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 […]
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Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Sen. Warren Calls For “Aggressive Action” On College Accreditor
In her letter to the US Department of Education on Thursday Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren urged federal education officials to “take strong, aggressive action to hold [the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools] accountable for its dismal record of failure.”
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Data Show International Baccalaureate (IB) Classes Help a Third of Low-Income Students in IB Schools
Echoes AP research findings
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
The Orlando Shooting: Can Educating the Public Keep LGBTQ Youth Safe?
It’s more urgent now than ever.
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, K-12
Test Prep Doesn’t Have to Be a Waste of Time
In the popular imagination, testing season in American public schools is a time of anxiety, tension, and boredom for students and teachers alike; a time when learning stops and “drill and kill” test prep begins. But if you had walked into my classroom this time last year, you’d have witnessed something a bit different: A […]
Posted inThe Grade
Clustering Education Stories Doesn’t Always Work Best
Above: Overview of 12 Slate stories from “Tomorrow’s Test” series this week. These past few weeks and months have included a number of ambitious, multipart education series: *The WNYC series “Integration 2.0” includes 10 segments so far, depending on how you count them. *The Slate series “Tomorrow’s Test” includes 12 segments over the course of this […]
Posted inThe Grade
Why Some Parents Choose a Segregated School
This WNYC video short (above) shows NYT writer Nikole Hannah-Jones and her husband taking their daughter to a segregated school in Brooklyn. Read the accompanying article by WNYC’s Rebecca Carroll here, or the lengthy Hannah-Jones NYT piece about the decision she and her husband made and the controversy over rezoning the school to give wealthier white kids access […]
Posted inEducation, July/August 2010, Magazine
Down and Out In Portland, Oregon
A city with all the advantages for keeping kids in school, and nothing to show for it.
Posted inJuly/August 2010, Magazine
How Philadelphia Kept More Kids In School
After decades of effort, a decade of progress.
