Equity
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Using Year-Round Schools to Close the Achievement Gap
In comparison to children from low-income and minority groups, children belonging to middle-class families enjoy more learning opportunities even during school breaks. Thus, extended ... -
Diverse Conversations: The Benefits of an Online Education
Over the past decade, the number of online colleges and universities has grown exponentially. This has led to many debates over the efficacy and ... -
3 Important Themes of American Culture that Influence Our Schools
School culture can be defined as the shared beliefs, traditions, and behaviors within the school community. Considering the diverse nature of today’s society, it ... -
Diverse Conversations: What it is Like Being the First Female College President
For most of American history, the college/university presidency could be described as an “all boys club,” however, over the last 3 decades this has ... -
Will the pending ESEA actually move funding backward?
By Derek Black of Law Professor Blogs Network Last week, Nora Gordon focused on one of the more technical aspects of the pending Senate ... -
Education crisis extends across the United States
The U.S. Education Department reports that the high school graduation rate is at an all time high at 80 percent. Four out of five ... -
Study: Detroit crime rate would drop with early childhood investment
By putting more money into early childhood education in Detroit, the crime rate would go down, according to a recent study. Jose Diaz of ... -
#BlackLivesMatter and the myth of a postracial America
David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine The prevailing response from white politicians such as GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush to #BlackLivesMatter has been ... -
The Call to Teach: Urban Legends
Each day 8,000 American students drop out of high school. Over the course of a year, that amounts to 3 million total students who ... -
Multicultural recruiting: What colleges do it best?
By Matthew Lynch At least on paper, America’s colleges and universities are interested in creating a diverse student population. Though not perfect in practice, ...
