Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.













VALERIE STRAUSS
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

Posted at 10:35 PM ET, 04/19/2010

Did DOE get memo on school desegregation?

Century Foundation scholar Richard Kahlenberg asks why the U.S. Education Department is not forcefully addressing the profound challenge to equal opportunity today – the de facto economic and racial segregation of America’s suburban and city schools
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JAY MATHEWS
What's Right and Wrong With Our Schools

Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 04/18/2010

Principal tells ninth graders to study, or leave

I was surprised when Charlie Thomas, principal of Crossland High School in Prince George’s County, began sending me emails. His school has been one of the worst in a low-performing district for a long time. But Thomas, who arrived in 2004, was trying to improve his school and was willing even to deal with a fault-finding columnist if it would help. Nearly 66 percent of his students were low-income, but he was not going to let that slow him down. I confess he has gotten my attention with some unusual moves.
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Hard Monday at Shaw school after principal's killing





My colleague Michael Birnbaum reports:
Until last week, Shaw Middle School students were greeted every morning by their principal, Brian Betts, who would stand at the corner of 10th and V streets NW, his school at his back, hugging students as they arrived for class and catching up with their parents.
Monday was the first day back in class since Betts was discovered fatally shot in his Silver Spring home Thursday night. Hugs were still exchanged at the corner, but this time it was between crying teachers and students.
Now the school must figure out how to carry on.
An English teacher who got her first teaching job from Betts, Meredith Leonard, said she couldn't imagine the school without him.
"But being around the kids makes it easier," she said. "He would have wanted us to keep moving. It'll be okay."
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