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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg faced tough questions for a second day Friday on comments he made about two of the most sensitive issues in New York City education: teacher quality and class sizes.
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 10:42
Sosland OpenSource Summer 2010
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 10:05
Judged a Failure by the Data, a School Succeeds Where It Counts
From The New York Times:
Aniah McAllister was a lost girl of New York, one of tens of thousands of children edging toward an adulthood drained of hope.
At 18, she possessed just 17 high school credits; she knew the streets and little more. She wandered, almost on a whim, into Bushwick Community High School in Brooklyn, a last-chance school for last-chance kids.
Two years later?
"I'm 20 years old, I have 46 credits, and I want to go to college."
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:55
NY State Threatens to Pull Millions for Schools in the City and Elsewhere
From The New York Times:
New York State's education commissioner threatened on Tuesday to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal grants to struggling schools in New York City and nine other districts statewide if they do not prove by Saturday that they will carry out new evaluation systems for teachers and principals.
Officials and union leaders in each district must first agree on the details of the evaluation systems, like how much weight students' standardized test scores will have on the annual ratings that teachers and principals receive. Compromise has thus far proved elusive.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 12:16
Can education alone save the Jewish People?
From The Canadian Jewish News:
Since biblical times, we Jews have been a famously contrary lot, and the erosion of traditional values in the modern period has only deepened the divisions. Yet there is a single article of faith proclaimed with startling unanimity and certitude by all who profess to care about the survival of the Jewish people.
From one end of the broad Jewish spectrum to the other, from secular humanists to the most rigidly devout, Jewish education is promoted as the key to securing the Jewish future. In last week’s CJN, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman added his powerful voice to the chorus. As he put it, “Nothing is more crucial to advancing this goal [of ensuring the continuation of a strong Jewish identity] than Jewish education. At all levels, from the earliest age in the home, through formal and informal education at all levels, there is no alternative to exposing the next generation to Jewish values, traditions and identity.”Read the full article in The Canadian Jewish News...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011 11:59
Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
From The New York Times:
By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing.
Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do not graduate on time. And hundreds of children, from kindergartners to seniors, withdraw within months after they enroll.
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Monday, 05 December 2011 12:18
Mayor Hits Nerve in Remarks on Class Sizes and Teachers
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