Updated: 7 weeks 5 days ago
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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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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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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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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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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?
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The Learning Network Blog: 6 Q's About the News | Russian Protesters Cry, 'We Exist!'
Why did tens of thousands of Russians take to the streets on Saturday?
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The Learning Network Blog: Test Yourself | Math, Dec. 12, 2011
Can you calculate the percentage of difference in market share between Beats and iPod headphones, if given Beats' sales, the total revenue of the headphones market, the costs of both brands of headphones and the number of iPod headphones sold?
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Briefly: Education: 'Cheating' Caught on Film Shakes U.K. Exams System
This year's GCSEs and A-levels have been thrown into an uproar after a newspaper filmed examiners telling teachers which subjects are likely to come up and even which questions to expect.
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The Texas Tribune: Several Efforts Under Way to Measure Effect of State’s Budget Cuts on Schools
At least four reports are being prepared that will examine for the first time how a historic reduction in financing has affected public schools.
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For-Profit College Rules Scaled Back After Lobbying
A ferocious pushback led Education Department and White House officials to relax an effort to cut off the huge flow of federal financial aid to unfit educational programs.
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Longer Standardized Tests Are Planned, Displeasing Some School Leaders
The move addresses a need to better assess questions for future exams in New York State.
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Bloomberg’s Remarks on Teachers Draw Scrutiny
In a speech at M.I.T., Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg advocated fewer educators and more pupils per room.
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At Center of Penn State Scandal, Jerry Sandusky Tells His Own Story
In an extensive interview, Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach, insisted that he had never sexually abused any child.
