achievement gap

NAEP Shows Most Students Lack Writing Proficiency

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and

County, State Passing Rates Fall on New Math SOLs

Fairfax County Public Schools students largely outperformed their peers on the 2011-2012 Virginia Standard of Learning (SOL) tests, including on more rigorous state math standards introduced fo

Virginia to revise student achievement goals

Virginia intends to revise its new goals for student achievement in public schools, after state and federal officials agreed that those goals did not do enough to narrow the gap between student

Christina Nuckols: Setting new academic expectations

When the No Child Left Behind law was passed in 2001, it was uplifting to think that someday every student in America might be able to achieve basic reading and math skills.

The hard bigotry of poverty: Why ignoring it will doom school reform

This was written by Brock Cohen, a teacher and student advocate in the Los Angeles Unified School District who contends that we can no longer afford to trivialize the critical role that po

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