Rise & Shine: Experiment into cash-for-kids deemed a failure | GothamSchools
Rise & Shine: Experiment into cash-for-kids deemed a failure | GothamSchools
- The city’s cash-for-grades initiative ended because it didn’t cause kids to work harder. (Post, Daily News)
- The city will offer students online training next year about how to behave properly online. (Times)
- The state is threatening to cut thousands of scholarships funded by lottery revenue. (Daily News)
- The Daily News: UFT head Michael Mulgrew should lead teachers to the “new and unavoidable future.”
- The Harlem arts program on the chopping block has been in trouble for a while. (Times, Daily News)
- Mayor Bloomberg has offered cupcakes to the Post’s editorial board, and for sale in city buildings. (Post)
- Middle school students are decorating their cafeteria tables in an environmental art contest. (NY1)
- The research doesn’t say merit pay boosts performance, but states are pushing it anyway. (AP)
- The Education Equality Project co-chairs write that good teachers matter to poor kids. (Washington Post)
- A system being tested in Chicago’s schools uses a checklist to identify good and bad teaching. (Times)
- New Jersey’s schools added 36,000 students and 28,000 staff since 2001, a columnist writes. (Post)
