go deeper - further reading by subject
Additional links that will help you dig deeper into topics introduced in class readings and discussions. (This page will be mostly a work-in-progress this semester - please send me any links that you think might be useful here!)
student motivation
"School reform's meager results" by Robert Samuelson
the achievement gap
"Achievement Gap" by Education Week
"Falling Behind" by Roland G. Fryer and Steven D. Levitt, Education Next
grade inflation
"Why grade inflation (even at Harvard) is a big problem" by Valerie Strauss
Grade Inflation -a good collection of topic-related articles on the Huffington Post.
"In Defense of Grade Inflation at Harvard" by Conor Friedersdorf (this article takes a sort of contrarian stance on the issue)