Opinion: Virginia can expand academic opportunity to every child
September 14, 2022
By Tom Newell, yes. every kid.The Virginian-Pilot The results of this year’s Virginia Standards of Learning exams revealed alarming achievement gaps that could affect students, their families and the commonwealth for years. While overall pass rates for math slipped 16 percentage points between 2019 and 2022, pass rates among Black, Hispanic, economically disadvantaged and English learner students fell by 20 percentage points or more, according to the Virginia Department of Education. Read more at PilotOnline.com.
Introduction to Talking Out At School
April 14, 2020
We traveled the nation, bringing together parents and teachers for honest conversations about education. The conversations were telling. They told the story of an education system that was built many decades ago in the model of a factory, with the goal of producing factory workers. They told the story of top-down solutions whose effectiveness is measured by ever-increasing tests. They told the story of an American education system that needs something more than incremental reform… it needs a revolution. https://www.youtube.com/embed/aUBD7t3pJZk But, more than any of that, they told the story of unity. Parents and teachers united to confront the hobbled…
