History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
On charter schools and integration: A case study
- 03-24-2011
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Blog by Dana Goldstein/Ladywonk
Yesterday Bob Herbert published a very good column about why racial and socioeconomic integration remain important education reform goals, even though saying so much has become politically taboo. [“]Educators know that it is very difficult to get consistently good results in schools characterized by high concentrations of poverty. The best teachers tend to avoid such schools. Expectations regarding student achievement are frequently much lower, and there are lower levels of parental involvement. These, of course, are the very schools in which so many black and Hispanic children are enrolled.[“] One reason we don't have a real political conversation about how to counteract school segregation is because of the rise, since the mid-1990s, of the charter school movement. (more...)
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