Posts Tagged: achievement gap

Translating Education Reform into Action

Posted June 4th, 2010 by John O. Harney & filed under Journal Type, The Journal, Topic.

A lot of national attention was paid over the past few months to a situation in Central Falls, R.I., where the superintendent took the action of firing all the high school’s teachers. What started off as a small story about a labor dispute between the administration and the teachers’ union at the high school catapulted into the national education reform debate and had everyone talking ...

Failure to Launch: Confronting the Male College Student Achievement Gap

Posted February 7th, 2010 by NEBHE Admin & filed under Admissions, College Readiness, Commentary, Demography, Economy, Financing, International, Journal Type, Regionalism, Schools, Student Aid, Students, Technology, The Journal, Topic, Trends.

A few years ago, Mathew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker generated big laughs and big box office sales in Failure to Launch, an absurd comedy about a 26-year old man still living in his parents’ basement, spending his days watching television and playing video games while the world passed him by. The film was closer to the truth than many of us have been willing to admit. Young American men...