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Topics: Minority Students \| College & Work Readiness \| Achievement Gap \| Students \| Interlake ELITES Turn Hispanic Education Around It’s been a grey, grey week, but when I read this Seattle Times article about the incredible power of mobilized Hispanic students at Interlake High School, things seemed a little bit brighter. Topics: Minority Students \| Colleges \| College & Work Readiness \| Achievement Gap \| Add new comment Read more Aios Mios! Seattle’s bilingual programs get the smackdown By maureen on 07 Aug \| 0 comments It’s been a rough week for Seattle Public Schools. An outside review of the district’s program for immigrant students has concluded that it is “one of the weakest the evaluators have ever seen,” and needs a complete overhaul. Sound harsh? That’s just the beginning. The evaluators called the program “ad hoc, incoherent and directionless” and noted that Seattle essentially throws its English-language learners into regular classrooms before they are ready and without much support. Read more... Topics: Minority Students \| K-12 Education Reform \| Education Studies \| Achievement Gap \| Difficult Discussions: Race-ing to Conclusions By maureen on 16 Jul \| 0 comments For such a diverse nation, we certainly have a hard time talking about race. Unfortunately, we have an even harder time talking about it in our schools (which, let’s face it, weren’t exactly race-neutral 50 years ago). Hence, the mild shock I felt when I saw the article “Why do Asian students generally get higher marks than Latinos?” in this morning’s Los Angeles Times. Provocative title? Definitely. Haven’t all of us wondered in the dark corners of our colorblind, politically-correct minds the same question? I’m not asking you to confess and be absolved, if that’s what you’re thinking—but reporter Hector Becerra is. Becerra was able to gather eight students from Lincoln High School in Los Angeles’ Eastside to talk about this touchy subject. Read more... Topics: Students \| Poverty \| National Debates \| Minority Students \| Achievement Gap \| Go on, beat the cynic out of me! By allisonm on 22 May \| 0 comments I heard that a statewide strategic plan to close the African American achievement gap was being developed and it looks like the rumors are true. On Monday, the advisory committee of HB 2722 (passed unanimously last session), was created. Read more... Topics: Achievement Gap \| K-12 Education Reform \| Minority Students \| Healing a Painful Legacy By maureen on 04 Feb \| 0 comments “Kill the Indian and save the man.” I remember first reading those words in a high school class during a discussion of the terrible Americanization policies. The cultural violence of the phrase still shakes me, especially as a native of Washington with its rich indigenous history and no stranger to the tragic “before and after” photographs of “civilized” Native American children. Unfortunately, as the Seattle Times reported yesterday, that phrase still echoes its painful cadence in education and the legacy of Indian boarding schools. Read more... Topics: Achievement Gap \| Minority Students \| P-20 tightens the seams By allisonm on 26 Dec \| 0 comments I don't know about you, but my December holidays went by way too fast. Busy shopping, busy cooking, and after a fun-filled day with friends, busy re-watching the highlights of the P-20 Council meeting at 10pm last night so I could write this blog. (Thanks, TiVo). Read more... Topics: Washington Learns \| Minority Students \| Math \| K-12 Education Reform \| Early Education \| Dropout Rates \| College & Work Readiness \| Report says more minorities, women headed to college Posted on 26 Dec Tri-City Herald Topics: Achievement Gap \| College & Work Readiness \| Minority Students \| Heritage Leadership Camp -- filling the gap By allisonm on 16 Oct \| 0 comments Videos are powerful. They tell stories. And last week I saw one that inspired me. It was a video about the Heritage Leadership Camp -- a series of day-long workshops developed for middle school boys and run by community-minded men of color. Read more... Topics: Minority Students \| Dropout Rates \| College & Work Readiness \| Achievement Gap \| Wahluke High School Posted on 04 Sep \| 0 comments Wahluke High School, in Eastern Washington’s Grant County, posted 2005 WASL scores that doubled what 10th-graders earned last year. 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