A recent report that up to 70% of the nation's African-American and Hispanic elementary and secondary school students are in classrooms with predominantly minority enrollments has been received by civil rights leaders with little surprise. The trend toward increasing segregation is most apparent in the Northeast and South. (MSE)

President Bush says that the No Child Left Behind Act is working, pointing to student-achievement results from a single subsection of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and tentative Reading First data. But the evidence available to support his claim is questionable. The data Mr. Bush cited are from just the "long-term…

A recent report by a national policy studies institute dedicated to Latino affairs proposes that the cycle of educational failure among Latinos can be broken with more active efforts to recruit, prepare, and retain Latino teachers. This is especially so, it is argued, because of growth of the Latino community. (MSE)

This article discusses the continuing growth of student participation in the Advanced Placement program and how schools increasingly recast the program as being within reach of any student willing to do the work, regardless of academic standing. The Advanced Placement program was established in 1955 to give high-achieving students access to…

More than a decade ago, no one held out much hope for the poor, immigrant children at Kennedy Middle School. Nobody thinks that now. This article presents how Kennedy Middle School transformed and beat all the odds to be a "school to watch." In many ways, Kennedy Middle School has become a model of middle-grades improvement. Test scores,…