New Study Shows Reading Level in Grade 3 Crucial to Future Success
From the American Educational Research Association (AERA) convention in New Orleans: A new study by Hunter College’s Donald Hernandez shows third grade […]
Category: Education
Boston Globe Debuts Multimedia Series on School Lottery
The Boston Globe recently unveiled a new series, “Getting In: Inside Boston’s School Assignment Maze,” which follows 13 families through the Boston […]
ReadBoston & Farragut Elementary Celebrate African-American Heroes
Our last blog post described Sacha Pfeiffer’s interview on WBUR with Rick Weissbourd, the founder of ReadBoston. This literacy initiative has offered […]
City Connects’ Partner ReadBoston Featured
In a recent story on elementary school students’ reading achievement, “Making Sure Mass. 3rd Graders are Strong Readers,” WBUR interviewed the founder […]
“Income Gap” Growing for Middle-class Families
A report from the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) offers an analysis of the relationship between family income and child health, education, […]
Survey Shows Adults Blame Parents for Public School Problems
According to a poll conducted by the Associated Press and Stanford University, adults think that parents and state education officials deserve the […]
Report Details Decrease in “Dropout Factory” High Schools
The America’s Promise Alliance is a cross-sector partnership of corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups founded by General Colin Powell working […]
City Connects in the Boston College Chronicle
Read about City Connects and our recent conference on Optimized Student Support in the most recent issue of The Boston College Chronicle: […]
New Report Shows High-poverty Schools Have Fewer In-field Teachers
The Education Trust, a nonprofit group working to close the achievement gap, published a study yesterday that reports that 9 years after […]
New Study Shows Achievement Gap Persists
A study released yesterday from the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization representing 66 of the nation’s large urban public […]