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From drug dealing to diploma, a teen's struggle |
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By Claudio Sanchez, NPR, July 25, 2011 First of a five-part series No statistic in education is more damning than the nation's dropout rate. Almost 4 million students start ninth grade every year. One in four won't graduate. About half of those who drop out every year are black. Most will end up unemployed, and by their mid-30s, six out of 10 will have spent time in prison. In Chicago, one young man dropped out, spent time in jail and is now getting a second chance. |
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A Story on the Power of Parents as Teachers |
By Pedro Noguera, Washington Post, April 19, 2011
As a child of immigrant parents, neither of whom graduated from high school, I have often wondered how it was possible that all six of their children graduated from college and earned advanced degrees from some of the best colleges in the country — Harvard, Brown, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia, etc. |
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A New Agenda for Business in Improving STEM Education
By Frederick M. Hess, Andrew P. Kelly, Olivia Meeks, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, April 14, 2011
The United States has historically enjoyed astonishing success on most measures of accomplishment in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), even though international assessments repeatedly suggest that American students lag behind their peers in many nations when it comes to science and math achievement. But in an evolving world, the advantages that carried the United States through the past century appear far less likely to carry it through the next. With other nations making dramatic educational gains and challenging American supremacy in technology, fi nance, and research, our nation's continued success requires dramatic improvement when it comes to educating our youth in math and science. |
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Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power |
By Gretchen Cuda-Kroen, NPR, April 4, 2011
In an interconnected world, speaking more than one language is becoming increasingly common. Approximately one-fifth of Americans speak a non-English language at home, and globally, as many as two-thirds of children are brought up bilingual. |
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Increasing Principal Effectiveness |
A Strategic Investment for ESEA
Center for American Progress, March 24, 2011
School principals are second only to teachers among school-based factors that influence student achievement and they are critical to attracting and retaining effective teachers and other school staff. Or as Chris Cerf, New Jersey commissioner of education, says: “Pick the right school leader and great teachers will come and stay. Pick the wrong one and, over time, good teachers leave, mediocre ones stay, and the school gradually (or not so gradually) declines. Reversing the impact of a poor principal can take years.” Effective principals are also crucial to implementing reforms to human capital systems for teachers, such as rigorous selection and evaluation systems and meaningful professional development. |
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