by Tiffany Lankes | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
When Julie VanDerwater took over as principal at Rochester’s Joseph C. Wilson Magnet School in 2016, there were only about 30 students in the school’s prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) program, and the vast majority were White. That was at a school where...
by Tiffany Lankes | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
As the founding principal of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, Rashid Davis has not just tinkered around the margins of the course access problem – he’s taken a hammer to it. More than 1 in 3 Black students are enrolled in Physics,...
by Tiffany Lankes | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
When Sabatino Cimato was a principal in the Buffalo Public Schools a few years ago, if he wanted to offer an Advanced Placement course it was on him to find resources, hire a teacher, and arrange training. Now, school leaders receive extensive support from the...
by Tiffany Lankes | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
Yonkers Superintendent Edwin M. Quezada’s expansion of Algebra 1 at the middle school level started with a simple premise: Students might be more likely to succeed in a difficult course in an environment where they already feel comfortable and supported. And as the...
by sham | Jan 10, 2020 | Press Release
Civil rights, education, parent, and business groups release new data on disparities in advanced courses and call on state leaders to adopt 4 policy solutions NEW YORK – Even when they scored proficient on the state math assessment in grade 7, students who are...
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