When researchers asked hundreds of eighth-graders living near Arkansas’s flagship university whether they’d ever visited a college campus, they were surprised by the response. Only about half said they had.
Eliminating educational inequity and integrating schools is core to our mission at DSST. But essential to tackling these challenges is the internal work we must do of sharpening our own equity lenses as we create more equitable systems. In partnership with our staff, students, and families, The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team is dedicated to cultivating a school network that welcomes open discussion and self reflection around these issues. This has been done in several different ways, including the Affinity Groups that launched last month, annual Equity Working Groups, and two resources to help us reflect on where we have been, assess where we are as a network, and revisit our goals for the future. These are the FYI on DEI and a larger Compendium of Research, illuminating our network’s DEI journey and providing ways for you and your school to join in on this incredible growth.
Colorado’s education debate heated up on the House floor Friday, as race, religion, partisanship, and even reproductive health entered discussion of a measure that aims to make lessons in American government and history more inclusive.
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Throughout the school year, CBS4 along with the Colorado School of Mines and PDC Energy honor Future Leaders, high school students who are excelling in the fields of science, technology, engineering, or math, STEM. Future Leaders winners get $1,000 and a feature on CBS4.
As college admittance letters continue to come in, and Senior Signing Day just around the corner, you can feel the excitement building across the network as we celebrate our incredible seniors. If it wasn’t for the epic bomb cyclone this week, Cole’s Class of 2019 would have celebrated their 100% college acceptance success on Thursday as well. But on Monday afternoon, middle schoolers, high schoolers, friends and family of the College View Founding Class packed into the gym, decorated with posters created by 9th & 10th graders, to celebrate their founding class.
For many years, Derrell Bradford says, he never understood why his mother and grandmother used to gather at the kitchen table when he was a child, debating whose address they would lie about to get him access to a better public school.
In a vibrant, multicultural society, representing the richness of students’ lives in a class or school library takes a conscious effort. Including writers and fictional characters with a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and life circumstances is a way to increase the chances that students will find both windows and mirrors in the library—books that reflect their lives, and ones that give them insight into the lives and experiences of people who aren’t like them.
UPDATE (5pm, 3/13): Schools and the Home Office will be closed again on Thursday 3/14 due to continuing poor weather and road conditions.
The number of students enrolled in public charter schools has steadily grown since the inception of the charter model in the 1990s, and now accounts for 6 percent of the total number of students enrolled in public schools across the country.1 This statistic alone demonstrates the important role that charter schools play in the delivery of public education in the forty-four states and the District of Columbia that have adopted charter school laws.2 Over this period of growth, however, the charter school model has been the subject of heated controversy, including whether they equitably serve all students regardless of race, class, sex, disability, or first language.
