Low-Income Students

Equity & Diversity Opinion How Education Reform Traps Poor Children
Too often, reform saddles poor children with an education that focuses on rote learning instead of the richer academic opportunities that would help them thrive, Alfie Kohn writes.
Alfie Kohn, April 26, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Grassroots Teacher Convention Makes Waves in Oakland
Teachers in Oakland have spoken. At the first Oakland Teachers' Convention, more than 200 teachers - close to ten percent of the teachers in the District, gathered and spent two and a half days in intense dialogue to come up with recommendations for the future success of our schools.
Anthony Cody, April 22, 2011
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Federal Opinion Sarah Rubenstein: When Will Impoverished Students Get What They Need?
Three years ago I started serving as a mentor for a young teacher at an alternative middle school in Oakland. This school was for special cases - students who had been pushed out of regular middle schools, usually because they were having behavior issues or getting in fights with other students. You can imagine the kind of environment you get when you gather all these students under one roof. The next year she landed a new position, this time at one of the wealthiest elementary schools in the hills of Oakland, surrounded by million dollar homes. She has left Oakland, but she reflects on this experience here:
Anthony Cody, April 20, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion More Villainous Than Hypocrisy
Democracy rests on an agreement that disagreements are inevitable and healthy and that democracy is at its best a way to sort them out with the least harm to the weakest and least of its citizens.
Deborah Meier, March 24, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Something to Fight For
We need something to fight FOR, not just against. The billionaires' reforms take us backward, so what would forward look like?
Deborah Meier, March 17, 2011
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4 min read
Equity & Diversity Opinion The Problem with TFA
Perhaps unintentionally, TFA's success has stifled any national discussion about how to build a profession of well-educated, well-prepared, experienced educators who view teaching as a career rather than an experience.
Diane Ravitch, February 15, 2011
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Curriculum Opinion Rules, Children, Schools, and Prisons
So if I sometimes call schools "prisons," I'm actually trying to be, but am not entirely being, literal. Young people are deprived of their liberty although they've committed no crime except being between the ages of 6 and 18?
Deborah Meier, February 3, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion A Letter to My President—The One I Voted for...
It's poverty that sentences many children to lackluster educations, not their struggling schools, but the Race to the Top does not reflect that bitter reality, teacher Paul Karrer writes.
Paul Karrer, February 1, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Closing the Incarceration Gap
There is never a time when we "finally" hit bottom and have nowhere to go but up. We have to take our stand right now, wherever and whenever justice is betrayed.
Deborah Meier, January 26, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Another Look at PISA
So long as we continue to avert our gaze from the festering problems bred by deep poverty and racial isolation, it seems unlikely that any school reform agenda can produce the transformation that our society seeks.
Diane Ravitch, January 4, 2011
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Equity & Diversity Opinion The Haves vs. The Have-Nots
High school principal Eric J. Seymour sees an urgent need for narrowing the gap in college-entrance-exam scores, and he's doing something about it.
Eric J. Seymour, November 5, 2010
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Equity & Diversity Opinion A Manifesto by the Powerful
The superintendents' manifesto does not come from the powerless. It was written by men and women who are in charge of major school systems and who certainly have far more power than parents, teachers, principals, or ordinary citizens.
Diane Ravitch, October 19, 2010
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4 min read
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Housing Policy Is School Policy
Richard D. Kahlenberg explains the significance of a new study on the Montgomery County, Md., schools.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, October 15, 2010
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7 min read
Equity & Diversity As Ranks of Homeless Pupils Grow, Communities Provide Aid
They are among approximately 1 million homeless schoolchildren in America, a number that has risen with the economic hard times of the last few years but that is difficult to pinpoint. For these children, school is a lifeline, and that lifeline would not be there without partnerships involving school systems, the federal government, and community charities and volunteers.
Andrew L. Yarrow, October 7, 2010
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