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Commentary: A crucial lesson in education reform | Asbury Park Press

Commentary: A crucial lesson in education reform | Asbury Park Press

A crucial lesson in education reform

Money alone doesn't help improve student achievement

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Schools around the country have begun to show measurable progress in closing achievement gaps, according to evidence from a growing range of sources. That's the good news.

The bad news is that in New Jersey this progress is much more limited, and it is young African-Americans who seem to be losing out the most.

Despite an influx of new funding to New Jersey's poorest urban school districts following the state Supreme Court's Abbott rulings, student achievement levels remain mostly flat at the lower end of the spectrum.

The percentage of black eighth-graders who scored above "basic" in reading actually declined, from 62

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education.change.org - Mona Davids, president of the New York Charter Parents Association, loves charter schools. She does not, however, love Ross Global Academy, a New York city charter school with a horrible record of ...

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dailykos.com - Sat Dec 25, 2010 at 09:47:01 PM PSTThe United States spends nearly as much on military power as every other country in the world combined, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research In...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Dec 26 2010 Larry Ferlazzo The first part of this post is my usual introduction to this series. If you’re familiar with it already, just skip down to the listing of new sites… Here’s the latest ins...

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parents4democraticschools.wordpress.com - Associated Press 4:55 p.m. CST, December 25, 2010INDIANAPOLIS — Several of Indiana’s public colleges and universities are criticizing the state’s new incentive-based funding formula for higher educ...

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nbclosangeles.com - A newborn Christmas package nicknamed Noel was dropped off at a Los Angeles fire station on Christmas Eve. Firefighters at Station 46, in a hard-luck section of the city just south of Exposition Pa...

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Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locally

Catalyst Notebook :: In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locally
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Catalyst writers and editors share their perspectives, analyses and the news behind the news on improving Chicago area public schools. Our on-the-ground reports will tell you what’s happening in schools and education circles here and elsewhere. Our views will tell you what to make of it.

In the News: School-based health centers on rise nationally, locallyThe Tribune reports that the number of school-based health centers is rising nationwide, with nine opening in Illinois during the 2009-10 academic year. Illinois has about 60 centers, half of which are in Chicago, according to the Illinois Coalition for School Health Centers, an advocacy group that is part the Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition. Located primarily in low-income areas with significant uninsured populations, school-based health centers provide relief for the nation's health care systems, help to reduce student absenteeism and improve health literacy in families, advocates say.

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In the News: Renaissance Schools Funds looks to raise $40 millionThe Renaissance Schools Fund hopes to raise at least $40 million for the next crop of new schools over the next five years, fund President Phyllis Lockett told the Sun-Times. The fund will focus on “expanding high quality charter school models” as well as finding “great emerging models,” Lockett said. The fund helped bankroll 68 of Renaissance 2010’s 103 schools.

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Schools south of Boston implementing social networking policies - The Boston Globe

Schools south of Boston implementing social networking policies - The Boston Globe

Schools examine Facebook policies

Schools aim to clarify social rules

By Johanna Seltz
Globe Correspondent / December 26, 2010

Teachers in Weymouth, Foxborough, and Norton can’t be “friends’’ with students on Facebook or other social networking sites, and a number of other school districts south of Boston are considering a similar ban.

“I don’t want my kids to know what their teachers do after school or on the weekends,’’ said Sean Guilfoyle, chairman of the Weymouth School Committee. “This not only protects the students, but it also protects the staff. It allows them to have a personal life and not worry about what’s being posted when they’re talking to their families or friends.’’

Cohasset, Hingham, Milton, and Randolph are among the communities working on Facebook policies for school staff, inspired in part by “model’’ rules on the

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