Every child can learn. Even if their parents have just arrived to this country.
Especially if they are offering just one solution to the Latino achievement gap. Read more in my latest piece in The American Spectator.
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I take a look at the Schott Foundation’s report on black males and offer reminders that the achievement gap is not just one of race. All males, especially black and white males, are failing badly, with major consequences for America’s economy and society. It will take the reform of [...]
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Seven years ago, Sacramento High School was considered a dropout factory before the term was actually coined. Although 85 percent of its students overall from its original Class of 2003 were promoted from 9th to 12th grade, that number is deceiving: Just 49 percent of Sacto’s black and Latino freshmen earned enough credits to make [...]
On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, I offer some important steps towards recruiting and developing more high-quality teachers. Eliminating tenure, eliminating seniority-based benefits and embracing the use of student performance data — along with moves such as the dismissal of 241 poor-performing teachers last week by D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee — are important [...]
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And no, I don’t mean the occasional trip to observe a high-achieving charter school or even to watch Geoffrey Canada and Steve Barr do their respective work at the grassroots level. Save for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (which does authorize charter schools in Ohio) and some work by the Education Trust, school reformers in [...]
As Research Consultant for the Schott Foundation for Public Education, Michael Holzman has helped shed light on the impact of low teacher quality and systemic academic failure on the educational and economic prospects of young black men. Through his research, Holzman and Schott have done plenty to show in numbers the depths of the nation’s [...]
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