Educational Inequality

Educators across the US and everyone invested in the education of our children are holding their breath as the National Center for Education Statistics or NCES is on track for the administration of 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP. Data collection started last month and will provide us with…

Baltimore City and Montgomery County FY2020 — Much has been written of economic inequality in the United States,² and how racial segregation, concentration of poverty and local tax financing of public education perpetuates American apartheid. Let us reflect upon the data in microcosm, by comparing the tax base and education financing of Baltimore City and Montgomery County…

You can’t fix what you can’t see. A case for the urgency of diversity in education leadership. — I don’t enjoy 3D movies. It’s less about putting on glasses touched by dozens of people — will we ever do that again after the pandemic? — and more about the disorienting experience. Things move too fast, too aggressively. They make me anxious waiting for the next unexpected assault. Take…

In the last quarter of 2019, Fanidh Sanogo made history when she became the first Burkinabé to successfully land a Mandela Rhodes Scholarship — a leadership-focused scholarship program that Nelson Mandela founded in 2003 in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Now pursuing a master’s degree in Social Anthropology at the…

Week 2 Reading #TempleSocEd Hearing the phrase “educational inequality” makes me think of the many individuals who are not able to gain access to the educational opportunities that are available due to the main factor being low income in families . Hearing that phrase also makes the think about the…

In September of 2017 the Economic Policy Institute published a study on social class (read: socioeconomic status) and educational success. …

The Stigma behind the need for students with a learning disability to learn in a separate, secluded, environment. There is constantly a controversial debate on whether or not students who have disabilities should have to learn in a separate environment. The debate faces the fact that students should be allowed…

The first school term of the year started on 3rd March 2020. I remember entering my Primary Five classroom and meeting learners who could barely express themselves when asked any question. Why? Well, they hardly spoke a word of English and evidently had really low self-esteem. To be honest, I…

This week: the new Government; more police officers; and the school ‘disadvantage gap’ General New Government; new ministers. I’m not going to add to the reams of commentary about what the makeup of the new Government, or specific ministers, mean — but in case you’ve been living under a rock…