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Closing the excellence gap
Learning in the Fast Lane looks at an effort to expand Advanced Placement opportunities to low-income and minority students in Montgomery County, Maryland. The large district includes wealthy, mostly...
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From ‘Ivanhoe’ to ‘Artemis Fowl’
While college ambitions are on the rise, 12th-grade reading scores are falling, writes Annie Holmquist on Intellectual Takeout. Students aren’t reading challenging books in high school, she writes,...
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Schools put college-prep label on remedial courses
Illinois high schools have cut remedial classes and placed most students in a “general” college-prep track that doesn’t prepare graduates for college, concludes a Chicago Tribune analysis of the class...
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Why teachers don’t use rigorous curricula
Giving teachers access to rigorous, high-quality, standards-aligned curricula won’t improve achievement, writes David Steiner, who directs the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. That’s...
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Left-behind students need challenge and support
Closing achievement gaps requires exposing students to rigorous grade-level work and to personalized learning that meets them where they are, writes Britt Neuhaus of the Overdeck Family Foundation on...
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We chose our values over test scores
The library at Chicago’s Lane Tech High features art deco artwork. Getting your child into a selective public school in Chicago is a “rat race,” writes Cassandra Kaczocha in Chicago Unheard. Her...
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Gifted in Seattle: Keep or scrap special programs?
“Advanced learning” is under fire in Seattle, reports Katie Herzog in The Stranger. Superintendent Denise Juneau has proposed dismantling what’s known as the Highly Capable Cohort (HCC). A group called...
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Schools put college-prep label on remedial courses
Illinois high schools have cut remedial classes and placed most students in a “general” college-prep track that doesn’t prepare graduates for college, concludes a Chicago Tribune analysis of the class...
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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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Dual credit booms, but what about rigor?
Dual credit — high school students taking college courses for credit — is booming, writes Kelly Field in Education Next. Between 2002-3 and 2010-11, the number of high school students taking college...
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Students: I’m not prepared
When school went remote in the spring, students were given more assignments, but little that was new or challenging, 60 percent of students said in Cognia’s Upended Learning survey. Nearly all teachers...
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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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Grades lie, students fail
Grade inflation tells dangerous lies to students, write Steven Birnholz and Eric Frey, both of the Florida Council of 100, on Fordham’s site. Students who see B’s and C’s on their report card think...
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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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Making math easier isn’t ‘equity’
Andrew Rotherham fears that Virginia’s new math pathways will erode equity instead of advancing it. It’s hard to argue with helping more students see themselves in math and as math users. And the idea...
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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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