Future depends on how we support single working mothers
May 17, 2009 Researcher Gary Orfield argues for more societal support for single working mothers. Report here. PR sheet here.
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Justice Center: Larger percentage of students failing
May 1, 2009 Today’s article from the N.C. Justice Center is a republication of a Legislative Bulletin from April 7 noting an increase in the percentage of students failing end-of-grade reading and math tests between 2001 and 2007-8. The article urges stronger intervention. Posting of this article prompted reader S.S. to write: “While I certainly agree with Read More …
UCLA study argues high-stakes tests don’t work
April 22, 2009 Today’s study on “Why High-Stakes Accountability Sounds Good But Doesn’t Work” argues that sanctions under No Child Left Behind are tied to failures to achieve what are really some fairly low expectations. With such low expectations in play – the bar set rather low – the study argues that schools will learn to Read More …
This fall, more high-poverty elementaries
April 10, 2009 More CMS schools will open this fall with high-poverty student populations.
How can we fix what we say we don’t understand?
April 8, 2009 When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Chairperson Molly Griffin addressed the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum Tuesday morning, she said the board was focusing all its energy on closing the achievement gap. Fair enough. But then there was this exchange: Q. What causes the gap? A. “That is a great question. I think there Read More …
Results of CMS’ first magnet school lottery
Feb. 28, 2009 The sheets below are downloadable here in a single PDF file.
2 NC districts compared
Feb. 10, 2009 A front-page spread in the New& Observer Sunday was headlined “Whose schools work better?” The pair of stories focus on how Wake and Mecklenburg have taken different roads toward goals of of giving all children a quality education. The two counties desegregated, but at slightly different times and under very different circumstances. Read More …
Assignment proposal 1999 – bad then, worse now
Feb. 9, 2009 The economic downturn has county and school budgets under stress. Supt. Peter Gorman is talking about merging failing schools, about eliminating hundreds of teachers, raising class size, probably cutting the extra support money going into high-needs schools. And back in 1999, when the first elements of the current resegregative assignment plan first Read More …
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February 8, 2009 Whose schools work better? Wake disperses low-income students with busing; Charlotte gives high-poverty schools extra money T. Keung Hui, Staff Writer North Carolina’s two largest school systems have taken vastly different approaches to two thorny issues — student reassignment and educating low-income students with hefty academic deficiencies. Wake County, the state’s largest Read More …
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The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) February 8, 2009 Charlotte school loses students, active parents Ann Doss Helms, The Charlotte Observer CHARLOTTE — In the heated debate about student reassignments in Wake County schools, the consequences of ditching the district’s diversity policy is a matter of speculation. But in Charlotte, the results are as Read More …