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School Committee OK’s student feedback on teachers
A measure that calls for students to provide “constructive feedback’’ to their teachers was approved by the Boston School Committee last night, after students had spent two years working for its passage.
Mystic Valley Charter School in Malden taps savings to buy vacant car lot for $4.4m
MALDEN — Chevy vans and trucks dotted the 4-acre car sales lot on Eastern Avenue for decades. But turf playing fields and a gymnasium are in its future as Mystic Valley Regional Charter School’s campus spreads to a new corner of Malden. ...Cheating probe results delayed
State officials granted a request Wednesday to extend by an extra month an investigation of 58 Atlanta schools for possible cheating on state tests A report was originally due to the state May 14....The school recession
One of the precious few points of consensus in our polarized land is that we need to do a better job educating our kids. But consensus, apparently, gets you only so far. In red states and blue, in urban, suburban and rural districts ...
Jay Mathews: What happens to my high schools list if Newsweek is sold?
I can assure you that as long as I am alive and capable of carrying on the delightful work of keeping in touch with educators at our most challenging high schools every year, the Top High Schools list will be published. ...D.C. students show gains in science and biology
D.C. school officials said Tuesday that they were encouraged by the growth students showed on the science and biology segments of last year's DC-CAS standardized tests. ...Saving the Teachers
Congress must act again to prevent a wave of teacher layoffs that could damage the fragile recovery and hobble the school reform effort for years to come....On Formspring, an E-Vite to Teenage Insults
A relatively new social networking site has become a magnet for comments, many of them nasty and sexual. ...
New Orleans charter schools will outnumber traditional schools 2 to 1 next year
Charter schools will outnumber traditional schools two to one in the Recovery School District next school year, in an effort to rapidly shrink the roster of schools under the state-run district's direct control....Pa. Senate panel OKs charter-oversight bill
The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee responded Tuesday to disclosures of alleged financial mismanagement at Philadelphia charter schools by unanimously approving a sweeping bill that would increase oversight of the state's 135 charters. ...Principals feeling pressure to get A's
Across the city, principals are under investigation for pressuring parents, students or teachers into giving them good reviews on the secret surveys that gauge school satisfaction...
Blacks only school outing
A school trip for African-Americans pupils only at an Ann Arbor elementary school last week was meant to inspire them to greater achievement, but instead ignited protest from other children and their parents. ...