Three years ago, Heather Vogell, an investigative reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, sat down with a data analyst to crunch some numbers. She had just received the latest crop of scores for the CRCT, a state standardized test. Curiously, Vogell noted, several schools statewide had ch... Read more...
A charter school that opened this year with high expectations and wealthy, powerful backers scored at the bottom of all schools in all of Northeast Florida in School Grade score. KIPP Impact Middle, a college preparatory school, earned an F in its opening year. "We're disappointed," Principal Ro... Read more...
A protest of the closing of the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a Detroit school for pregnant teens, became a victory celebration. Actor Danny Glover speaks as Dalisha Thomas, 17, with daughter Kendall, listens. / REGINA H. BOONE/Detroit Free Press BY CHASTITY PRATT DAWSEY Tiffani Baldwin st... Read more...
Patricia A. Ackerman - Executive Director of the Chalkdust Education Foundation "Can you hear me, now?" was a popular query in a cell phone ad a few years back. The caller was seeking confirmation that two-way communication was occurring. By inference, and assuming no language barrier or audi... Read more...
By MERIBAH KNIGHT After discovering last week that nearly a quarter of their teachers were being dismissed, students at Austin Polytechnical Academy decided to take extreme action. Holding secret planning sessions under the guise of a robotics team meeting, they plotted. First, they gathered ... Read more...
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The UK performs poorly in an international league table showing how many disadvantaged pupils succeed "against the odds" at school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has studied how pupils from poor backgrounds can succeed academically. It says that "self-confide... Read more...
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by Mr.ChollyHudnall - Newsvine.com Tigrett Middle School eighth-grader Bobby Bond credits his fifth-grade teacher as the first to encourage him as a student.He was the first black man that I've had for a teacher," said Bond, 13, who is also black. "He always told me to do my best. He would sit a... Read more...
THE MOM BRIGADE: Nettelhorst was a failing educational backwater in Lake View (Chicago, Illinois) when some determined moms got involved-and sparked a tremendous improvement. On a windy morning this past fall, 20 parents gathered inside Nettelhorst Elementary School in east Lake View, some with... Read more...
It's a topic often shuttered behind backyard fences or resigned to a picture-frame in the corner of an office. The disquieting crossroads where motherhood confronts job ambition comes into full view in a new anthology of women's reflections, "Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict... Read more...