Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/residential-resegregation-by-income-continues-across-americas-large-metropolitan-areas/ In 2011, Stanford University educational sociologist Sean Reardon and his Cornell University colleague Kendra Bishoff showed that while in 1970, only 15 percent of families lived in neighborhoods classified as affluent or poor, by 2007, 31 percent … Continued
Position Summary: A statewide campaign based in Harrisburg and advocating for improved funding for Pennsylvania’s public schools is seeking an experienced State Field Coordinator to start May 1, 2016. The Field Coordinator will help coordinate the community outreach of the … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/two-powerful-summaries-of-injustice-in-the-charter-sector/ Those of us who live in cities and states where charter schools have rapidly expanded know the sensational stories that appear in the press—fraud, conflicts of interest, nepotism, punitive discipline, and a raft of stories about exclusion … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/national-education-policy-center-releases-profound-analysis-of-portfolio-school-reform/ In a new policy brief, the National Education Policy Center has published a lucid and pithy summary of the tragedy happening today in urban public school districts across the United States: “As policymakers and the courts abandoned … Continued