Studies show poverty damages the brains of very poor children. Early interventions and raising the standard of living of poor families could help close Wisconsin’s worst-in-the-nation achievement gap.
Category: Children Left Behind
A project exploring reasons for faltering performance and ways to improve the state of education for Wisconsin’s poor children and students of color.
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Affordable rent, stable housing help some residents succeed
Stable housing plays a key role in ensuring academic success.
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Apartment learning centers seek to shrink achievement gap for children and adults
Community learning centers in Madison and Milwaukee offer a promising method of shrinking academic achievement gaps.
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Wisconsin’s black-white achievement gap worst in nation despite decades of efforts
Students like Demitrius Kigeya thrive in Wisconsin despite the worst black-white achievement gap in the nation. The state ranks the worst in the nation for the difference between how well black and white students perform, the likelihood that black students will be suspended from school and the difference between black and white student graduation rates.
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How to investigate achievement gaps in your local schools
Investigate achievement gaps in your local schools to seek solutions.
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Critics say Wisconsin going backward on achievement gap
In the past year, the Republican-run state Legislature, with the blessing of Gov. Scott Walker, eliminated the state’s race-based integration program and made changes to a class-size reduction program in moves that critics charge will harm the state’s ability to close the achievement gap.
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Local solutions integral to closing gaps, top education official says
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reporter Abigail Becker sat down in October with state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, Department of Public Instruction spokesman Tom McCarthy and the agency’s Director of Education Information Services John Johnson.