Chasm In The Classroom: Inside The Battle To Close The Achievement Gap

Monday, June 25, 2012 Chasm In The Classroom: Inside The Battle To Close The Achievement Gap NEW YORK -- Ana Enriquez, 17, did her homework in a rat-infested South Bronx apartment, where she shared a bed with her mother and lived with five other relatives. She once considered a career selling drugs. Now she studies how they affect the brain and dreams of winning a Nobel Prize. Janell, also 17, watched former classmates from her tough Washington Heights neighborhood drop out of school and go to jail. But she plans to make a life on the other side of the prison bars, working as a forensic psychologist for the FBI. Tuition Hikes Around The Country At Public Colleges In 2012 Recent Graduates Struggle To Make Ends Meet, Make Debt Payments Bloomberg: Schools Will 'Call Every Single Parent' For Teacher Ratings Tennessee No-Holding Hands Sex Education Law Blasted By Critics College Degree Makes Upward Mobility More Likely For The Poor BLOG POSTS Terry Newell: Lessons on Leadership: The University of Virginia Fires a President The university will survive this difficult period. Yet UVA's leaders, including Sullivan, would do well to identify the lessons about leadership to be learned from this episode. Randi Weingarten: By Teachers, for Teachers Share My Lesson is by teachers, for teachers, and it will become the largest online community for educators in the United States. It categorizes teacher-created resources by grade level, subject and type of resource. Larry Strauss: The Business as Usual Betrayal of Teachers and Students We are not amused by a school district that has squandered billions of dollars over the years. We are not amused by the education testing industry that keeps sucking dollars out of our schools and leaving us with less and less. Chris Kelly: Karen Klein Should Give the Money Back I can't shake the feeling that Karen Klein should take $15,506 and give it back to the people of Greece, New York, who paid her to monitor children on a school bus. Someone should have been monitoring the kids on that bus. And clearly it wasn't Karen Klein. Laura Flores Shaw: The School Bus Bullying Video Shows the Problem with Schools, Not Parents We can't blame the parents for Karen Klein's bullying experience. Nor can we blame teachers. But perhaps we can blame a system that is not designed to create a peaceful, respectful community.

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