achievement gap

Duelling School Improvement Plans for De Blasio/Farina and NY Comm. Elia

Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City  Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with…

9 years ago

Success Academy’s Harlem West, Wadleigh Secondary, and De Blasio’s “Hodgepodge of Feel-Good Programs”

Nicholas Simmons, currently a vice principal at New York City’s Success Academy, tells his “tale of two schools, one building”…

9 years ago

Why the Current ESEA Draft Will Hurt Vulnerable Children

Last Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives passed an emasculated rewrite of NCLB called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA).…

9 years ago

NEA Approves New Anti-Accountability Items at the Expense of Disadvantaged Kids

The U.S. Congress is seemingly close to reauthorizing ESEA, now called the “Every Child Achieves Act.” But the current proposal…

9 years ago

Note to U.S. Congress on ESEA Rewrite: Take a Tip From the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

After I read the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage on Friday, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pending reauthorization…

9 years ago

QOD: Why We Need an ESEA that Includes Federal Intervention Requirements

John M. Bridgeland, a Cincinnati native and former White House staffer, explains why a newly-authorized ESEA must include a federal…

9 years ago

Camden Public Schools Update: District Will Expand Summer Programs

In response to concerns about summer retention – educationally-disadvantaged children lose up to three months of reading and math proficiency…

9 years ago

QOD: Star-Ledger Editorial Board Nails Those Who Would Sabotage PARCC Data

Read the whole thing, but here's the opening:Opposition to state testing comes from the far left and the far right.…

9 years ago

In Diegnan’s Anti-PARCC bills, Poor Children are just Collateral Damage

Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee,  has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…

10 years ago

A N.J. Teacher Makes an Immodest Proposal

Today Walter Bowne, an A.P. English teacher somewhere in South Jersey, argues in NJ Spotlight that PARCC test results should…

10 years ago