Chancellor Klein and Rev. Al on Closing the Achievement Gap
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under Blogroll, achievement gap, al sharpton, education equality project, education reform, graduation rates, joel klein, quotes | Leave a Comment
Chancellor Klein joined Reverend Al Sharpton this week to discuss efforts to close the racial achievement gap separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers.
“We cannot continue to accept that barely half of the country’s black and Hispanic students are graduating from high school, or that white children can read at levels [...]
Big city “graduation rates”
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under graduation rates, research | Leave a Comment
Another reason educational inequity is the greatest injustice of our time:
The likelihood that a ninth-grader in one of the nation’s biggest cities will clutch a diploma four years later amounts to a coin toss — not much better than a 50-50 chance, new research finds.
Cross into the suburbs, and the odds improve dramatically.
The findings, which [...]
32% in Baseball is great, but for a student (or a school): Not so much
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under graduation rates, research | Leave a Comment
More alarming news about New York City’s graduation rates.
+ 32% of black males graduated from NYC’s high schools on schedule in 2006
+ 57% of white males graduated on time
+ Both percentages are unacceptable, but the discrepancy is yet another example of educational inequities
+ New York City public schools ranked 54th out of 63 of the [...]
