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I’ll open with an unsolicited plug for a friend. One of my fellow students at the Humphrey school recently started blogging for the Young Education Professionals—Twin Cities (YEP-TC) group. Continue Reading
It’s not just what happens in school that matters. We know countless factors affect children outside the school day, and there are many opportunities to help kids during those hours when they’re not in class. A recent article on The Atlantic’s website attempts to address this issue, but misses the real inequalities that come with after-school activities. Continue Reading
No one measure fully captures true social and economic complexity. It’s true in education, and it’s true in employment. In our unemployment gaps graph, we examined differences between Minnesotans from white, black, and Hispanic backgrounds. Continue Reading
Minnesota had a brief moment of unity celebrating the gains we’ve made in educational equity. Then the credit-and-blame processes kicked into gear. Continue Reading
Having documented Minnesota’s test score and graduation gaps, we’re now going to look at other equity gaps in Minnesota. We’ll start with some economic gaps. Continue Reading
“It works!”That’s what we all want to hear. In education reform, the stakes are high, the equity gaps are increasingly well-known, and the thirst for solutions is strong. We know the outcomes are a problem, and we want to fix it. This has driven research (and investments) into a variety of areas, one of the most visible of which is teacher quality. Within the last month, two different studies have come out on the topic, often accompanied by triumphant headlines that over-represent the findings. Continue Reading
Before moving on to cover a broader range of equity gaps in Minnesota, here’s one last education-related gaps post. The 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress results are available, which allows us to have a more current perspective on Minnesota’s test score gaps. Continue Reading
We’ll be returning to the Gaps of the Day series soon, but first a quick graph showing the good night most school levy referenda had on Tuesday. Continue Reading
Neither savior nor devil, the Gates Foundation is unquestionably one of the major players in education these days. Education Week just ran a lengthy profile of the foundation’s work in recent years, and a few of their findings stand out in connection to work we’ve done here at Minnesota 2020. Continue Reading