Only one piece of the puzzle
A new study on school closures in Chicago reports an unsurprising but important finding: the quality of the school a student attends after he/she is displaced by a closure is extremely important.
A new study on school closures in Chicago reports an unsurprising but important finding: the quality of the school a student attends after he/she is displaced by a closure is extremely important.
The 2009 edition of my favorite annual report has just been released.
As Amy indicates, the latest findings from the just-released National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report contain few surprises, especially since we're well
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is out with a new report today that looks at state achievement levels using the common yardstick of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Not great news. According to the AP story:
Quotable: "There are places in America where if you really saw what was going on, as Americans, we would be totally embarrassed. It's Katrina happening without the floods....It's so ugly we have decided not to look at it." -Geoff Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone