North Carolina won a $400 million federal Race to the Top grant in 2010 to help struggling schools improve. But the effort has not been a big success, and student suspensions have risen, according to analysis by public policy professor Helen Ladd and a colleague from Northwestern.
The News & Observer
As education policymakers in North Carolina grapple with how to improve low-performing schools, they might want to consider what’s happened in London, where since the late 1990s the academic performance of elementary and secondary school students has risen dramatically, write Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske.
the News & Observer
A Duke education policy expert says the state’s charter schools have always been racially imbalanced and it’s only gotten worse. “We’ve got white charter schools – disproportionately white charter schools – and disproportionately minority charter schools. It’s what we’ve worked hard to avoid. It’s a pattern worth worrying about.”
WUNC radio
