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The Deficit Lens of the 'Achievement Gap' Needs to Be Flipped. Here's How

Does a student have a fixed or a growth mindset? That's the wrong question for us to measure, argues researcher Dave Paunesku.




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Black-White Achievement Gaps Go Hand in Hand With Discipline Disparities

As black-white achievement gaps widen in schools, so, too, do disparities in discipline rates between black and white students, according to a study published Wednesday of 2,000 schools.




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Does 'the Achievement Gap' Evoke a Negative Stereotype? What the Research Says

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.




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Achievement Gaps

In 50 years, the achievement gap has been unchanged, with the poorest 10 percent of students performing three to four years behind the wealthiest 10 percent of peers, finds a new study in the journal Education Next.




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Poverty, Not Race, Fuels the Achievement Gap

A new analysis finds that high-poverty schools are the least effective. But why those schools stifle achievement is harder to figure out.




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The Dangerous Narrative That Lurks Under the 'Achievement Gap'

Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.




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Who's to Blame for the Black-White Achievement Gap?

Why don’t black students perform as well as white students on tests? One reporter considers her personal history to understand this disparity.




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How We Talk About the Achievement Gap Could Worsen Public Racial Biases Against Black Students

The way education media and policymakers frame education debates can have longer-term effects on how the public thinks about students, and which policies they are likely to support to improve students' learning.




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Praying for the children

An OM Chile team member visits two children's homes each week to invest in the kids' lives. She asks people to join her in prayer.




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Hugging grandmas and businessmen

OM Chile's Intensive Training participants spend a morning sharing the gospel in a local plaza in Santiago.




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Meeting again in heaven

An OM Chile short-term participant describes a recent ministry outing as the hardest night of his life but remains hopeful in spite of it all.




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Sharing, encouraging and volcano climbing

OM Chile's Intensive Training participants travel around the south of Chile for two weeks sharing the gospel, encouraging local churches and doing adventure activities.




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Strengthening relationships through supper

In an effort to strengthen relationships with local churches, OM Chile recently held a dinner for local pastors that featured international flavours and testimonies.




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Mixed languages, cultures and experiences

Coordinator Whitney Guthrie is grateful for five months of mixed languages, cultures and experiences during OM Chile’s first missions training for both foreigners and Chileans.




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A friend on the streets

A student with OM Chile’s Intensive Mission Training and a man living on the streets of Santiago dream together about what heaven will be like.




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Successes and struggles in the children's home

OM Chile’s Children’s Ministry knows the power of God’s Word and the support of encouraging adults can change children’s lives.




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Fruits from English classes

Teaching English by acting out Christian songs. Great fun, and surprisingly meaningful for Gabiel, a homeless man in Chile.




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Challenged in Africa

OM Chile worker shares her experience of the AIDSLink International training in South Africa.




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Broken but saved by grace

OM Chile team member Marloes Achterveld witnesses God change the life of a homeless man.




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An ever changing testimony from an ever present God

When asked to share his testimony, a participant of OM Chile's Adventure Team realises just how much God has worked in his life.




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In Pandemic, Digital Access and Parents' Education Made the Biggest Difference in Schools' Response

A comprehensive look at how U.S. schools served students in the aftermath of the coronavirus closures finds that schools responded more fully in communities where parents' education levels were higher.




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How to Make Lessons Cohesive When Teaching Both Remote and In-Person Classes

When some students are online and others in school buildings, how can teachers make sure everyone is learning what they need to learn?




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A message of forgiveness

The 2012 movie of 'Les Miserable' provides an opportunity in Kazakhstan to discuss faith, forgiveness and obedience.




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God works when the lights go out

An electricity cut offers an opportunity for a Central Asian believer to share stories from the Bible with her family, who normally wouldn’t listen.




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Connecting to worship in Central Asia

An app of praise and worship songs is allowing Central Asian believers to share and access music in their heart languages.




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From Central Asia to Central Asia

Central Asians experienced God’s transformation in their own lives. Now they mobilise others to the least reached in their region.




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Scripture for Central Asia

Books played an important role in Aslan's salvation. Now he provides literature to other Central Asians.




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Pioneering in Central Asia

A small team share stories and spread hope among least-reached Muslims in Central Asia.




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Getting REAL at TeenStreet 2011

Teens learn about the REAL Jesus of the Bible and how to have a REAL relationship with Him at TeenStreet 2011 in Offenburg, Germany.




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Engage life

After being healed from a sleep disorder, an Iranian in Germany finds new life in Jesus and wants to give back to his community.




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An "out of this world" experience

Thousands of Teenstreet participants are challenged to join the work in God's plentiful harvest.




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A friend to strangers

The Xenos team in Germany enjoys sharing the love of Jesus with the many immigrants they meet.




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Servant leadership at TeenStreet

Leader of OM Germany serves in the kitchen during TeenStreet, OM’s annual week-long international youth congress that started on Saturday.




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Experiencing God at TeenStreet 2015

TeenStreet 2015 encouraged thousands of participants from around the world to be HOME with God, experiencing His presence in their daily lives.




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Reaching out to refugees at TeenStreet

During TeenStreet 2016 a group of 29 people went to a refugee camp in Oldenburg, Germany to share the love of Christ.




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“Veni vidi vici” at TeenStreet 2016

Summary of TeenStreet 2016 in Oldenburg, Germany




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Experiencing vibrant community at TeenStreet

How does TeenStreet, a 25-year-old ministry to youth, fit into OM's new global mission focus?




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Becoming certified agents on OM Riverboat

Disguised in different roles–from rebellious teenagers to homeless people to prostitutes and pimps–community members responsible for the onshore segment of The Agency experience act out the types of least reached people in society.




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Making friends with the least reached

After an onshore Frisbee game, OM Riverboats community members invite a Muslim woman on board and share God's Word with her.




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Prayer makes a difference

How prayer shaped the history of OM and how important prayer still is today.




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A Year After Woman Goes Missing, Probe Finds Friend's Role In Her Murder

More than a year after a woman's body was recovered from a creek in the Thane district of Maharashtra, police have found that she was pushed to death from a bridge by her lover for resisting his sexual advances, officials said on Tuesday.




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2 Babies Among 6 Missing After Encounter, Meitei Community Unites In Solidarity

Hundreds of members of Manipur's Meitei community came out on the streets in Delhi and other cities in a silent candlelight protest, seeking the safety of six people who have been missing since an encounter broke out between suspected Kuki militants.




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Mithun Chakraborty's Wallet Not Stolen, Has Been Found: BJP

The BJP on Tuesday rejected the assertion that actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty's purse was stolen during a rally in Jharkhand's Dhanbad, claiming that it was misplaced and later found.




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Watch: Passengers Run For Safety As Cruise Ship Tilts In The Atlantic Ocean

Dramatic footage from onboard the cruise ship captures passengers stumbling to maintain balance as the ship tilts severely to one side




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Potential For Life Found On Uranus' Moons, Scientists Reveal

A recent analysis reveals that Voyager's encounter occurred during an intense solar storm, potentially skewing our perception of the Uranian system.




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Violence Over Land Row In Telangana Chief Minister's Constituency, 55 Detained

At least 55 people in Telangana's Vikarabad district were detained on Tuesday for allegedly attacking government officials during a protest against the acquisition of land for a pharmaceutical project.




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Probe Agency Links Assets Worth Rs 4 Crore To Chinese Man In Money Laundering Case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has attached fresh assets worth Rs 4 crore as part of a money laundering investigation against a Chinese national staying "illegally" in India and his associate.




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6,791 Power Connections Provided In Delhi On Lt Governor's Intervention

Power discoms have provided electricity connections to 6,791 of the 10,802 applicants living in Delhi's unauthorised colonies following Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena's intervention, the Raj Niwas said on Tuesday.




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Explained: How Methane Emissions Threaten Climate Goals

Fast-rising methane emissions could undermine efforts to limit global warming by mid-century, prompting scientists and policymakers to urge aggressive action to curb output of the potent greenhouse gas.




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Trump Plans Immigration Crackdown, Aims To End Biden's Entry Programs

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to take a slew of executive actions on his first day in the White House to ramp up immigration enforcement and roll back President Joe Biden's flagship legal entry programs.