Christina Samuels
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Looking to Reduce Racial Bias in Grading? This Tool May Help
In an experiment, teachers were more likely to judge a black student's writing as being below grade level compared a white peer. The disparities disappeared when teachers were given a grading rubric to follow. → Read More
Selective Virginia Public High School to Drop Standardized Admissions Test
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology will see a new test-free admissions process by November, district leaders say. → Read More
Parents Backing Trump, Biden Diverge on Back-to-School COVID-19 Issues
Trump supporters are far more likely than Biden voters to report their children are attending in-person, full-time public school, says a new EdWeek Research Center survey. → Read More
Where's the Threat? School Resource Officers' Views Differ Based on District Racial Makeup
Interviews with more than 70 school resource officers showed striking differences in how they perceived their jobs, with officers in a more affluent district seeing themselves as protectors and their counterparts in a more diverse district viewing students as threatening. → Read More
What Is a 'Math Assistant Principal?' New Administrative Role Supports Equity
Long Beach Unified created a "math assistant principal," position, among other initiatives, to support students in schools that have the highest needs in math. Stacey Benuzzi, who holds that position, explains how her job works. → Read More
Sleep Helps Teens Cope With Stress; Instances of Discrimination, Study Finds
A good night's sleep doesn't eliminate stress, but there's new evidence that adolescents are able to cope better with stressful events when they sleep well the night before. → Read More
California State University Puts Off Decision to Require 4 Years of Math for Admissions
Pushing the final vote until 2022 will allow CSU trustees to study the impact of requiring four years of math or math-focused coursework for university admissions. → Read More
Black and Hispanic Students Are Succeeding in Hard Courses. So What's Keeping Many of Them Out?
Schools serving a predominantly minority population have fewer seats in advanced classes, and black and Hispanic students face barriers within schools when it comes to enrolling in harder courses, says a new Education Trust report. → Read More
Culturally Supportive Program for Black Boys Boosts On-Time Graduation Rates
The California district rolled out a culturally-specific program to support black male students, and the program has led to positive outcomes for students who had an opportunity to participate. → Read More
Voters Approve First Step in Carving Out New School District in Louisiana
Louisiana now has a new municipality, St. George, which voted to incorporate after several unsuccesful attempts to create a school system independent of the 41,000-student East Baton Rouge system. → Read More
New Data Tool Rates 'Educational Opportunity' Offered in Nation's Schools, Districts
Stanford University released an interactive web tool that allows users to look up school and district performance in comparison to nationwide benchmarks. → Read More
Racial Segregation Grows as Southern Communities Splinter Into New Districts
The South, once the nation's most integrated region, has been re-segregating, and in recent years one factor has been smaller communities breaking away from larger districts to form their own systems. → Read More
New York City and the Challenge of Integrating Schools
A review of the first year in office New York City district's new chancellor shows the difficulty of taking on diversity in schools. → Read More
Segregation of Latino Students From White Peers Increased Over a Generation, Study Finds
Latino students are less likely today to attend schools with white students, according to new research, but low-income students are increasingly likely to attend school with middle-income peers. → Read More
What's Next for New York's Elite High Schools Now That De Blasio's Diversity Plan Is Dead
A contentious debate over New York's elite high schools flared this year as Mayor Bill de Blasio sought to scrap the exam that determines admissions as a way to increase enrollment of black and Hispanic students. But amid strong opposition from the city's Asian community and well-heeled alumni, state lawmakers never took action on the proposed diversity plan. → Read More
Students Most at Risk of Getting Spanked at School Are Black or Disabled, Data Show
19 states still permit corporal punishment and a new Southern Poverty Law Center analysis of federal education data shows that deep disparities among the types of students who experience spanking or paddling at the hands of school officials. → Read More
How Schools, Districts, and Communities Are Joining Forces to Bolster Early Learning
A new report describes innovative school and districtwide approaches to supporting young children from birth through early-elementary school. → Read More
Teacher Experience and Preparation Led to Stronger Black and Hispanic Achievement, Study Says
A new report from the Learning Policy Institute found that black and Hispanic students in districts that employ fully-qualified and experienced educators outperformed their peers in districts with higher percentages of teachers with less time on the job and who were not fully credentialed. → Read More
Education Department to Appeal Decision on Special Education Bias Rule
The action is the latest in a long-running legal dispute that has the potential to affect millions of dollars in federal special education funding. → Read More
Whites, Blacks Divided on Value of Neighborhood Schools and Diversity, Survey Finds
A Pew Research Center survey found that more than two-thirds of black respondents valued diverse schools over neighborhood schools, almost the exact opposite of white respondents answering the same question. → Read More