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NY Education Department wasting money on office furniture
ALBANY -- Welcome to the opulent state Education Department -- where fully outfitted workspaces sit unused, and there's so much furniture on hand that the agency gives away perfectly good "surplus" to employees. As The Post revealed...
The Broad Foundation Announces 2010 Finalists for $2 Million Broad Prize; Five Urban School Districts Honored for Significant Student Gains
LOS ANGELES – The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today the five school districts that are finalists for the 2010 Broad Prize for Urban Education, an annual $2 million award that honors urban school districts making the greatest progress in America in raising student achievement. ...DCF kids can't be jailed for their own `best interest,' court says
A Miami appeals court has ruled that children in state care who also are facing delinquency charges cannot be jailed simply for their own `best interest.' ...Texas district streams video wirelessly on demand »
A Texas school system has set up a wireless network infrastructure that is capable of streaming high-quality video to students’ mobile devices—enabling true anytime, anywhere learning to occur with the help of visual media.... ...Teacher Surveys Aimed at Swaying Policymakers
Amid more polls on teachers' views, the Obama administration wants districts and states to do their own on schools' working conditions. ...East Bay school districts are on state's "watch list" for insolvency
Six districts flagged for upside down budgets in January have made drastic cuts to file 'positive' reports in March, while two others have slipped. ...Teaching disabled kids to stay in the game
The basketball players settle into drills with the precision and fluidity of a vintage squad - despite the fact that many of them cannot move their bodies from the waist down. ...Inlet bridge a lesson in physics
High school physics teacher Lynn Price taught her students about force and tension and gravity and the theories came to life Wednesday when the physics classes from St. Thomas More Academy near Dover took an in-depth tour of the Indian River Inlet Bridge construction project. ...Principal making quick exit at struggling Lee High
The newly appointed principal of Lee High School, one of Houston ISD's most academically troubled campuses, is resigning to work for KIPP charter schools...
Consultant: Guess sparked TAKS probe
Martha Hammett says a practice essay question she created — a topic that ended up being on the actual TAKS — is to blame for an investigation into possible cheating at an HISD elementary. ...
Jay Mathews: Are you part of a great teacher's student family?
We know great teachers can be dynamos in the classroom. They turn lessons into conversations. They know each student’s strengths and weaknesses....
Mississippi A.C.L.U. Rejects $20,000 for Alternate Prom
The gift came from the American Humanist Association, an advocacy group whose mission is to promote “good without God.” ...Palo Alto High prize-winner hooked on the 'elegance' of mathematics
Ye's passion for the "elegance" of mathematics -- discovered in childhood and nurtured by her grandmother, her parents and various Palo Alto teachers -- has earned her top rankings this year in two of the nation's most rigorous academic competitions...
What the Race to Top Judges' Scores Tell Us
Behind the overall scores for the Race to the Top applicants is a complicated 500-point grading scale that weighs each state's plan according to more than a dozen different categories. The peer reviewers' scores and comments shed more light on the method behind the Race to the Top scoring madness....S.D. district won’t cut back on ‘minimum days’
San Diego schools will not cut back on “minimum days” to make up for the lost instruction time that will come with five furlough days during each of the next two years. ...