Is High Stakes Testing the Best Way to Improve Educational Performance Among Students of Color and Students Living in Poverty?
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, there has been a concerted effort to reduce gaps in educational performance by race and class by promoting regular testing in all grades and subjects and rating schools and teachers on the basis those tests. As a consequence of such policies, thousands of public schools in low income neighborhoods and communities of color have been closed, tens o
Time to Close the GATES on an Ugly Chapter in American Education History.
When historians review the last 20 years, the rise of Bill Gates to the position of education power broker supreme and the most important single person shaping public education policy in the US will be one of the most curious phenomena they study. Here is a man who never taught a day in his life and never attended public school who presumes to know how to reshape public education in the United Sta
3-22-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week
With A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekHip Hop Commentary on the Prison System: An Unrecognized Antecedent to" The New Jim Crow You ain't gotta be locked up to be in prisonLook how we livin, thirty thousand niggas a dayUp in the bing, standard routineThey put us in a box just like our life on the blockDead Prez “Behind Enemy Lines” When Michelle Alexander published T