Ruth Wattenberg

Feb 6, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Ruth Wattenberg

Ruth Wattenberg is a former member and president of the State Board of Education. Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Before the pandemic shut down D.C. schools, each public school, like each student, got a report card. Every fall, the school report card included a STAR rating, from one through five. The rating was based on a formula designed and used by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, D.C.’s education agency.

Jan 23, 2024 | nasbe.org | Ruth Wattenberg |Sy Doan |Jocelyn Pickford

A common base of content knowledge and coherent, comprehensive, and sequential curricula to deliver it are prerequisites for reading comprehension. Most students are not getting what they need.

May 26, 2023 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Ruth Wattenberg

You can’t fix what you can’t face. But one thing I’ve noticed over and over again in my years as an education advocate in D.C. is the ways in which the District’s current education system prevents the community from confronting educational problems and undermines our ability to discuss and remedy them.