The CSU system appears to be moving forward with the idea of requiring an additional quantitative reasoning course — but without first satisfying the faculty’s recommendation to study its potential impact.
What does it mean to connect mathematics to the pursuit of justice? For one thing, it means not letting math education interfere with justice.
It’s time to reconsider whether Algebra 2 really creates the opportunities we have long assumed and build more rigorous pathways that lead students to college.
Mentor-mentee relationships among formerly incarcerated students go beyond social, cultural, intellectual, and campus knowledge. These relationships can empower and transform the lives of students by increasing academic and employment opportunities.
Partners for Each and Every Child has been working with the National Coalition for Community Schools to engage and support the local and national Community Schools movement in developing national implementation standards. We encourage the Department of Education to consider these implementation standards as the you continue working toward advancing a comprehensive approach to student success.
If states do not meaningfully engage families and community stakeholders while designing and implementing ESSA, we may miss a crucial opportunity to advance the interests of students who have been historically underserved and denied the full protections to which they are entitled under federal law. Partners for Each and Every Child has created a set of principles for high quality stakeholder engagement to help guide states and their partners in these efforts.
The Opportunity Institute is pleased to share that education policy analyst Pamela Burdman will be a Fellow in our Postsecondary and Transitions to Work area.
New provisions in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) explicitly recognize the value of early learning and call for evidence-based interventions as part of school improvement efforts. As the state’s implementation plan for ESSA is developed, we recommend that it reflect the import of high-quality early learning in furthering local efforts.
On Thursday, February 25th, 2016, Partners for Each and Every Child and Mississippi partners (see below for a full list) hosted a webinar to examine the implications of the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act on Mississippi and efforts to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to succeed in school.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2015, EdSource and Partners for Each and Every Child hosted a webinar to examine the implications of the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act on California and the effort to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to succeed in school.
High-quality child-care programs can boost children’s cognitive and social-emotional skills, predict improvement in math and language acquisition later on, and has been linked to lower levels of grade repetition. Opportunity may be hard won, but a fighting chance at it begins with high-quality care.
