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Malcolm X

It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
--Derrick Bell, 1987

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
-- John Dewey

"Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
-- John Hope Franklin

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Achieve.org

Top 10 List

A list of 10 achievable actions states can implement to accelerate statewide high school education reforms.

  1. Creating a permanent Education Roundtable or Commission to foster coordination between early childhood, K-12 and higher education;
  2. Defining a rigorous college and work preparatory curriculum for high school graduation;
  3. Challenging business, education, parent, community and faith-based organizations to support initiatives that improve college awareness;
  4. Giving college and work-readiness assessments in high school;
  5. Creating statewide common course agreements so that college-level work in high school counts towards a postsecondary credential;
  6. Providing financial incentives for disadvantaged students to take rigorous AP exams and college-preparatory and college-level courses;
  7. Expanding college-level learning opportunities in high school to minorities, English language learners, low-income students and youth with disabilities;
  8. Helping get low-performing students back on track by designing literacy and math recovery programs;
  9. Developing and fund supports to help students pass the high school exit exam; and
  10. Developing statewide pathways to industry certification.

Testing While Black: Standards-Based School Refrom and African American Learners

School reform movements sweeping across U.S. schools have made claims of accountability for all students' learning. The Bush administration has proposed reform strategies so that “no child is left behind” (Department of Education, p. 1). Fueled by the poor test performance of inner-city students, those proposals have given rise to an overreliance on high-stakes testing as a vehicle for accountability. Given the persistent overrepresentation of African Americans in special education classes, conversations about school reform must include African American learners' needs. School reform proposals predicated on high-stakes testing will ensure that the very child who gets left behind will be African American.

 

 

 

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