A mostly positive verdict on deal clearing way for Cathie Black to lead city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren
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I caved. After dodging some calamitous trends and memes in the social media world, I let people “inbox” me their questions, hoping no one would ask me anything too off-kilter. In previous exercises, people have done everything from asking me to predict their futures to openly wondering why I didn’t want to meet up with them. I squirmed internally and gave the most appropriate response possible (and haven’t tried to meet them since).I
NEW YORK—It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.
On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard expressing joy, frustration and outrage.
Perhaps most notoriously in pop culture, it punctuated the film dialogue of "Scarface" in 1983.
Now a public high school teacher is suing the city after he was suspended and fined $15,000 for what school officials say was misconduct for using it in his Manhattan classroom.
The word, "cono," (COHN'-yoh) can be offensive. But that sometimes depends
In Newsweek this week, Bill Gates once again joins other “school reformers” in their arrogant attitude that if you don’t agree with them, then you’re for the “status quo” and you’re “sticking up for decline.”
Actually, he was directing that accusation against Diane Ravitch, the well-respected education historian, researcher and author.
Come on, Bill and (many of his allies). I really do think you want to do what you think is best for kids, though I believe you have little useful experience, are ill-informed, and have an inaccurate analysis of the both the problems and solutions to the challenges facing public education. But, you know, it sounds like you do have some decent ideas, too.
Do you and your allies have to s
MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP -- The township school district says that eliminating the "D'' grade for students has been a success.
The new policy in Mount Olive, which took effect in September, raised the failure score to anything under a 70.
Larrie Reynolds, superintendent of the school district in Morris County, said the number of failing grades for district middle and high school students dropped 42.5 percent in the first quarter. And more students earned A's and B's.
Reynolds had proposed the policy last summer, saying he was tired of kids getting credit for not learning.
But some school officials and teachers say it's too early to declare the policy a success, since its
Watch TV news coverage of last Monday’s DFT picket against House Bills 6576 – 79, athttp://www.youtube.com/dftmembers. The legislation was introduced November 17 by State Rep Durhal and Robert Bobb. It would eliminate class size caps and seniority, but only in those school districts in a financial deficit. The DFT voted to sponsor the picket at its November membership meeting. We need to elect a union leadership that will build these actions, not oppose them (as Keith Johnson did), or ignore them (as other slates
In her “‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback” for The New York Times (17 October 2010), Patricia Cohen declared: “Now, after decades of silence, these scholars are speaking openly about you-know-what [the 'culture of poverty'], conceding that culture and persistent poverty are enmeshed.”
While Cohen’s article accurately reflects a scholarly re-examination of claims that a culture of poverty exists (and renewed support for the 1965 Moynihan report), assuming that the U.S. public’s faith in a “culture of poverty” is somehow making a comeback masks that it never left.
Nowhere is popular faith in a culture of poverty more evident than powerful and disturbing trends in education that began mid-decade under President Bush, and have received unprecedented support under President Obama—deficit approaches to poverty as embodied in the work of Ruby Payne and the rise of “no excuses” charter schools such as Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ).
Since 2005, Ruby Payne’s workbook- and workshop-focused “framework” has spread throughout U.S. public schools scrambling to address the achievement gap as mandated by No Child Left Behind. A rising voice among
