Wednesday, June 2, 2010

New N.Y. Schools Face Extra Pain From Layoffs Education News - The New York Times

Education News - The New York Times

Denise Wadler, center, at Brooklyn Brownstone School, sent out nearly 50 résumés last week.
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Denise Wadler, center, at Brooklyn Brownstone School, sent out nearly 50 résumés last week.
Union contracts require layoffs to be by seniority, especially burdening the city’s new, small schools and their typically young, recently hired staffs.
At New York City schools for the gifted, like the Brooklyn School of Inquiry, 56 percent of kindergartners are girls.

Gender Gap for the Gifted in City Schools

Though the school system over all is 51 percent male, its gifted classrooms generally have more girls.

States Create Flood of Education Bills

Colorado’s law on tenure and evaluations was the most comprehensive of a spate of similar laws in other states.

A Private School’s Ads Imply Public School Slippage

At a time when New Jersey public schools are cutting back, Saddle River Day School is scrambling for students.
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Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt

Is it really worth $100,000 in debt to graduate from a top school? And is it responsible?
Nitya Rajendran at the survivors breakfast at Trinity School in Manhattan. The event is a tradition for seniors who started at Trinity as kindergartners.

On Graduation Day, Seniors Take Time to Feel Like Kindergartners Again

At an annual breakfast for graduating seniors, students at Manhattan’s Trinity School gathered to reminisce with their first teachers.