Educational Equity- Legislative Solutions

Blog Post from Luke Laurie’s Teacher Blog: http://lukelaurie.wordpress.com/ Good Administration or governance requires knowledge.Our Democracy rests on the quality of public education. The fundamental unfairness in funding, opportunity, and achievement in America’s schools is the underlying reason for a significant portion of federal education funding (Title 1), and is both a reflection and contributing factor [...]

Using Psychology to Solve Education Woes

Can you convince students that their class is smaller, so they can benefit from that? Can you talk them into believing that their school is safe and well-maintained when it’s not. Can you convince them that their inequitable access to education resources is fair and just?

Educational Equity-Legislative Possibilities

The fundamental unfairness in funding, opportunity, and achievement in America’s schools is the underlying reason for the existence of a significant portion of federal education funding (Title 1 and IDEA), and is both a reflection and contributing factor to the continued divisions and disparity between socioeconomic, geographic, and racial groups in the U.S. It’s well [...]