black students

Q&A

Tennessee

July 19, 2019

Memphis schools chief looking for new ideas because ‘what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working’

Chalkbeat sat down with Superintendent Joris Ray this week to discuss an initiative on black boys and how he hopes to get more students reading on grade level.

new schools

Chicago

November 14, 2018

Charter-school backers pack little-advertised Chicago hearing about new charters

Charter-school supporters packed a little-publicized hearing called Wednesday evening to gather input on proposals to open three specialized charter schools in Chicago.

Fresh data

Chicago

September 26, 2018

Chicago SAT averages fall short of cutoff for main campuses of University of Illinois

Chicago Public School juniors scored an average of 951 on the SAT this past spring, lower than the minimum score needed to gain…

checking biases

Chicago

August 30, 2018

Banned from texting students, educators are urged to be ‘warm and demanding’ to make connections

Chicago educators learn about personalizing learning, and surmounting new barriers in reaching out to kids — particularly black boys.

outside the box

Chicago

August 14, 2018

How one Chicago principal is leaning on data to help black boys

Test scores were rising at Fuller Elementary School when Marilyn McCottrell took over in 2016. Yet troubling trends loomed behind the numbers.

teachers of color

New York

January 8, 2018

How diverse is the teaching force in your district? A new analysis highlights the gap between students and teachers of color

In New York City, as in districts across the country, there is a glaring disconnect between many students’ race or ethnicity and their teachers.

diversity push

Colorado

February 21, 2017

Denver Public Schools is identifying more students of color as highly gifted, but big disparities remain

An effort by Denver Public Schools to bring more students of color into magnet programs for the highly gifted has led to some progress, but there's a long way to go.

Student & School Performance

Tennessee

December 1, 2015

Report on black students finds ‘jaw-dropping’ gap between graduation rate and college readiness in Tennessee

A new report on opportunities for the nation’s African-American students lists Tennessee among the top five states for graduating its black students, but among the…

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