by nour | Jan 21, 2020 | Insights
With all of the talk of education reform and what’s needed to revitalize public schools, it’s refreshing to read Paul Tough’s new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why. In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the...
by nour | Jan 21, 2020 | Insights
In the spring of 2014, I met Dr. Cedric Magee, principal of Warren Central Junior High in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As we walked the halls, Cedric told me that he began his career as an educator teaching a behavioral modification class consisting of second through sixth...
by nour | Jan 21, 2020 | Insights
Not all of us are born child prodigies! Therefore, a quality education can be a great enabler with the capacity to empower and create opportunity, particularly for young girls. Equally, a lack of education can disempower those who need an opportunity the most and can...
by nour | Jan 21, 2020 | Insights
Millions of school-age students in America live in poverty. You don’t have to teach in a blighted urban area or a depressed rural region to teach students who are from a poor family. The lives of poor students are often very different from those of their more affluent...
by nour | Jan 19, 2020 | Insights
Immigrant and refugee youth who enter the United States during their secondary school years face a daunting set of challenges. In addition to learning a new language and adjusting to U.S. classroom norms, they must quickly fill gaps in their subject-matter knowledge...
by nour | Jan 19, 2020 | Insights
In recent years, there has been a great deal of public angst about refugee resettlement in the U.S. and Europe. Americans are deeply divided on the issue. For instance, a Pew Research Center study published in May of this year found that only a quarter of Republicans...
