In a blog I wrote in April, I explored whether there was a positive response to doubters who may like the concept of diverse public magnet schools, but who wonder who’s going to develop such schools and who if they would attract socioeconomically-diverse students across district lines. The conclusion was Yes—a number of such opportunities …
Parents countywide say ‘Yes’ to diverse cross-district magnet schools Read More »
(Guest Blogger) It goes by many names—summer melt, summer slide, summer slump—but no matter what you call it, the tendency for students to lose academic skills over the summer vacation is an undeniable problem. What’s worse, it’s a problem that disproportionately affects children of low socioeconomic status. Take reading, for example. In one local high …
Today’s blog comes to us thanks to an email blast from retired School Without Walls principal Dan Drmacich, who sent us a May 4 blogpost by New York City education reformer Diane Ravitch, who referenced a response from a South Carolina professor to an April 29 New York Times story. Blogging on blogs. But this …
Focus on the ‘norms’ not the educational outliers Read More »
Unlike every fresh Donal Trump insult, the push to re-integrate American schools has not gone viral. Yet. Most Rochesterians, like most Americans, have no idea that in numerous think tanks, state houses, and at the U.S. Department of Education, integration—along socioeconomic lines—is a very hot topic. Slowly, policy is catching up to the research. At …
The national trend toward integration is gathering momentum Read More »
