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Washington Heights High School Seniors Plan March to Post Office to Mail in ... - Sacramento Bee
Washington Heights High School Seniors Plan March to Post Office to Mail in ...
Sacramento Bee
"This is a proud day for the entire WHEELS school community, especially for this year's seniors and their families," said New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott. "Creating a successful new school is not easy, so it's truly remarkable to see ...
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Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement Gap In US? - Huffington Post
Will More Latino Teachers Solve The Latino Achievement Gap In US?
Huffington Post
This is precisely what has to change, according to Ofelia Garcia,Professor in the Ph.D. programs of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. ...
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Big City: At Elite Prep School, Abuse Case Won’t Go Away
A federal lawsuit claims that the Poly Prep school in Brooklyn engaged in moral mismanagement for decades, regarding the activities of a football coach who died years ago.
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The Learning Network Blog: Compare-Contrast, Cause-Effect, Problem-Solution: Common 'Text Types' in The Times
Suggestions for helping students understand common expository "text structures" like cause and effect, compare and contrast and problem-solution that appear often in The Times. For each, we include Times examples in both print and multimedia
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School of Thought - bestofneworleans.com
School of Thought
bestofneworleans.com
He started as a special-education teacher in Oakland, Calif. with Teach For America before working at the New York City department of education, teaching at a KIPP school in Harlem, going to business school at Wharton, moving to New Orleans and opening ...
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SchoolBook: Mama, What Is Our Culture?
Because of baby sitter/husband communication bobbles, our undecorated flags were apparently sitting on the kitchen table rather than ready for posting outside my twins' prekindergarten classroom. No problem, the teachers said, bring them Monday. But I did have a problem: What is our culture, and how could we possibly depict it on a flag?
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On Education: Military Children Outdo Public School Students on NAEP Tests
In the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, schools on the nation’s military bases again outperformed public schools.
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Chicago City Council Profile: Ariel E. Reboyras - NBC Chicago (blog)
Chicago City Council Profile: Ariel E. Reboyras
NBC Chicago (blog)
Alderman Ariel E. Reboyras began his career as a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools and has dedicated his life since to public service. Reboyras is a native of New York City and moved to Chicago when he was 12 years old. He majored in Education at ...
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SchoolBook: Protest Reaches 900 Principals, and Climbing
The number of principals who have signed onto a letter objecting to New York State’s system of teacher evaluations has grown by 150 in the last week.
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Op-Ed Contributors: The Unaddressed Link Between Poverty and Education
Federal education policy seems blind to the relationship between poverty and student performance.
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State Takeovers of School Districts Have Had Mixed Results
Turning control of districts over to the state has improved test scores in places like Philadelphia and Oakland, Calif., but hasn’t solved every problem.
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Newark School District in Debate Over State Control
The state took over Newark schools in 1995, but with an influx of money, some parents and officials have begun to seek more local control.
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Ronald J. Gorsky: Have Passion for Every Student - New York Times
Ronald J. Gorsky: Have Passion for Every Student
New York Times
I went to Canarsie High School and Brooklyn College. I was a special education major because it was something that I felt a great emotional connection with. I began teaching in a middle school. I then worked in Brooklyn high schools for 12 years, ...
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From Russia to Raleigh with love: Teaching 'The Nutcracker' in the South - CNN
From Russia to Raleigh with love: Teaching 'The Nutcracker' in the South
CNN
Kostritzky burnished her reputation for having a gift with children at the School of American Ballet, the in-house school for the New York City Ballet, where she taught more than 300 students in 18 years. The school is considered the premier training ...
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SchoolBook: Ronald J. Gorsky: Have Passion for Every Student
The principal of a transfer school on Staten Island says his staff provides personal attention to students that is not available at big high schools, serving as the "mom and pop store" to the big-box chain stores. And it shows in the results. "They should be knocking down the door to get here," he says.
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New York City Education Department Targets 19 Schools to Close
Two large high schools, Washington Irving High and Grace Dodge Career and Technical Education High, would be closed rather than receive federal stimulus money to improve.
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Chris Christie says New Jersey teachers only work 180 days a year, average $60 ... - PolitiFact
Chris Christie says New Jersey teachers only work 180 days a year, average $60 ...
PolitiFact
The average teacher salary in New Jersey for 2009-10 was $65130 – the fourth highest in the country behind New York, Massachusetts and California, according to a 2011 report from the National Education Association. In a speech last month to students at ...
NJEA says Christie's argument that teachers 'only work 180 days' is inaccuratenewjerseynewsroom.com
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'Occupy Wall Street' Teacher Caught Faking Docs - Fox News (blog)
Fox News (blog)
'Occupy Wall Street' Teacher Caught Faking Docs
Fox News (blog)
A leader of Occupy Wall Street abruptly quit his job as a city public school teacher after getting caught red-handed falsifying time sheets, The Post has learned. Former South Brooklyn Community HS science teacher ...
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Web Tutors Become Stars Far From Classroom
Sites have grown exponentially, helped by hordes of grateful parents whose dim memories of algebra or trigonometry are not enough to help with their children's homework.
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The Learning Network Blog: Student Opinion | Are We Losing the Art of Listening?
Student Opinion | How important is it to develop the skill of listening?
