January 31st, 2012 at 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET
FREE webinar
The Coalition on Human Needs, the Half in Ten Campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Children’s Leadership Council have partnered to provide a valuable resource to our local partners, members, and allies about what not-for-profit organizations (501C3’s) can do during election years.
The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, headquartered in Boston, is sponsored by the Schott Family Foundation. This is an important effort to attract community agencies to coordinate efforts to change the learning experience of children who live in poverty and/or who experience ongoing acute crises.
The byword - achievement gap - has come to imply that failure to learn is the fault of a student, a teacher or a principal, or all of these. Opportunity to Learn implies that the community and the federal government have responsibilities to our children. If we could only minimize testing and maximize the opportunities for our children to have adequate food, health care, and teachers trained to listen as well as teach our children who live in poverty, we would turn around education in our country today.
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January 10, 2012 8:48 AM
Some thoughts about a momentous occasion: the 10th anniversary of No Child Left Behind, which occurred on January 8.
After 10 years of NCLB, we should have seen dramatic progress on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but we have not. By now, we should be able to point to sharp reductions of the achievement gaps between children of different racial and ethnic groups and children from different income groups, but we cannot. As I said in a recent speech, many children continue to be left behind, and we know who those children are: They are the same children who were left behind 10 years ago.
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