Juan Sepulveda, who's leading the White House initiative on educational excellence for Latinos, is speaking today in Dallas. I'm going this afternoon to hear him, so I will report next week about what he said.
As readers of The Education Front know, Latinos and education is a theme we've repeatedly discussed on that site. Last month, we had Dallas principals Tony Tovar and Rawly Sanchez blog about what they thought worked in their largely Latino schools, Adamson and Sunset high schools.
Adamson and Sunset indeed have shown progress. But here's what I worry about: even in schools showing progress, many students are far from being ready for college.
I've spent some time recently crunching numbers about how many students in the southern half of our city actually pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills at the "commended level." That's the bar that tells educators whether their students are on a track that will lead to college. READ FULL STORY
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