NCLB Ignores What We Know about School Change and
Is Motivated by Politics
by Gary Orfield
The full report can be found at http://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/:
A new report from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, a non-partisan research
center which has been systematically studying the implementation of the
federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) since its inception, finds that some of [...]

Large Urban-Suburban Gap Seen in Graduation Rates
By SAM DILLON
Published: April 22, 2009
It is no surprise that more students drop out of high school in big cities than elsewhere. Now, however, a nationwide study shows the magnitude of the gap: the average high school graduation rate in the nation’s 50 largest cities was 53 percent, compared [...]

Struggling to Rise in Suburbs Where Failing Means Fitting In
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Why We’re Still ‘At Risk’: The Legacy of Five Faulty Assumptions
By Ronald A. Wolk

Our new president has looked into the abyss of our current economic, energy, environmental, and health-care policies and promises to challenge the fundamental assumptions on which they are based. He admonishes us to join him in thinking and acting boldly.
We can only [...]