New York City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

New York City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Finds - NYTimes.com:

City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says

By WINNIE HU

Published: January 25, 2012

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New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with about 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools, according to new findings from a continuing study released on Wednesday night.

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The findings are part of a study that tracked the academic performance of more than 21,000 students who applied for ninth grade admission at 105 small high schools, mainly in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, from 2005 to 2008. The study appeared to validate the Bloomberg administration’

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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This Week’s Round-Up Of Good School Reform Posts & Articles

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Nice Review Of My Book

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Northern Lights Videos

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The Best Commentaries On The President’s Proposal For Students To Stay In School Until They’re Eighteen

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Today’s Dilbert Has So Many Applications To Education….

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Solar Storm & The Northern Lights

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How My U.S. History Students Evaluated Me This Semester

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My Article, “Icarus & School Reform” Is Available Free Through Tomorrow

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I wrote an article titled “Icarus and School Reform” for The TCRecord, and it’s available free through tomorrow. Then it goes behind a paywall. It might be worth a look…

Visualizations Of President Obama’s 2012 State Of The Union Address

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Three Education-Related Guests At State Of Union Address Tonight

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“ScholarPro”

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Music Shake

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The Best Critiques Of Ruby Payne

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Even More Chinese New Year Resources

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Handwriting Resources

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“State Of The Union” Resources

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Holocaust Resources

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Learning from Successful Schools Doesn’t Always Fly (Jack Schneider) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Learning from Successful Schools Doesn’t Always Fly (Jack Schneider) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Learning from Successful Schools Doesn’t Always Fly (Jack Schneider)

by larrycuban

Jack Schneider is the author of Excellence For All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America’s Public Schools. After completing a fellowship at Carleton College, he will be joining the faculty at Holy Cross.

It is an accepted truism that successful schools offer lessons about “what works” and that those lessons can, in turn, be taken to scale. It’s a nice, simple idea, and particularly attractive for those put off by the tentative nature

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's hired army of protesters under investigation

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's hired army of protesters under investigation:

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Pharaoh's army got drownded
O Mary don't you weep

The Sun-Times reports:

The Chicago Public Schools inspector general said Wednesday he is investigating reports that

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Schools Matter: Peas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for Education Reform

Schools Matter: Peas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for Education Reform:

Peas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for Education Reform

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Last Stand for Children First: Celebrate School Choice Week:

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