Remainders: State says tests are harder, teachers have doubts
- On average, student retention at NYC charter schools is lower than at district schools.
- Alan Chartock, a union member and father of SUNY’s Jonas Chartock, weighs in on the charter debate.
- Analyzing his students’ exam reading passages, Ruben Brosbe finds many are below grade level.
- State education officials said the tests would be harder this year, but Miss Eyre doesn’t buy it.
- Thousands of New Jersey high school students staged a walk out to protest school budget cuts.
- Only half of the city’s public high schools have student newspapers, in the Bronx it’s 32 percent.
- Aaron Pallas: charters don’t necessarily improve minority students’ acceptance rates to top high schools.
- About 30 students zoned for P.S. 234 may end up being bused to schools with open seats in Chinatown.
- Ed Money Watch says more federal funding should go to states that have spent their stabilization funds.
- Diane Ravitch: No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are worse for students than bad teachers are.
- Summer’s coming fast and InsideSchools has tips on how to get your child a summer job.
- You can’t change your school’s administration, but you can change how you deal with it, writes a teacher.
- Chicago’s school chief is putting more pressure on principals to raise their students’ test scores.
- And a judge finds that Cincinnati’s school board violated open meetings law