Leanne Italie at AP reports on some proposed solutions to the problem of boys not reading. The problem: Boys have lagged behind girls in reading achievement for more than 20 years, but the gender gap now exists in nearly every state and has widened to mammoth proportions — as much as 10 percentage points in [...]
Sharon Cohen reports for AP about Urban Prep, an all-boys charter school in Chicago. There are many things that make Urban Prep different, but perhaps the most important one is that 100% of its first graduation class is headed to college. Along the way, boys’ lives have been changed — and very possibly saved. Urban [...]
Try as many have to deny the existence of the “acting white” phenomenon, evidence for it continues to pile up. Stuart Buck’s recent Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation puts the problem front and center. But, when the highly-regarded linguist, author, expert on race relations, and conservative think tank fellow John McWhorter writes about [...]
Today in the WSJ, Miriam Jordan straightforwardly describes what makes a school successful. What works is not a really a secret– high standards, high expectations, no excuses. Jordan looks at two similar kids who went to two different kinds of schools–schools with different philosophies– and the difference that made in their lives: In middle school, [...]
Joanne Jacobs takes a look at Stuart Buck’s Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation. Buck’s an interesting guy who brings both credentials and experience to the issue. He’s a classical musician, lawyer (Harvard) and scholar who writes on legal as well as education issues. He’s a white dad of six, including an adopted black [...]