Who didn’t turn in their essay? I can guess.
Yesterday, my advisees turned in their post-graduation plans, one piece of their senior portfolio. They’d worked on these essays with another teacher for...
Tag: achievement gap
An experiment on the predictability of achievement
I’ve written before about the predictability of student achievement. The achievement gap is big and sinister, and the reason I’m a teacher is to me...
Race and the predictability of student achievement
A couple posts ago, I wrote about the predictability of student achievement and the need for teachers to interrupt the gap in academic performance. What’...
Fighting the predictability of student achievement
One of the biggest reasons that I’m a teacher is that I’d like to help make the world a slightly less inequitable place. One way is to interrupt th...