School Districts All About Minority Student Achievement
Posted by Chance Brown on January 27, 2009
There is a group determined not to stand idly by while large groups of minority students fail. They are doing something to change the situation. They are called the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN).
“The Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) is a national coalition of multiracial, suburban-urban school districts that have come together to study achievement gaps that exist in their districts.
Since its inception in 1999 MSAN has worked fervently to discover and propose strategies to change school practices and structures that keep these achievement gaps in place. To this end, districts work collaboratively to conduct and publish research, analyze policies, and examine practices that affect the academic performance of students of color, specifically African American and Latino/a students.”
Mainstream media seems to only talk about the problems. MSAN is interested in finding solutions
For more information about MSAN or if your district might be interested in joining the Network, please contact the Executive Director, Dr. Madeline Hafner at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, at mhafner@wisc.edu.
