Successive governments in many countries have been trying to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students. Billions of pounds have been spent in the UK on an extensive range of programmes and ...

McKinsey & Company is one of the leading management consulting companies in the world so when they turn their attention to analyzing a problem, people listen. Recently, McKinsey’s Social Sector Office ...

How can schools close the achievement gap? The achievement gap refers to measurable differences in academic performance between groups of students, usually tracked through test scores and graduation ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It’s not necessarily a competition between boys and girls when it comes to reading, but if it were a competition, girls would win. For the 2023-2024 school year, Florida’s ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released late last month, reveal a distressing trend in ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card reveals a concerning decline in reading achievement across the U.S. This webinar brings together education and literacy experts to examine the root causes and outline ...

A new District of Columbia Council bill mandating training for public charter school boards, while well-meaning, fails to address the real problem in D.C.’s public schools: the city’s large, growing ...

If you are interested in our country's K-12 education system (and who isn't?), I strongly recommend two recent and excellent documentaries on the subject. The first is "The Lottery," directed by ...

Maurice Washington wants to talk about the education achievement gap among black and brown kids, a very good thing to be talking about. He’s managed to ignite a storm. What comes next matters. The ...

Several members of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education said Tuesday night that they want the next school superintendent to have a strong plan to end the racial achievement gap in the ...

The achievement gap between white students and those of color in Nebraska is shrinking, but performance on state tests by minority students still lags significantly behind, according to a report ...

Nguyen and East are two voices not usually heard at PTA meetings or testifying before the Board of Education. But they were heard clearly in small groups, called "study circles," that came together ...