Achievement Gap

Bloomberg's Budget Cuts Could Cause Thousands Of New York City Parents To Quit Their Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Out-of-School Time, Ost, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Campaign for Children, After-School, Achievement Gap, Bloomberg Budget, Afterschool, New York Schools, Education News

Thousands of New York City parents said they'd quit their jobs or leave their children home alone if they lost access to childcare and after-school pr...

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Suspension Rates at a Washington School Drop 85%: Does Kindness Play a Role?

Michael Jascz | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: School Reform, Public Schools, Bullying Prevention, Achievement Gap, Education News

While suspension rates have risen steadily since the 1970s, there remains little to no evidence that zero-tolerance discipline policies such as suspension and expulsion improve school safety or student achievement.

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Report Digs Into Teachers' Feedback And Finds Bias Towards Minority Students

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Positive Feedback Bias, Grading, Psychology, Latino, Essay, Kent Harber, Feedback, Achievement Gap, Students, Teachers, Minority, African American, Education News

By: Robyn Gee When white teachers were asked to give feedback on C-minus level essays, they gave more positive feedback when they believed the studen...

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Closing the Gap Between College Aspiration and Success

Gaston Caperton | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Education, Higher Education, Achievement Gap, Paying for College, College Application Process, Low-Income Families, College Admissions, College Applications, Education News

College is more accessible than many families might think. They often overestimate the cost of college and underestimate the amount of financial aid that they are eligible to receive.

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Teachers' Lounge: The Bluff City Philosopher

Teach Plus | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Memphis, Teacher Appreciation Week, Education, Achievement Gap, Memphis City Schools, Schools, Teachers, Teaching, Students, Education News

Teachers need to wake up and realize every decision is a political decision. If teachers are not engaged, decisions will continue to be done to them rather than with them.

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A Modest Proposal

Rick Ayers | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: High School, Longer School Day, Teachers, Education Equity, Achievement Gap, High School Classes, Education Reform, Education News

Why do we force these kids to meet in class every day, five days a week, up to eight classes a day? Why do teachers have the responsibility to plan and execute lessons all day every day? Under these circumstances, work cannot be productive.

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Moving From Pilots to Policy

Richard Buery | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Child Poverty, Education, Poverty, The Children's Aid Society, New York City Poverty, Achievement Gap, Education News

On the evening of March 27, one of our community schools located in Washington Heights, a heavily Dominican neighborhood, hosted an event with potential implications for education policy in New York City and across the country.

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In Defense of Facing Reality

Diane Ravitch | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Child Poverty, Teach for America, Education Reform, Wendy Kopp, Achievement Gap, Education News

We will have to learn to hold two ideas at the same time: We must both reduce poverty and improve our schools. We cannot fix our schools without strengthening the teaching profession and addressing the social conditions that shape their outcomes.

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Officials Attack School-To-Prison Pipeline At School Justice Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Judith Kaye, Education, Russlynn Ali, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Education News

Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...

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Mind the Gap

Jacob Batchelor | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Social Mobility, Education, Public Schools Education, Occupy Walls Street, Achievement Gap Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Income Gap, Low Income Schools, College News

Only when we can break the achievement gap and bring even a semblance of equality to high and low-income area public schools can we truly say this country is one in which all are born with an equal chance in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

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Are Black Students In LA Racially Profiled?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: School Discipline, LA Black Students LA Men of Color, Latino Students LA, Achievement Gap, Black Suspension Rates, Los Angeles Men of Color, Los Angeles Suspension, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Education, Education Department, LA Suspension, Los Angeles Black Students, Education Disparity, Los Angeles News

If you are a black student in Los Angeles, you are almost three times more likely to be suspended than if you are any other race, according to new dat...

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The House Takes a Step Backwards in the Effort to Expand Learning for All Students

Jennifer Peck | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Community School, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Summer Learning, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Achievement Gap, After School, Expanded Learning Time, Esea, 21st CCLC, Education News

At a time when studies show a widening achievement gap between rich and poor students, we cannot afford to lose the 21st CCLC program.

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Black, Hispanic Students Face More Suspensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Education, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Education News

Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...

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The Case of the Disappearing Black and Latino Student: Race and the Achievement Gap at Smith College and Stuyvesant High School

Richard Buery | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: NYC Specialized High Schools, Smith College, Twitter, Stuyvesant High School, American Dream, Race, Facebook, Diversity, College Financial Aid, Admissions Test, Mayor Bloomberg, Education Reform, Achievement Gap, New York Times, New York News

Where you stand on the declining numbers of African Americans at Stuyvesant depends on your answers to two questions. First, do you think the small number of black students is a problem? Second, what should we do about it?

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Education Wake Up: An Important Case in Connecticut

Michael Evans | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Bridgeport, Educational Reform, Achievement Gap, Minority Achievement Gaps, Fairfield County, Education News

The indecisiveness that has been found in Connecticut has left a generation of youth facing one of the biggest uphill battles in the nation.

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Reinvigorating the American Dream: A Broader Bolder Approach to Tackling the Achievement Gap

Peter Edelman | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Education, Poverty, Education Reform, Public Education, Education Policy, Inequality, Achievement Gap, Education News

Addressing in-school factors in a vacuum -- with no consideration of the problems facing the wider community -- cannot do enough to improve educational outcomes or to narrow the achievement gap between low-income students and their wealthier peers.

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Teachers Are Ready for RESPECT

Teach Plus | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: US Department of Education, Poverty, Education, Achievement Gap, Project RESPECT, Education Reform, Teachers, Secretary Arne Duncan, Teaching, Education News

I love my job, but I often think about leaving the classroom. The lack of respect, low compensation and limited opportunities for professional growth that come with being a teacher make it difficult to stay.

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With You When You're Right: The Anti-Deficit View of Black Male Achievement

Tim King | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Education, Black Males, Graduation Rate, Black Male Student Success, Mentors, High School Drop Outs, Shaun R. Harper, Achievement Gap, Young Black Males, Minority Achievement Gap, Schools, Education News

The idea that strong relationships impact student success shouldn't be anything new to educators. But the implication -- that race, background and gender are not destiny, and that focused interventions produce tangible results -- is enormous.

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New Mexico Receives Waiver From No Child Left Behind

AP | By BARRY MASSEY | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Federal Education Law, Hanna Skandera, Teacher Evaluations, New Mexico Education, Barack Obama, New Mexico Schools, No Child Left Behind, Achievement Gap, New Mexico Nclb Waiver, Arne Duncan, No Child Left Behind Waivers, Education Law, Nclb, Nclb Waivers, New Mexico, Education News

SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico is becoming the latest state to free itself from an unpopular federal system of rating public schools. President Barack ...

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Using Value-Added Data To Evaluate Tennessee Teachers

| Sarah Garland | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Tennessee Schools, Teacher Evaluations, Tennessee, Achievement Gap, Teacher Assessment, Value Added Teachers, Hechinger Report, Tennessee Teacher Evaluations, Teachers, Tennessee Teachers, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Memphis Education Association, Value-Added, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the second in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comm...

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A New Charter School, A New Approach to Escaping Poverty

Richard Buery | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Community Schools, Morrisania, Charter Schools, Achievement Gap, New York City Department of Education, New York Times, New York City, South Bronx, The Children's Aid Society, New York News

Children's Aid will be expanding its reach and implementing best practices codified over many years when it opens its first community charter school in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx in August 2012.

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Money Must Follow the Student in Brown's School Funding Reform

John Affeldt | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: California Budget, Education, Funding Transparency, Weighted Funding, Achievement Gap, School Funding, Jerry Brown, School Reform, School Funding Disparity, School Finances, Accountability, Education News

No matter what you think of its merits, you have to admire Governor Jerry Brown's new finance reform proposal for its sheer boldness.

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Educators Alarmed: Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago

| Teresa Wiltz | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Video, Education, Minority Students Education, Minority Students, Black Students, Applied Research Center, Achievement Gap, Education Trust, Poor Students, Minority Student Achievement Gap, Latino Student Performance, Black Student Performance, Latino Students, Low-Income Students, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of America's Wire. WASHINGTON —- Educators are expressing alarm that the performance gap between minority and whi...

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Principal Under Fire For Reportedly Calling Students 'Less Smart'

Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Germantown High School, Tennessee Schools, School Report Cards, Video, Achievement Gap, Ted Horrell, Germantown Tennessee, Standardized Testing, State Report Card, Minority Achievement Gap, Education News

A Tennessee high school principal has issued a letter of apology to parents and students for saying the school's black students are "less smart," as e...

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Does More Money Mean Better Education?

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Chris Christie, Education Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts, Achievement Gap, School Funding, Bruce Baker, Student Performance, Student Outcomes, School Finances, Class Sizes, Education Funding, School Improvement, Rick Perry, School Money, Teacher Layoffs, Andrew Cuomo, School Overcrowding, Smaller Class Sizes, Video, School Funding Distribution, Small Class Sizes, Money for Education, Education Money, Standardized Testing, Shanker Institute, School Budget Cuts, Education Reform, Albert Shanker Institute, Money for Schools, Education News

Amid major slashes to public funding, political leaders have cited assertions that money doesn't affect student learning to sometimes justify cutting ...

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