This week’s Freakonomics blog says: “A disheartening new study by Catherine Riegle-Crumb and Melissa Humphries finds that teachers discount the math skills of white females, even when girls’ grades and test scores indicate a comparable level of skill.” The blog post is here, and the research paper, Exploring Bias in Math Teachers’ Perceptions of Students’ [...]
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April 15th, 2012
In this Washington Post opinion column, – I went to some of D.C.’s better schools. I was still unprepared for college. — Georgetown University freshman Darryl Robinson talks candidly about how his public charter school experience failed him in some crucial ways. Here’s an excerpt: Entering my freshman year at Georgetown University, I should [...] April 14th, 2012
The practice of basing entry into advanced learning programs on a single aptitude test — taken by pre-kindergartners – creates very high stakes, and broadens the opportunity gap between parents who can afford expensive tutoring, and those who can’t. Karson Yiu and Edward Lovett report on this phenomenon in “Parents Spend Thousands on Test-Prep to Get Kids into ‘Gifted’ [...] April 11th, 2012
Chicago’s school district 181 grapples with program changes, including changes to it’s offerings for advanced learners, and including offering Algebra to more 8th graders. Jane Michaels wrote about it in the Chicago Sun Times’ Clarendon Hill news: “District 181 gifted program changes come under fire”. Here’s an excerpt: “I don’t know of any system that [...] April 4th, 2012
With last night’s voting in of the Cambridge Public School’s annual budget, it became official that the district will hire an Academic Challenge and Enrichment Support Program Manager to oversee support and services for advanced learners in grades K-8. The new job position was created after months of advocacy by parents from CALA, the Cambridge [...] |
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