In response to the article in the Sacramento Bee, I applaud Kevin MacDonald for daring to ask students why they think there is an achievement gap.
In a response to the New York Times article from 3/23, there are three elements that must be in place for a student to succeed: the home life, the school, and the student.
How do you get rid of a cruddy teacher? The administrator has to do their job.
Perhaps the creation of a privately funded public school is something that should be entertained.
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, we have to teach the way they learn." Change is hard but necessary to our goal of teaching students.
This is a first in a series of articles about those points that make Teaching so awesome.
Education needs to reach beyond those within education for ideas on how to solve its problems. Maybe the X Prize Foundation can figure it out.