Skip to main contentWeekend Reads: Boston’s most elite school doesn’t reflect the city’s diversity
By | April 29, 2016, 2:42pm UTC - Boston’s most elite high school, where a single test determines admission, has a diversity problem. (Boston Globe)
- The problem — and the solutions tried — mirrors what’s happened in New York’s most selective schools. (Chalkbeat)
- Amid cascading problems with the state’s new exam, Tennessee canceled testing for most students this year. (Chalkbeat)
- Sixty years after federal authorities forced integration in Little Rock, the city’s schools are deeply segregated. (The Atlantic)
- Kentucky dramatically narrowed the funding gap between schools in rich and poor districts, but disparities remain. (NPRed)
- Some say magic propelled Massachusetts schools to their top-tier status. Others credit new money. (WGBH)
- Former Memphis schools chief Kriner Cash says he can fix schools in Buffalo. That’s a big promise. (The 74 Million)
- To curb segregation, it’s better to end gifted programs than change how students get in, two researchers argue. (Quartz)
- Chicago’s most popular charter schools will get to add students despite a cap on charter enrollment. (Catalyst)
- Prince played a free concert for Los Angeles students in 1985 but he didn’t want you to know that. (L.A. Times)