Report ranks North Carolina 34th in the nation for child well-being The latest KIDS COUNT Data Book released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation looks at 16 measures of child well being in four categories, rating them 1 to 50. North Carolina ranks highest at 28th in Education and lowest at 38th in Economic Well-Being. […]
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First Five Years Fund Poll Shows Strong Bipartisan Support for Federal Action on Early Educati...
A poll by the First Five Years Fund finds that 71 percent of voters are in favor of greater federal investments in early childhood education. “An overwhelming majority of Americans from diverse political and demographic backgrounds support federal action on early childhood education,” said First Five Years Fund Executive Director Kris Perry. “They understand its […]
New research shows effectiveness of student-centered learning approaches in closing the opportunity g...
New research from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) reveals how four schools in Northern California are succeeding in breaking the achievement gap for students of color and low-income students. SCOPE released their research: a cross-case analysis, a technical report, a research and policy brief and an interactive online tool for educators, […]
To Close the Achievement Gap, We Need to Close the Teaching G...
Since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) there has been more testing and greater consequences for poor results. Despite these efforts to close the achievement gap, Linda Darling-Hammond notes that “U.S. performance on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) declined in every subject area between 2000 and 2012—the years in which these […]