Achievement Gap

Your Best Employees In 2025 Are Finger Painting Today

Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien | Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver


Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien

It might take 15 years for today's finger painters to enter the workforce, but expanding early childhood education is an investment in the competitiveness of our county.

Two Wands

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home


Gov. Dick Lamm

I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification -- education, hard work, success, and ambition -- are those groups that succeed, regardless of discrimination.

Arne Duncan Has Become an Embarrassment

Leonie Haimson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home


Leonie Haimson

It's time for Obama to his appointee Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, in, before he causes yet further embarrassment to his administration.

Education Reform's Big Stake

Marc Lampkin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics


Marc Lampkin

As we approach the 55th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the reality is there are still great inequities in the quality of education delivered to students.

The Obama Effect, the Super Bowl and the Revenge of the Black Nerd

Trey Ellis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics


Trey Ellis

I'm hoping that we're finally entering into an era that I've been dreaming of my entire life: the rise of the bookish black.

No Child Left Behind Redux

Dr. Susan Neuman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics


Dr. Susan Neuman

New York City School Superintendent Joel Klein and Al Sharpton, a curious coupling to be sure, argue in their 1/1/2/09 Op-ed piece in the Wall Street ...

The Looming Battle on Education Reform

David Whitman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Home


David Whitman

Narrowing the racial achievement gap remains one of Barack Obama's top priorities, even in the midst of the nation's economic crisis. Yet for all of t...

Exporting NYC's Education "Miracle": Buyer Beware!

Dan Brown | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics


Dan Brown

Since his election in 2001, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made narrowing the white-minority achievement gap in New York City his signature issue. After ...

Who Says the Boy Crisis Is Over?

Peg Tyre | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living


Peg Tyre

A new report alleging the boy crisis is over fails to mention is that when you compare the achievement of boys and girls from similar backgrounds, girls outperform boys by a wide margin.