Tag: Achievement Gap
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SD Unified Joins Other Urban Districts to Improve Outcomes for Boys of Color
By Mario Koran Superintendent Cindy Marten has a message for President Barack Obama: Let’s do this. On Monday, San Diego Unified became one of 60 urban school districts to commit to boosting outcomes for students of color, specifically black and Latino males. The announcement is part an initiative called My Brother’s Keeper that the president…
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Marten Goes All In on the Achievement Gap
By Mario Koran At a recent San Diego Unified school board meeting, Superintendent Cindy Marten stepped forward and unceremoniously dropped a bomb: The district has broken the promises of equity it made to schools and children, she said. To make it right, San Diego needs a three-pronged approach to closing the achievement gap. In its…
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SD Unified Scores Go Up On National Exams, But Racial Gap Remains
By Kyla Calvert San Diego city students are generally out performing their peers on national math and reading tests, known as the National Assessments of Educational Progress, or NAEP, according to results released Wednesday. But a wide achievement gap in the district persists. Every two years, results on national tests of fourth- and eighth-grade math…
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On School Curriculum: ‘You’re Asking Students to Hate Who They Are’
By Mario Koran Alberto Ochoa remembers how, as a freshman at a Los Angeles public high school, the vice principal told his class that half of the students wouldn’t graduate. Turns out, Ochoa said, “that’s exactly what happened.” Many of his classmates dropped out, some “survived public education” and made it out with a diploma,…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About the Achievement Gap
By Mario Koran San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten has a dream. A dream where one day all students will have equitable access to educational opportunities, no matter the color of their skin. Where they will be judged not by the score of their tests, but by what they can contribute to society. But for…