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Achievement Gap

My New Year's Resolution to all "At Risk" Children

Steve Larosiliere | Posted 01.06.2010 | Impact

Read More: National Mentoring Month, Youth Development, Stoked Mentoring, Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Social Innovation, Mayor Bloomberg, No Child Left Behind, Surfing, Mentoring, President Obama, Race to the Top, Achievement Gap, Mayor Villaraigosa, Snowboarding, Los Angeles, New York City Department of Education, At-Risk Youth, Lausd, High Schools, Steve Larosiliere, Social Entrepreneur, Education Reform, Skateboarding, Cory Booker, Impact News
Steve Larosiliere

As a youth advocate, nonprofit leader and mentor, I'm making new resolutions for at-risk youth. I resolve to not just help the easy children, not to give up on children, and to care about their future.

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Black-White Graduation Gap INCREASED Among College Football Players

AP | ANTONIO GONZALEZ | Posted 12.07.2009 | Sports

Read More: College Football Education, Black White Educational Gap, Graduation Gap, College Football, Achievement Gap, Black White Graduation Gap, Sports News

ORLANDO, Fla. — The disparity between graduation rates for white and black college football players at schools headed to bowl games grew slightl...

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The Wall Street Journal on Education: Lies, Myths, and Yellow Journalism

Eric Tipler | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, KIPP Charter Schools, Ford Foundation, Education, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Teach for America, Achievement Gap, Wall Street Journal, Gates Foundation, Media News
Eric Tipler

Earlier this month, the Ford Foundation announced it was giving $100 million to improve urban schools, a fantastic announcement that the Journal lambasted with a misleading editorial.

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Your Best Employees In 2025 Are Finger Painting Today

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

Read More: Education, Senate-Health-Education-Labor-and-Pensions-Committee, Achievement Gap, School Reform, Michael Bennet, Early Childhood Education, Education Reform, Early Learning Challenge Fund, Kindergarten, Education News, Denver News
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.

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Two Wands

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Minority Underachievement, Underachievement, Education, Minority Groups, Education Policy, US Census, Achievement Gap, Home News
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.

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Arne Duncan Has Become an Embarrassment

Leonie Haimson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Arne Duncan, Mayor Bloomberg, Graduation Rates, Achievement Gap, Rupert Murdoch, Embarassment, Naep, Ny Post, Home News
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.

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Education Reform's Big Stake

Marc Lampkin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Failing, Education, Achievement Gap, Reform, Minority, Teacher, Status Quo, Union, Classroom, Lampkin, Politics News
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.

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

Trey Ellis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Effect, Obama, Mike Tomlin, Superbowl, Achievement Gap, Black Intellectuals, Standardize Tests, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Obama Black Children, Black Liberation Movement, Politics News
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.

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No Child Left Behind Redux

Dr. Susan Neuman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Achievement Gap, Politics News
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 ...

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The Looming Battle on Education Reform

David Whitman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Joel Klein, School Reform, Al Sharpton, Arne Duncan, Obama and Schools, Education Equality Project, Broader Bolder Alliance, Achievement Gap, Home News
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...

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

Dan Brown | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, New York City Department of Education, John McCain, New York Sun, Michael Bloomberg, Achievement Gap, Bloomberg, Joel Klein, High-Stakes Testing, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Green, Politics News
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 ...

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Who Says the Boy Crisis Is Over?

Peg Tyre | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Learning Disorders, Achievement Gap, Boys and Girls Learn Differently, Parenting, Living News
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.

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