In April 2009, McKinsey & Co. released a report that rocked both the educational and business worlds, putting a $700 billion price tag on the the difference between the performances of high- and low- income K-12 students. Jonathan Schorr recently spoke at the GSB on how a "fascinating coalition of political opposites" is coming together to try to bridge this divide.

Tagged: K-12 Education, Business, Education

A new study provides the most detailed analysis of the effects of the California High School Exit Exam to date, finding that the policy has lowered the graduation rates of girls and low-achieving students of color by 15-20 percentage points.

 

 

Tagged: K-12 Education, Education

Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies has made grants to five new interdisciplinary faculty projects.  The projects will examine China's environmental protection efforts, investigate ties between climate change and civil conflict in poor countries, fight the effects of anemia on the academic performance of Chinese children, develop curriculum units on infectious pandemic diseases, and study the effects of international migration on human well-being.

Tagged: International Initiative, International Issues, Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Law, Medicine

Professor William Koski discusses President Obama's educational reform plan in an interview on KCBS radio.

Tagged: K-12 Education, Education, Law

Stanford professors, staff and students are using K-12 initiative grant money to turn at-risk youth into environmental stewards with the successful launch of a grassroots program in Redwood City, California.

Tagged: ecology, Education Venture Fund, teaching, K-12 Education, Education

Even before Katrina, New Orleans education system was in dire straits. People like Stanford Alumna Channa Cook aim to fix that.

Tagged: charter schools, teaching, K-12 Education, Education

In a recent NEWSWEEK interview, Obama advisor and Stanford education professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses standardized testing, teachers unions, and the lessons U.S. schools should take from other countries.

Tagged: schools, teaching, K-12 Education, Education

In this monthly feature from Stanford Humanities, education Professor Eamonn Callan discusses the controversial issue of public funding for special education, and philosophy Professor Debra Satz explores the link between equal opportunities in education and equal citizenship.

Tagged: K-12 Education, Education, Humanities & Sciences

VIDEO: The Stanford charter school program interweaves the School of Education's training and research with a real educational system. This enables the University to train better teachers and helps prepare students in the East Palo Alto community for college.

Tagged: charter school, teaching, K-12 Education, Education

Not long after a congressional panel warned the country was splitting into separate societies divided by race, the nation took notice. More money was pumped into urban schools. Opportunities once reserved for white students began opening to their black peers. New teachers were encouraged to take jobs in city schools.

That was 40 years ago. But educators and policy experts who gathered last week at Stanford said that many achievements that peaked in the country's schools by the mid-1970s have eroded.

Tagged: learning, poverty, race, youth, K-12 Education, Education