Making sure students read by 3rd grade
As I discussed in the Center for Public Education’s Starting Out Right report, third grade reading is essential to a student’s future success. Recognizing this, policymakers around the country want to make sure all students do in fact know how to read before moving onto the fourth grade by proposing policies to retain third graders [...] |
My role in education: CPE’s newest intern
As a current graduate student at The George Washington University who is working towards a degree in Bilingual Special Education, I am forced each day to re-evaluate the role I could potentially play in education. As a product of a New York City Title I high school, I remember sitting in my high school classroom [...] |
Principals matter too!
A couple weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend the CALDER Center’s annual value-added conference. For those of you who are not aware of CALDER, it is a group of some of the most respected academic researchers from around the country now housed at the American Institutes of Research (AIR) who conduct high quality [...] |
A full-K campaign
The Children’s Defense Fund wants everyone to understand that the “K” in “K-12” isn’t a sure thing. As CDF points out, most states require school districts to offer kindergarten to families who want it, but children in six states aren’t guaranteed that opportunity. And only 10 states and DC require kindergarten to be a full-school-day [...] |
Virtually no information
I’m going to do something I rarely do. I’m going to write a blog post without information to support it. While you might think this goes against everything the Center stands for — and in many ways it does — I have to. You see, there just isn’t information out there. What am I talking [...] |