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Minority Achievement Gaps

Texas Education Chief Considers Rating Schools On Minority Progress

Posted 11.18.2012 | Home

Texas’ new education commissioner Michael Williams is considering a new system for rating school success that would take into account how well distr...

NCLB Waivers: Closing Achievement Gap Requires Policy Overhaul, Not Tweaks

Kate Casas | Posted 12.25.2012 | Home
Kate Casas

What we should have learned from No Child Left Behind is that you can set a goal of 100 percent proficiency for all students, but if you don't have the policies to support that goal, you are going to fall far short.

12 Things You Need To Know About The Economy And Education

Posted 09.27.2012 | Home

A paper for The Hamilton Project analyzes the associations between education and various outcomes, highlighting a dozen economic facts on the state of...

The Surprising Food A Portland School Principal Has Deemed Racially Charged

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 09.21.2012 | Home

A lunchtime staple of students for years, the peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered one of the more popular items found in the sack lun...

Education Wake Up: An Important Case in Connecticut

Michael Evans | Posted 08.22.2012 | Home
Michael Evans

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

Would Dr. King Agree With 'No Child Left Behind?'

Brian Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Brian Jones

The approach of a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King provides an opportunity to reflect on one of the hot topics in education reform today: the racial achievement gap.

Crashing Into a Low Bar

Alan Gottlieb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Alan Gottlieb

This new report shows that students further down the ladder lack the skills to do, well, much of anything beyond manual labor.

Young Men Earn Fewer College Degrees: Report

Posted 05.25.2011 | College

A new report on minority achievement in higher education found that young men are graduating at lower rates than in previous generations. According ...