Increasing financial support for children and their families should be the starting point.
education reform
Posted inThe Grade
EdReporters Ignore Fast-Changing Suburbs & Silence Minority Voices, Says CUNY Prof
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy (far left) first came to my attention at this spring’s Education Writers Association national conference in Boston, where he served as a panelist talking about school integration with the NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, Century’s Rick Kahlenberg, and Education Post’s Chris Stewart. He’s an Associate Professor in Sociology & Black Studies at The City College […]
Posted inEducation, K-12
Putting Children First in Teacher Licensing
Why some advocates say teacher licensure structures should be guided by developmental science, not the needs of district bureaucracies
Posted inEducation, K-12
A Turnaround High School’s Transformative Principal Walks Away
Shabazz High School in Newark goes forward with a new leader.
Posted inEducation
Questioning Affluent Parents’ School Choices
One of the biggest takeaways from the NYT Sunday Magazine article Choosing A School For My Daughter is how unusual it seems to be for parents with other choices to send their children to schools with lower test scores or higher rates of segregation — and how relatively little attention has been paid in the media […]
Posted inEducation, K-12
Customized Math Lessons Could Help Students Learn More, Research Says
A math program that offers computer-based, bespoke lessons for students could, with teacher support, help them learn more math, according to a study released last week. The report, from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that […]
Posted inEducation, June/July/August 2015, K-12, Magazine
How New Orleans Made Charter Schools Work
Since Katrina, the Crescent City’s schools have produced what some experts believe to be the most rapid academic improvement in American history—and created a reform model other cities are trying.
Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, November/December 2014
The Diploma Deficit
The problem is not college debt, it’s low graduation rates. Fix that, and you fix the economy.
Posted inBooks, Education, January/February 2013, K-12, Magazine
Class No Longer Dismissed
Why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
Posted inEducation
Special Report: The Next Big Test
A new wave of school reform is about to break. Will it change classrooms for the better?
