Achievement Gap

OLYMPIA — Across the state, schools have worked hard to improve student learning and close achievement gaps. The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is proud to honor that work by announcing the winners of the 2021–2022 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Distinguished Schools Award. The ESEA Distinguished…

Leading up to the mass return to in-person learning this fall, media outlets and state governments painted doomsday pictures of student-learning loss. The solution, according to some education interest groups? Learning “acceleration.” …

Closing the Achievement Gap for Children of Foreign-born Black African Immigrants, in Harlem. Educator François Nzi’s solution. By Mamadou Niang Aissita Koné comes home from work at 4:30 pm to fix dinner for her three teenage girls — her eldest child, Aboubacar, a 20-year-old young man, is a junior at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY. …

“the opportunities ahead” Talk of “learning loss” in conjunction with the escalating calls to help our students “catch up” this summer and fall have become a major focus of conversation for all involved in education. …

Imagine you decide to quit your job and become a nomad, travelling the world. Nothing is stable anymore and you struggle to rebuild the way your life works: trying to find the best way to keep your income, deciding where to live for the next couple of weeks, having to…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Saturday is Justice, Freedom, Law, and Values Day Today’s Topic: The Moccasin Test and the “Family Box” — How to Close Achievement Gaps (Part One) The key to success in life is attitude. An “I can” attitude is a winner. An “I can’t” attitude is a…

As we slowly begin to reopen schools in full or part-time hybrid schedules mitigating the learning losses that occurred during the pandemic is of top priority. This is a tricky task because for many students there are virtually no gaps in their learning, while others are faced with a massive…