On Wednesday at the Chapel Hill Public Library, students from Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute and Minority Student Achievement Network led a workshop in both English and Spanish. (chapelboro.com)
Now, the independent federal agency is taking a new tack by turning to universities and nonprofit groups to address specific problems, such as a dearth of science and math educators, inadequate teacher knowledge of those fields, and disappointing levels of minority student achievement in the subjects. (edweek.org)
Supporting the school boards, one amicus has assured us that «both early desegregation research and recent statistical and econometric analyses... indicate that there are positive effects on minority student achievement scores arising from diverse school settings.» (caselaw.findlaw.com)