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• Closing the Gap

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  We’ve blogged several times about Roland Fryer’s research on education and the black-white achievement gap. Now Fryer thinks he has identified one system that successfully closes the gap. His new working paper, with co-author Will Dobbie, analyzes both the high-quality charter schools and the comprehensive ...
  14 hours ago

• Closing the Gap

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  We’ve blogged several times about Roland Fryer’s research on education and the black-white achievement gap. Now Fryer thinks he has identified one system that successfully closes the gap. His new working paper, with co-author Will Dobbie, analyzes both the high-quality charter schools and the comprehensive ...
  14 hours ago

• Gerald Bracey’s Last Testament

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  You had to know that if any education commenter could make himself heard from beyond the grave, it would be Gerald Bracey.  He was working on his 18th annual Report on the Condition of Public Education when he passed away last month.  It’s out today.  It focuses on three specific reform ideas:  Mayoral control ...
  2 days ago

• Reading Gaining Speed as Fed Priority?

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 416
  With all of the talk about RttT, school turnarounds, and the like, we havent spent much time at all talking about core instructional issues.  As many schools continue to struggle reaching AYP and demonstrating the sort of student achievement we all expect (and that the federal law still demands), we just havent been ...
  5 days ago

• What tests may really be measuring

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 518
  90% African-American children on food stamps, lack Vitamin D Im no statistician, but I was taken by the statistical correlation I found in two recent studies. One released Monday in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reveals that half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black ...
  1 week ago

• In Search of 21st Century Joe Clarks

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 416
  When Im flipping through the cable stations late at night, unable to sleep because something or another has my mind going a thousand miles an hour, there are a number of movies for which I will always stop and watch.  Braveheart, Thank You For Smoking, the original All the Kings Men, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, Roadhouse, ...
  1 week ago

• "Disrupting" High School Failure

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 416
  Can you legislate graduation rates?  Today, the Washington Post editorial board called on the state of Maryland to raise the compulsory age for school attendance, essentially using state law to require students to stay in Maryland high schools until the age of 18 (it is 16 now).  The move, following on the heels of ...
  1 week ago

• Curriculum for Democracy

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 131
  Im an unabashed fan of E.D Hirsch. Sol Stern does a tremendous job of summarizing Hirshs contributions to the field of education in his article in the Autumn 2009 City Journal entitled E.D. Hirshs Curriculum for Democracy . Stern follows Hirshs academic path from chemistry student to Yale graduate school to English ...
  1 week ago

• The Great White Whale of Teacher Quality

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 416
  At the heart of EdSec Arne Duncans remarks at Teachers College last week has his new never-ending pursuit of the illusive "teacher quality."  Clearly, the search means more than the "highly qualified teacher" definition currently found in NCLB.  More than the qualities that currently win one additional monies ...
  2 weeks ago

• 48% of Dallas 5th graders not up to the challenge

  
  JAMES EDWARDS — Authority: 521
  -Yes, you read that right. Almost half of all 5th graders in Dallas aren’t skilled enough to do 5th grade work. That’s the official number; the real one is probably much higher. And, naturally, not once does the article mention the real reason so many Dallas 5th graders aren’t smart enough for [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Addressing roots of achievement gap, a sticky, complex endeavor

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 127
  It was a completely inappropriate outburst, but it may be one of the most important questions ever asked about the achievement gap: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” a frustrated English teacher, Patrick Welsh, asked his class of African-American seniors who had just flunked yet another ...
  3 weeks ago

• From the Mouths of TFAers

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 416
  When Eduflack was a very green Capitol Hill staffer, a wise veteran imparted some basic advice that I have not forgotten now going on almost two decades.  Never talk in an elevator.  Capitol Hill is one of those places where people (the unelected, of course) like to make themselves seem far more important than they ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday Morning Open Thread

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 140
  Whats up? Like I mentioned in yesterdays midday coffee break, I will be out of town from tomorrow until Wednesday, resuming our regular posting schedule on Thursday. Our fierce Erika and Gloria will be updating the site at least once a day. What else is on my mind? Oprah Winfrey is slated to interview Sarah ...
  3 weeks ago

• Schools can’t close parenting gap

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 615
  The racial achievement gap reflects a parenting gap , writes teacher Patrick Welsh in the Washington Post. Most of his black students — except for the immigrants — don’t have two parents at home pushing them to work hard. “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lead exposure in early childhood linked to lower test scores

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): A new study has revealed that exposure to lead in early childhood might affect kids’ performance in school. The research team from Duke University and North Carolina Central University showed that exposure to lead contributes to lower performances on end-of-grade (EOG) reading tests among ...
  3 weeks ago

• Girl Power: Mining The Georgia NAEP Scores For Achievement Gaps

  
  File Cabinet — Authority: 91
  Georgia Department of Education Superintendent Cathy Cox had this to say about Georgia students performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress: "This is the first evidence we have that the GPS is helping our students be more competitive at the national level. I am confident this is just the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Results Are In: The Nation’s 2009 Report Card for Mathematics

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The NAEP released the 2009 Nation’s Report Card for Mathematics yesterday, and the results are pretty much the same as they were in 2007. More than 168,000 fourth-graders and 161,000 eighth-graders across the country participated in the assessment, responding to questions about number properties and operations; ...
  3 weeks ago

• Our schools are leaving too many minority children behind

  
  North Star Liberty — Authority: 405
  By Brian W. Grogan Republicans and conservatives need to do a better job communicating to the voters that the Republican Party is really the education party. Lets face it: over the last forty years, the Democrat leadership has enacted and steered education policy that has produced a slow decline in academic ...
  4 weeks ago

• Small classes help infants to do better in later grades

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) Small classes in elementary school can give infants the best chance to succeed in later grades, a new study says.The study by Spyros Konstantopoulos, associate professor of education, Michigan State University (MSU), is the first to examine the effects of class size over a sustained period ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Neglected Field Trip & and Bridging the Achievement Gap

  
  tweenteacher.com — Authority: 106
  When I think of my advanced students, a key element that sets them apart from their lesser-achieving peers are their life experiences, the education that they are getting in their off-time outside of school.(...) Read the rest of The Neglected Field Trip & and Bridging the Achievement Gap (1,270 words) © ...
  4 weeks ago

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