achievement gap

If you are not annoyed, you are not paying attention. This should be the new bumper sticker of all in education – especially all of us who work in teaching.

Here is a report from ETS that is just stunning to me -- the percentage of 8th grade math students on free and reduced lunch whose teachers left before the end of the school is year is 67%.

It goes without saying that pop-culture has a dramatic impact on our youth and their studies. When LA Law became a hit show in the 80's, the number of people entering law school sky-rocketed. It was closely followed by ER which created a rush to get into med school. The CSI effect had universities scrambling to create CSI degree programs.