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Ravenswood to close Stanford charter school Trustees cite poor academics, but other factors come into play
In a stunning rebuke to Stanford University, the Ravenswood City School District Board of Trustees Thursday voted to shut down a Stanford-run charter elementary school at the end of the school year, citing poor academic performance.
Music lessons build brainpower
School districts cutting arts programs should first consider that playing an instrument activates neuro-pathways to facilitate learning. ...UK recognizes teachers who made a difference
Nadine Siler started her career in a one-room school in Whitley County during World War II and spent the next three decades teaching second graders. ...Study says number of Idaho dropouts is double what the state is reporting
The study by the United Way of Treasure Valley is designed to give the community a baseline for discussing improvements in high school graduation and college-enrollment rates over time, said Derick O'Neill, United Way president and CEO. Already it's highlighted areas that need work. ...The new fight club: Teens bashing teens
They are all over the Internet, short video clips with titles out of a boxing poster. "Raul vs. Pedro." "Red vs. Robert." "Twinkie vs. Saylor." ...Rochester school modernization plan doesn't include oldest buildings
In the most recent draft of a billion-dollar facilities modernization plan for the Rochester School District, many of the city's oldest and most dilapidated schools have been removed from the project's first phase in favor of younger buildings that require less work. ...CMS gives $2.7M in bonuses as its work force shrinks
Almost 900 teachers, principals and other school staff collected more than $2.7 million in bonuses during the past year, even as top administrators forfeited theirs....Foreigners fill ranks of local charter- school chain
Tucson's Sonoran Science Academy and its sister schools import an unusually large proportion of their staff from foreign countries, especially Turkey, in a practice that parallels the custo…...Teachers to appeal mass firings
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The entire staff of teachers fired in a radical attempt to improve one of the worst performing high schools in Rhode Island will appeal their dismissals to school authorities, the head of the teachers union said ...School for Hope
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - Southern Sudan is one of the most impoverished places on earth, and this remote town lacks electricity and running water and is 150 miles from the nearest paved road. Yet, thanks to a remarkable young American who grew up here...
Judge questions legitimacy of teacher layoffs
A D.C. Superior Court judge raised questions Friday about Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's justification for laying off 266 teachers in October and refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Washington Teachers' Union that is challenging the job cuts. ...
Selective schools top survey; some other campuses beat odds
A few state-approved charter schools stood out among the best. KIPP, YES Prep and Harmony Science Academy ranked among Houston's top 10 high schools....
Race for Reform
4.25.10 - Grier already has begun to change the interview process for hiring all staff members, using a model based on the research of Martin Haberman. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor emeritus has spent three decades studying the qualities of educators who best serve disadvantaged students...
'Show Me the Money' -- for Special Education!
4.25.10 - GREG GROOGAN - A sizable chunk was set aside for Houston schools, within that chunk a $43 million one-time, windfall specifically for special education. That equates to almost $2,600 for each of the district's roughly 16,000 challenged students. ...