Abandoning the Common Core Is Taking the Easy Way Out
This post originally appeared at the Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog.While the New York State United Teachers and the National Education Association have wit…
Achievement and Opportunity in America: Where Are We? What Can We Do?
Kati HaycockNew Mexico Public Education Department and The New Mexico Association of School Business OfficialsAlbuquerque, N.M. Presented: March 27,…
Hard-Won Lessons From an Improving School District
In the past 10 years I have written two books and co-written a third about the role schools have…
Kudos — and Cautions — on the New CRDC Data
Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) cast new light on the shameful fact…
Are Most Teachers Really in Their First Year?
“Back (in the late 1980s), the most common teacher in America was a 15-year veteran; two decades later, she…
Falling Out of the Lead: Tracking High-Achievers Through High School and Beyond
Marni Bromberg and Christina TheokasYoung Education Professionals (YEP) DC Conference Presented: March 22, 2014 Related Content: Closing the Gaps…
Echoing Our Readers Back
When we released “The Writing on The Hall,” the first installment of our new Echoes From the Gap series,…
What’s Homework For?
Reading about a recent survey on homework reminded of my own struggles as a parent standing over my kids…
Equity and Equality Are Not Equal
There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be…
College Board Aims to Increase Equity, But Can’t Do It Alone
By moving away from obscure vocabulary lists and a scattered assortment of math topics, the College Board’s new SAT…
Achievement and Opportunity in America: Where Are We? What Can We Do?
Kati HaycockLeadership New MexicoArtesia, NM Presented: March 7, 2014 …
Update on the Elementary and Secondary Education Flexibility Act
Daria Hall and Iris Maria ChavezNELI Policy Institute on School Governance Presented: March 7, 2014 …
Fast Fact: Kids Missing Out on School Breakfast
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Bring Breakfast to the Classroom
The national School Breakfast program still only reaches about half of low-income students who could benefit from starting their…
Racing Toward Equity
One of the signature items in this week’s fiscal year 2015 education budget is the Race to the Top–Equity…
Right to Play
When a Norwegian athlete visited war-torn Eritrea, he saw kids tie up a long-sleeved shirt and kick it around…
Higher Participation in School Breakfast Goal of New Alliance
WASHINGTON (March 4, 2014) - Skipping breakfast leaves children at an academic disadvantage. Students experiencing hunger have slower memory recall,…
The Lessons Students Learn From Suspension
“Hopefully, he will learn his lesson this time.”And with the administrator’s words, the meeting was over. This would mark…
Pushing for a Stronger, More Diverse Teaching Workforce
While there have been dozens of reports on how teacher education programs should change, there has been no nationwide…
Adjusting to the Common Core
During the summer of 2012, Manuel Gatica, the math department chair at a high-poverty middle school in Arizona, went…