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• City shifts admissions policy for magnet, selective schools

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  In the wake of a federal order placing race off-limits as a key admissions criterion to the citys most competitive schools, the Chicago Public Schools will use a battery of socioeconomic factors to distribute the coveted spots -- a strategy officials hope will maintain racial integration while enhancing economic ...
  9 hours ago

• School visit: The new pilot school run by teachers

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 626
  Geeky Mama visits the Boston Teachers Union pilot school in Jamaica Plain (so for West Zone kids), explains why "theres still work to be done, but it seems they have a decent foundation for a school." Read more
  13 hours ago

• DPS Weeds, Sows and Repots School Lineup

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 134
  At the level of a school board in a District like Denvers with more than a hundred school programs and 70,000+ students, it doesnt work to have the board micromanage daily school operations. Its main jobs are to higher and fire senior district administrators, and to make big decisions on issues like opening schools, ...
  14 hours ago

• Haslett Board of Education begins developing policies in response to drunk shaming incident

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The Haslett Board of Education on Monday night referred to its policy committee the task of developing new policies to address issues arising from a 2007 drunk-shaming incident that came to the public’s attention recently. Officials determined during their work session that the district ...
  20 hours ago

• Sex In Elementary School Library? WTF Is Going On?

  
  Happy Nappy Head — Authority: 121
  Yeah folks, theres not much that I can say to this without frothing at the mouth in rage and disbelief. I will say this much. No child, male or female, should take advantage of another child and that little boy was violated. We have to remember that boys can be and are victims of sexual molestation by some FAST ass ...
  1 day ago

• Shiloh Elementary Students Celebrate Book Characters

  
  The Monroe Scoop — Authority: 428
  Shiloh students celebrate book characters. James Ottaway, a teacher at Shiloh Elementary, is dressed as Tacky the Penguin as he leads his first-grade class around the school’s track during the school’s annual “character walk.” The students and staff at Shiloh Elementary School celebrated book ...
  1 day ago

• A+ Schools Releases Report On Pittsburgh Public Schools

  
  WDUQNews — Authority: 441
  A+ Schools has released its 5Th annual report to the community on public school progress in Pittsburgh. The goal of the report is to identify answers to several questions that include progress on lowering the achievement gap, finding if there has been progress on the PSSA state examinations and individual school ...
  1 day ago

• $48 million dollar Referendum :My inclination, as a father of a young daughter is to vote yes

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 486
  I found the below comment from an earlier thread interesting: "People seem to be confusing annual operating needs with capital needs. Voting against a referendum for important capital needs that have nothing to do with salaries and benefits is not the answer." I am relatively new in this town (2006) and moved here ...
  1 day ago

• One Small Step For Teacher Merit Pay

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Chicago Tribune’s John Keilman reports that the Chicago northern suburb of Evanston has started a system of merit pay for teachers. For the first time ever in any Illinois school district, teachers will be evaluated by the individual test scores of their students. This judgment will then combine with more ...
  1 day ago

• Bright & Early: Wait-Listed Edition

  
  Nashvillest — Authority: 476
  Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee’s drug assistance program for people with HIV/AIDS now has a waiting list thanks to folks losing jobs and insurance, along with an increase in the number of people living with the disease . Those overseeing the program hope that their own services can be supplemented with federal ...
  1 day ago

• Duluth East band to perform at veterans concert

  
  Howie Blog — Authority: 143
  The Duluth East band will perform at the 11th annual Veteran’s Concert at St. Scholastica on Monday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. The concert has been an annual tradition for many to hear great patriotic music, while paying tribute to our nation’s service men and women. The concert will include performances by the Freshman ...
  1 day ago

• Jefferson Parish Public Schools – Manger Danger: Let’s Keep Uncle Sam Out Of Church Affairs

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 461
  
  2 days ago

• St. Louis Public Schools needs help from many hands

  
  The Platform — Authority: 567
  (AP Photo/Chicago Tribune, Bill Hogan) Three hundred public school professionals from districts throughout the state descended on schools throughout the St. Louis School District over several days last April and May. They were teachers, principals, superintendents, librarians, counselors, technology advisers and ...
  2 days ago

• TEAMMATES DAN DROZE and DAVE HARRIS:  WHEN SEPARATE WAS CONSIDERED EQUAL IN AMERICA!

  
  Black Men In America — Authority: 106
  By Harold Bell In Washington, DC in 1954 there were two important Supreme Court decisions reached on the same day in May.  The decisions were Bolling vs. Sharpe and Brown vs. Board of Education. The two decisions changed how public school education was practiced in America. Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
  2 days ago

• Singapore Math pilot in New Milford: SPED students ahead of general ed students

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 131
  Steve Hs question - whether any of us knows a district that has replaced Everyday Math, TERC, Trailblazers, etc. with Singapore or Saxon - has prompted me finally to post the material I saved on New Milford, CTs 2006 pilot program comparing Everyday Math, Saxon Math, and Singapore Math. (I can email copies of the ...
  2 days ago

• The Education Wars

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 444
  So why is the AFT in New York silent about the attempt by administrators to can teachers based on "incompetence" as implemented by a "unit" called "Teacher Performance Unit"? When one knows how complacent teachers unions are with the administrators shenanigans, then there is no reason to ask the question.
  2 days ago

• A vote for the Curley School

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 626
  Geeky Mama, in the middle of that pre-lottery school hunt unique to Boston parents, is impressed by the Curley School in Jamaica Plain.
  2 days ago

• Gloucester Parents Stage Protest Against Crooked Charter School Approval

  
  Schools Matter — Authority: 525
  (Photo from Boston Globes Jonathan Wiggs). Parents were out in force Saturday as State officials reluctantly met in Gloucester to once more air the corrupt process that rammed through the approval of an unwanted and unneeded charter school in Gloucester. From the Gloucester Daily Times: . . . .Prior to the ...
  2 days ago

• McNerney and the county freeholders all Democrats approved $1M payout for Bergen Tech Superintendent!

  
  The Ridgewood Blog — Authority: 486
  The $1M payout Sunday, November 8, 2009 Last updated: Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:30 AM BY MICHAEL GARTLAND The Record STAFF WRITER http://www.northjersey.com/news/The_1M_payout.html # Robert Aloia, the embattled superintendent of the Bergen County Technical School District, could walk away with more than $1 ...
  2 days ago

• “…radical reform of education…the goal was socialism…”

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  The Chalcedon Foundation The Plan to Socialize America The Progressives’ plan to socialize America required the most thorough and radical reform of American education. To this they applied their extensive knowledge of behavioral psychology. That the goal was socialism was clearly known and understood throughout ...
  3 days ago

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