Entries for the 'The Mission is Proficiency' Category

Trish Williams and Michael Kirst report on key findings from their study of California middle schools in this excellent, detailed article.  They ...

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Mark Schneider writes for Education Week about the discrepancies between some states' reported proficiency rates and their scores as tested by the NAE...

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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert details Deborah Kenny's expectations for the teachers and students in her three successful Harlem charter s...

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The Associated Press reports that "President Barack Obama, who is spending billions of dollars to overhaul the U.S. public education system, says ther...

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Karin Chenoweth, author of It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, writes for The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing about the poss...

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Relatively small improvements in the skills of a nation’s workforce can have a big effect on its future economic well-being, concludes a new internati...

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The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorit...

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In this must-read article from The New York Times, Benedict Carey profiles an early education math program in which students from low-income communiti...

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New York Times Columnist Bob Herbert writes that "the greatest national security crisis in the United States is education."   To help address the...

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A new report, billed as one of the most comprehensive studies to date of how low-income and minority students fare in college, shows a wide gap in gra...

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