Tag: Education Week

• Via NPR.org: Why America’s Schools Have A Money Problem

  An excerpt: Let’s begin with a choice. Say there’s a check in the mail. It’s meant to help you run your household. You can use it to keep the lights on, the water running and food on the table. Would you rather that check be for $9,794 or $28,639? It’s not a trick question. It’s…

  April 19, 2016

  Article

  10% Federal, 45% local, 45% state, Achievement gap, Bruce Baker, Education Week, NPR Ed, Paying for public schools, Rutgers University, San Antonio Independent School District v Rodriguez, Satan, School Money Project

• Via TheAtlantic.com: The Subtle Evolution of Native American Education

  An excerpt: Just as the feds have long predicted, the 50 million-plus students enrolled in the country’s public K-12 schools this fall are more racially diverse than ever. Students of color now outnumber their white peers, largely thanks to striking growth in America’s Latino and Asian youth populations. Times sure have changed: Fewer than one…

  February 17, 2016

  Article

  Achievement gap, American Indian College Fund, Aspen Journal for Ideas, Cheryl Crazy Bull, DOE, Education Week, indigenous children, Jon Allan Reyhner, language-immersion schools, National Education Association, US Department of Education

• ED Week – Education in Indian Country: Obstacles and Opportunity

  Here is an in depth series on Native Education. An excerpt: On most measures of educational success, Native American students trail every other racial and ethnic subgroup of students. To explore the reasons why, Education Week sent a writer, a photographer, and a videographer to American Indian reservations in South Dakota and California earlier this fall. Their work…

  Matthew Campbell

  December 4, 2013

  Announcement, Article, Discussion, Reports

  California, Education, Education Week, Native American, South Dakota