Urban schools chat today

The Education Week website is holding an online chat from 3 to 4 p.m. Eastern today (Monday, May 5) on achievement in urban schools. From the edWeek website (where the chat will occur later today):

Public school students in the nation’s largest cities are scoring higher than ever before on state and national tests, according to the annual Beating the Odds report from the Council of the Great City Schools. But only about half of students in those cities are graduating from high school, as reported in Cities in Crisis, prepared by the EPE Research Center. 

What does the research tell us about education reform in cities, achievement gaps, and the road ahead for urban schools? Join Christopher B. Swanson and Michael Casserly as they take your questions on public schools in the nation’s largest cities.

You can submit a question in advance here. Also, have a look at this recent research from the Annenberg Institute showing how grassroots community organizing efforts are building stronger schools. Everyday Democracy has tools to help your district do this sort of hands-on organizing, no matter what your school district's size.