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Welcome to EducationGuru Weblog!!! I am a passionate educator with more than ten years experience teaching students in K – 8th grade. I am committed to education reform and education equity. I created this blog to fuel the debate about education issues in the news. I want to be a catalyst for education reform that forces politicians and school leaders to address the education problems today. I hope you will join the debate, vote, write your politicians, and get involved at local public schools.

Education in the USA for all but the most privileged students is in a state of crisis. We cannot wait any longer for education reform.

50% of high school students in low income neighborhoods don’t graduate on time

27% of 12th grade students nationally lacked basic reading skills

39% of 12th grade students nationally lacked basic high school math skills

Data Source: The National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2005 (An exam commonly known as the nation’s report card.)

The achievement gap between black and white students nationally continues to be persistent difference. In Massachusetts Only 61 percent of students in high-minority, high-poverty schools passed the 10th grade English MCAS test in 2002, compared to 96 percent in low-minority, low-poverty schools.

Data Source: The Civil Rights Project at UCLA

These disparities severely limit the life prospects of the 13 million children growing up in poverty today. And, because African-American and Latino/Hispanic children are three times as likely to grow up in a low-income area, these disparities also prevent many children of color from truly having equal opportunities in life.

Data Source: National Center for Children in Poverty, 2006

More about who I am? I have been involved in education reform in New York city public and independent schools. Most of my experience is as a technology educator and technology staff developer. I taught an integrated technology curriculum with Math, English, History, Science, and Foreign Languages. I founded an award winning robotics team at a middle school in New York city. I have taught in a wide range of schools from public schools in the South Bronx to elite independent schools on the Upper East side.