The Education Matters Project

04/25/2014

The difficult debate on Affirmative Action continues. The issue is whether a student's race or ethnicity can factor into admissions decisions. Justice Sotomayor strongly disagrees with the ruling to ban affirmative action.

What do you think?

The 6 to 2 judgment could encourage other states to adopt similar bans on race-based college admissions.

03/03/2014

Article by Suzanne Mettler on the inequality of college today. a lot for those from low income families.

"Higher education is becoming a caste system, separate and unequal for students with different family incomes. Where students attend college affects their chances of graduating and how indebted they will become in the process"

Is higher education actually making inequality worse?

02/19/2014

Hosted the February Session for REVIVE THE DREAM last night.

Thanks to our friends Melissa Zaikos (CEO of Intrinsic Schools) and Melinda Spooner (Executive Director of Achievement Network) for speaking to our Fellows about Technology and the Common Core

Just yesterday, we hosted the fifth session for the Revive the Dream Fellows Program. Our Fellows were lucky to spend the evening with Melinda Spooner (Executive Director of Achievement Network) and Melissa Zaikos (CEO of Intrinsic Charter Schools). The topic of the evening was Technology and the…

01/13/2014

What It's Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College

"I wanted to leave," a Vanderbilt student said. How mentoring programs help him and other first-generation students stay in school.

12/18/2013

The December session for Revive the Dream was last night. Thanks to Adam Anderson for coming out to speak to the Fellows about Chicago Public Schools and the state of education in Chicago

Just yesterday, we hosted the third session for the Revive the Dream Fellows Program. Our Fellows were lucky to spend the evening with Adam Anderson. During the session, the Fellows discussed Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the school closings in early 2013 and Adam’s role as Officer of Portfolio, ...

12/16/2013

Interesting discussion on the US education system. How levels of poverty and teachers may have more impact than improving testing of students.

The key to improving American schools could be improving the quality of teachers. Christine Romans sits down with education historian Diane Ravitch....

12/05/2013

in very different ways depending on your socio-economic upbringing.

“I think the hardest part is not even financial – it’s trying to know about most of the things that your peers know about,” she says. “It can be isolating ... with all these differences you don’t think about until you go to an elite school where you stand out in many different ways.”

A scholarship may get high-achieving, low income students into the Ivies, but life at these schools can be tough when you’re an economic fish out of water

11/20/2013

Second session of Revive the Dream. Thanks to our friend Micki O'Neil for coming out to speak to the Fellows about charter schools last night.

11/04/2013

Inspiring progress being made in online education

Online education is beginning to show itself as a disruptive innovation, introducing more convenient and affordable services that can transform sectors.

10/24/2013

Many of these schools need to do better with low income and first generation students.

U.S. News shows which schools over- and underperform at graduating low-income students.

10/16/2013

Last night we hosted our first seminar for the Revive The Dream Fellows Program. Looks like we picked a great class of fellows.

10/16/2013

First session of Revive the Dream Fellows Program with Charter School Founder John Horan