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Chancellor Klein and Rev. Al on Closing the Achievement Gap
Chancellor Klein joined Reverend Al Sharpton this week to discuss efforts to close the racial achievement gap separating black and Hispanic students from their white and Asian peers. “We cannot continue to accept that barely half of the country’s black and Hispanic students are graduating from high school, or that white children can read at...
Is the open source business model broken, or can it fix public education?
We at 20/20 Vision are huge fans of Open Source. Both the concept and its implementation challenge our assumptions about how to refine and scale education reform, community development, justice generally, youth leadership, business ventures, publishing, and more everyday. That’s why this caught our eye this morning, from Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Andersen: Stuart Cohen,...
Wendy Kopp on Education Reform
Watch the pioneering education reformer Wendy Kopp of Teach for America — one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People” according to Time magazine (2008) and one of “America’s Best Leaders” according to US News and World Report (2006) — explain to Charlie Rose why “educational inequity is our nation’s greatest injustice.” 20/20 Vision for...
School Satisfaction? Questions about the Survey
Mayor Bloomberg and NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced the results of the largest ever school satisfaction survey yesterday. More than 800,000 stakeholders, including students, parents, and teachers responded, a remarkable achievement. As the Dept. of Education noted, 800,000 people represents 1 in 10 New Yorkers, and over 200,000 more people than the entire...
