educational equalization

A collection of Prep for Prep students share stories about the experiences they gained from the program designed to help gifted inner city youths receive adequate preparatory education for college.

Discusses why alternatives to tracking and ability grouping are necessary and examines promising research on untracked schools.

A history of African-American education, tracing the struggles of African-Americans for equal education rights from colonial times through the late twentieth century.

Explores the relationship between academic achievement and low socioeconomic status, arguing that chronic exposure to poverty causes negative physical changes to the brain, and identifying key factors that can help students achieve emotionally, socially, and academically.

Discusses the potential benefits of detracking, including raising achievement and narrowing the achievement gap, and offers advice on using the system in schools.

Essays from various sources provide a wide range of opinions on affirmative action, examining the pros and cons and clarifying the issues surrounding it.

Explores the role education has played in gaining women's rights in America over the past one hundred years.

Presents educational and legal arguments in favor of single-sex education, providing accounts of three inner-city all-girls' public schools, discussing the myths and realities of gender and schooling, and considering the questions of how best to provide an appropriate education for girls and boys.

Examines the 2002 Federal "No Child Left Behind" law and explains how this law actually damages both the schools and its students including the "dumbing down" of standardized tests rather than setting higher standards of achievement.