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.
Local school improvement planning efforts are set to begin this upcoming fall and will have serious implications for those schools defined as “underperforming” under a given state’s accountability system. It’s imperative that communities get involved and contribute to key decision-making processes at the local level.
Yesterday, Partners for Each and Every Child released a report highlighting promising engagement processes in eight California districts. The case studies illustrate how the five pillars of engagement are integral to regular, two-way dialogue with stakeholders to support and sustain educational equity.
Every year, still, I feel an achy hollowness in my chest. Sometimes there’s also a tightness and throbbing—like now, as I write this.
The first time, my ache was accompanied by a deep, grumbling fear. I was in 10th grade, vice president of the student body, sitting in the gym bleachers, about to share my thoughts with about 1,500 students, the morning of April 5, 1968. And I feared for the future of racial justice.
It can be tempting for those of us acting in the national policy sphere to see the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) as an opportunity to start fresh. But “stakeholder engagement” is not new, and requiring that it be part of policy decision-making is not special to ESSA.
