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Last week, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy released its latest "Context and Performance" report card for Michigan schools. We mentioned the Center's…
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Researchers Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia Buchman write in the Los Angeles Times about another phenomenon for the gap watch files.According to Buchman and…
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I've been spending a lot of time recently trying to figure out why girls perform better than boys on almost every measure of academic achievement. Looking…
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Initially, it was darkly funny and absurd: "What's up with all the 'gaps'?," we asked ourselves. Discipline gap. Gender gap. Achievement gap. And now the…
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When I told people I was working on this special, one hour show about race, a lot of the reactions were along the lines of “race…hmm….interesting.” Like,…
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We're starting to look into why certain kids are getting suspended from school more often than others, namely African-Americans, Latinos, students with…
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A few recent recent stories made me wonder how much a health or special education diagnosis can impact a kids achievement in school. Two New York Times…
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Race. We're going to be talking a lot about race and racial disparities over the coming months. I, for one, am working on an hour-long special about race…
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PBS Newshour has a thought-provoking segment on the implementation of "deep learning" at the secondary school level. Deep learning is hands-on,…