Wake Up and See the Carolina Blue: Color Blindness in Wake County, NC
“We have an achievement gap,” a Wake County, North Carolina School board member expounded during his Fall 2009 campaign. “One that is significant. 50% of our African American boys are dropping out....
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Bill Gates’ address to the National Governor’s Association last month was an ode to excellent teaching. Except that it wasn’t. What we have to do, Gates chirped (to the tune of former DC Public Schools...
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AJ shrugged when I asked him why he didn’t even mention the panel. He had been working on it since last semester. Yet during the class period when the very theme of his panel was central to the topic...
View ArticleSocial Class, Social Mobility and English Elite Universities
Source: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-72v5oL8btYc/UXUCrZSIM3I/AAAAAAAAA-I/AUcHZALv2p8/s1600/DSC_0554%5B1%5D.JPG Elizabeth M. Lee’s article Elite Colleges and Socioeconomic Status (Lee, 2013) in September’s...
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