CTA cites QEIA’s big impact on schools - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Over the past three years, API scores have increased significantly for the bottom 20 percent of California schools, despite ongoing budget cuts. But they’ve risen even higher overall in those lower-decile schools that have gotten their share of a seven-year, $3 billion program that the California Teachers Association exacted in a court settlement with Gov. [...]
School performance depends on close attention to social equity - by Gary Ravani
(Or, As They Say In Finland: “koulumenestys riippuu huomiota sosiaaliseen pääomaan.”) Let us recall that seminal document in the U.S. school reform movement, “A Nation At Risk.” Released in 1983, it reflected the Cold War paranoia of the time with breathless rhetoric: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational [...]