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AP for all: Who benefits?
Expanding access to AP classes is supposed to help disadvantaged students prepare for college, but pass rates are very low. Is expanding AP helping low-income, minority students — or merely expanding...
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Dual-credit students do better in college
College students who took at least one college course in high school were more likely to earn a four-year degree than similar students who didn’t participate in dual-enrollment programs, concludes an...
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Defining college down
In The Wizard of Oz goes to college, Checker Finn peeks behind the curtain to find that the magical, transformative power of “college for all” is a fraud. In particular, he writes, sending poorly...
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Snobby private schools reject AP
Eight D.C.-area private schools are dropping Advanced Placement classes in favor of home-grown classes that will “allow for authentic engagement with the world and demonstrate respect for students’...
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When high hopes meet low expectations
Most students “meet the demands of their assignments” more than two-thirds of the time, yet demonstrate mastery of grade-level standards only 17 percent of the time, concludes TNTP’s new report, The...
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Write to think, think to write
Teach writing to teach thinking, writes Natalie Wexler, co-author of The Writing Revolution, in Forbes. Students can do everything asked of them in school, yet fail to meet grade-level standards,...
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How BASIS does it
History teacher Matthew Goldman leads his students in a pre-comp exam chant in February. Photo: Kate Stringer BASIS charters “captured four of the top five spots on U.S. News‘ annual ranking of...
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‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a Harlem middle school to a selective public high school five miles...
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Dual enrollment: Do it right
Dual enrollment is worth doing — but do it right, argues Rob Jenkins, who’s been a dual enrollment student, parent and college dean. Increasingly popular dual-enrollment programs let students earn...
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Foreign students: U.S. schools are easy
Two-thirds of foreign-exchange students say U.S. high schools are “much easier” than schools in their home countries, writes Tom Loveless in the new Brown Center report on education. Nearly two-thirds...
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