Making the grade

Article Abstract:

Teachers are increasingly using portfolios to evaluate students. These portfolios, which are a compilation of students' work such as math exercises, writing assignments, book reports, photographs and videotapes, are replacing report cards in assessing students' progress, since the latter do not accurately reflect a child's development.

Innovations, Evaluation, Students, Student evaluation, Grading and marking (Students), Grading (Education), Student records

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Afrocentric schools: separate but better?

Article Abstract:

Public schools in predominantly African-American neighborhoods are embracing Afrocentric curricula, focusing on achievements of blacks in all scholastic fields. African-American children are motivated to learn, but detractors say it gives a distorted vision of history.

Education, African Americans, Curricula, Study and teaching, African American children, Urban schools, African American studies

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Are public schools making the grade?

Article Abstract:

Author Jonathan Kozol talks about how property taxes provide educational funding for affluent neighborhoods while poor ones are deprived.

Authors, Writers, Interview, Kozol, Jonathan

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