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Author Archives: Amy Stuart Wells

Amy Stuart Wells is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and a professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she directs Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools.

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OPINION: New York City’s new middle school admissions will test white parents

by Amy Stuart Wells December 23, 2020December 22, 2020

The recent news that New York City’s Department of Education will suspend the use of fifth graders’ prior test scores or grades as admissions criteria for some of the most sought-after middle schools — known as screened middle schools — marks a huge, even if temporary departure from the educational system’s overreliance on test scores […]

OPINION: From one white parent to another: Don’t pick schools because they’re selective and mostly white

by Amy Stuart Wells March 6, 2019March 30, 2020
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