The Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of black students met state standards in the 2010 math tests. This is compared with 75% of white studen... Read more...
The standards-based education reform movement calls school change “the civil rights issue of our time.” But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from New York to Oakland, Calif., converged on Washington Tuesday to tell U.S. Secretary of Ed... Read more...
After murders in Black communites, reading and math scores for Black students go down he Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of... Read more...
New York City's Community School Districts are being redlined: the practice of systemically denying resources to poor and minority neighborhoods. According to a new report by the Schott Foundation for Public Education, because of New York City's policies and practices, the c... Read more...