States overstate student performance
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on May 29, 2012 at 12:19 PMOur weekly newsletter, Speaking Out!, has a great recap of our new education report and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s report on kinship care:
We know from federal test score data that most fourth graders are not proficient in reading…
A report card on America’s children
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on May 21, 2012 at 4:03 PMJust as kids nationwide are starting to return from school with report cards, our new report looks at the report card for America’s overall education system. The results, based on federal test scores, are not good: only one in three…
All growth in child population since 2000 has been among Non-Whites
Posted by rheine on Dec 9, 2011 at 4:09 PMA new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows interesting demographic changes for kids in the latest Census data. One of the most surprising is that “All of the growth in the child population since 2000 has been among groups…
2011 test scores show student underperformance, again
Posted by rheine on Dec 6, 2011 at 5:40 PMNew government data shows that our students still aren’t reading as well as they should. In fact, only one-third of fourth-graders read as well as they should. Worse still, there are troubling racial disparities in who succeeds.
The 2011 report…
Tell Congress: Close racial gaps in educational achievement!
Posted by Joe Theissen on Nov 9, 2011 at 3:21 PMThe next generation is much more racially diverse than adults now, and signals a more colorful America to come. In fact, The Pew Research Center estimates that by 2050 less than half the population will be White.
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Obama administration to exempt some states from No Child Left Behind
Posted by Casey_Labrack on Aug 11, 2011 at 5:13 PMWith officials from many states saying they can’t meet the standards of the federal No Child Left Behind education law, the Obama administration plans to issue waivers excusing them from some of the law’s requirements. The No Child Left…
States experiment with common education standards
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Apr 26, 2011 at 5:44 PMForty-two states are committed to teaching children according to a single set of new standards, and many class lessons are changing already, reports the New York Times. This is a key development in the education of our kids.…
Obama: Education equality “the civil rights issue of our time”
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Apr 7, 2011 at 1:49 PMPresident Obama vowed to work to eliminate achievement gaps in education at a gathering yesterday. Obama spoke to a friendly crowd at the 20th anniversary of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, saying “Too many of our kids are…
Racial gaps in early learning
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on May 20, 2010 at 6:58 PMEarly Ed Watch yesterday provided an excellent overview of the early learning listening tours being conducted now by the Department of Education. As Congress considers renewing federal education programs, one issue we’d like policymakers to listen to is…
Where does your state rank on student reading?
Posted by Casey_Labrack on May 19, 2010 at 3:34 PMThe Annie E. Casey Foundation’s comprehensive report, “Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters,” this week drew attention to the problem of student underperformance in reading. Now that data has been integrated with the Foundation’s…
