This weekend, the Chicago Teachers Union tweeted that efforts to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” The union later deleted the tweet after receiving a flood of criticism for the unsubstantiated — and frankly outlandish — claim, admitting that it is a “complex issue” that “requires nuance and...
A Union County teacher recently declared, “This might be rude, but I don’t care about parent child care issues. That should not be a valid reason for opening schools. #ihave3” Of the 367 comments to that Facebook post, a sizable majority agreed. “It’s time to hold parents accountable for raising the children they decided to...
Waiting. That’s what we do in North Carolina these days. We wait. Wait is one of the Cooper administration’s three Ws, somewhere between wash and wear. No ironing needed. We wait in lines, six feet between us and anybody else. But mostly we wait for the governor and his staff to tell us when it’s...
Call it high-grade high school. When it comes to letter-grade earning power, high-schoolers are rich indeed. Grade inflation is real and it’s inequitable, padding the GPAs of wealthier students faster than others. Such are the findings of a Fordham Institute study that tracked grades in North Carolina public schools for over a decade. Increasingly, A...
Which public school systems exhibit the greatest success in helping disadvantaged students achieve proficiency?
RALEIGH -- Newly released data from the National Center for Education Statistics indicate we have made some notable strides toward racial parity, nationally and in selected states. However, we have miles still to go, especially in North Carolina.
Numerous interventions – affecting law and policy – have targeted America’s entrenched achievement gap. Yet despite these efforts, poor, minority students still lag far behind their more affluent, white peers.
WASHINGTON, DC — "Growth and Disparity: A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction 1995-2004," is a new study that finds that the nation's school districts have spent hundreds of billions on construction. Has the money gone where it will do the most help?
More than 50 years have passed since Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling ordering the desegregation of public schools, stating, “All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.”
TEMPE, AZ — Recent policy studies have tried to identify "high-flying" schools -- schools that help students reach very high levels of achievement, despite significant disadvantages. A new policy brief by Arizona State University demonstrates some problems.
WASHINGTON, DC — One year after the nation’s governors pledged to improve American high schools, most states have made progress in raising achievement in the elementary grades, but secondary schools still struggle to close gaps.
