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NUL: Higher Ed Act Renewal Must Address Barriers to Underserved Students
As Congress prepares for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, one of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations said that access, affordability, completion and accountability should serve as the guiding principles in supporting the nation’s first civil rights law to address post-secondary learning.
Marc H. Morial
State tests can assist student success
No Longer Homeless, but Still Struggling in School
By Elizabeth A. Harris, NY Times
Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises.
Ambitious goals were not uncommon in New Orleans charter schools, but rarely achieved.
By Katy Reckdahl
The Hechinger Report
The Broken Promise of Higher Education
Americans believe self-interested leaders have put their needs ahead of students, leading to a college-completion crisis.
By Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Atlantic
DeVos praises this voucher-like program. Here’s what it means for school reform.
Florida has channeled billions of taxpayer dollars into scholarships for poor children to attend private schools over the past 15 years, using tax credits to build a laboratory for school choice that the Trump administration holds up as a model for the nation.
Will school choice energize or endanger public education?
The Trump administration’s push for school choice is unlikely to have a big effect on California, where hundreds of charter
schools are already flourishing, according to local educators. The greater risk, they say, is that possible changes in federal funding could hurt the state’s most vulnerable students.
Under DeVos, Here's How School Choice Might Work
About the Report
The Building Better Narratives in Black Education report is designed to provide tangible approaches to shift the narrative concerning Black educational reform in order to better engage communities around K-12 education and drive substantive policy changes for Black students.To do this, we build on the experiences of an array of Black voices on K-12 education. We hope individuals will be able to:
(Source: Chicago Defender | Arionne Nettles | September 16, 2016) — The Chicago Urban League is hosting a water collection drive for Flint, Michigan residents thanks to one of its mentoring students.
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