Stamford Achieves

Stamford Achieves Stamford Achieves forges alliances among families and education, civic, business and religious leaders to close the achievement gap in our community.

03/09/2016

People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines.

03/07/2016

The exam has been decried as out of touch and unfair. Now, the College Board is fighting back.

03/03/2016

CHICAGO — For Kimberly Wilborn, a lesson about Nelson Mandela made it all click. “Ms. Plante was talking about Nelson Mandela and how he forgave his jailers,” remembers the eighth grader, who is being raised by her aunt on Chicago’s South Side. “And I thought if he can forgive them, I can forgive my…

02/10/2016

A new study looks at why they’re largely absent from majors that lead to high-paying jobs.

01/14/2016

After 50 years, the achievement gap between white and black students has barely narrowed.

01/07/2016

The racial gap in who’s graduating from college has widened since 2007, a new report shows. While more blacks and Latinos are graduating from college now, the percentage of whites graduating has grown even faster. About 33 percent of African-American adults had at least a two-year college degree in…

01/05/2016

Here we are, at the start of 2016, and the landscape is suddenly significantly different for those looking to improve public education. On December 10th, 2015, President Obama signed into law Every Child Succeeds, which will replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The new federal education bill continu…

01/04/2016

One educational mystery is exactly why it’s so much harder to graduate from college in four years these days. Back in the 1970s, almost 60 percent of eventual bachelor’s degree recipients graduated within four years of finishing high school. By the 1990s, that had dropped to under 45 percent. (Data…

11/25/2015

America's boys are in trouble.

11/06/2015

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Three years ago, when Public School 446 opened in a building where two others had failed, it inherited many of the youngest students. Among them was a second-grader who was supposed to be in fourth grade and was reading at a kindergarten level. The boy was one of a handful of studen…

10/29/2015

Poverty and related problems hurt all children in things like school readiness, but a study finds boys are more sensitive to such factors.

10/28/2015

Connecticut students tested at about the same levels in math and reading as they did in 2013, according to results released by the National Assessment of

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