student achievement

I wasn’t supposed to be where I am today. People repeatedly told me, “You ain’t nothin’. You ain’t neva gon be nothin’.” I saw my first murder at age 11, a

This is a stressful time for many urban eighth-grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing from public schools about ac

As a parent, if you believed your child to be enrolled in a failing school, would you withdraw them? And if you did, how likely would it be that you would

Oakland blogger Dirk Tillotson wrote this provocative piece suggesting that unions and charters could actually be good for each other. Currently, about 12

Yesterday, the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) made a public call for non-renewal of six charter schools. The statement said that these schoo

America doesn’t have a good relationship with color-coded systems as previous experiments have shown, but apparently that isn’t stopping the California Sta

The elation I felt upon my acceptance to Ohio State University felt too distant to recall as I walked out of my chemistry final. As a first generation stud

Everyone agrees and research confirms that actively engaged parents produce more successful students. Nevertheless, school systems often conspire to deny p

I recently had my developmental (remedial) English students complete an essay assignment that required them to read and respond to an editorial in The New