Then, we reported on
how city school students were still using Tandy 1000s with floppy disks.
In this Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports on
how city school students participated in the event.
Not exact matches
School officials, especially in big
cities, were concerned about
how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy
students.
But you have to use the tools to know
how they work, and at the Waldorf
School of Garden
City that is our methodology — creative teachers and
students who learn by doing.
SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: As many wonder just what would happen should the executive order that protects children who were brought to this country illegally be eliminated, the head of Syracuse
City Schools says all
students — no matter
how they got here — will be supported.
The sex - ed bill creates a task force to scrutinize
how city schools teach sex - ed and adds a requirement for panelists to consider issues specific to
students who are «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and gender nonconforming.»
NEW YORK, NY — New York
City students will go through random security screenings and a refresher on
how to handle violent threats after last week's massacre at a Florida high
school, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.
Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10
students who walk across a stage and receive a New York
City high
school diploma need remediation in college,
how can we say that this public
school system is doing its job?»
New York, NY — As the
school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade:
How New York
City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills —
schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the
students are not prepared for college or a career after high
school.
«Is that
how our educators in the Syracuse
City School District are teaching our
students?»
One group of Rochester
City School District
students will be returning to class with a deeper understanding of
how the media works.
Director Faraci explained that the lessons at the New
City School of Music start out teaching
students how to read the music.
The mayor repeatedly declined to say
how much the
city currently spends per year on tuition for
students who are approved for reimbursement for private
school education, but according to the
city's Independent Budget Office, the
city is estimated to have paid out more than $ 200 million in reimbursements this year.
High
school students will have access to a college mentor, help on their applications, or guidance on
how to pay for college, which will cost the
city $ 15 million each year by 2019.
In a recent op - ed published by the New York Daily News, the father of two Brooklyn public
school students gives a first - hand account of just
how important it is that the teachers» union and
City officials come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation deal.
«The information given out about the test questions does not provide a complete picture, making it hard to judge
how much progress
students made last year,» said Fred Smith, a former testing analyst for
city schools.
In this week's Press Pass conversation, WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley and Buffalo Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss
how numbers of African American
students attended
City Honors and Olmsted
schools actually declined slightly.
WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss
how numbers of African American
students attending
City Honors and Olmsted
schools actually dropped slightly.
St. Peter's
School students in Kansas
City, Missouri, want to determine
how microgravity affects oxidation, which could rust the interior and exterior of spacecraft.
The Quest to Learn public
school in New York
City offers a glimpse of
how gaming is already transforming not just
how students learn, but also what they learn.
I found myself in an inner -
city middle
school classroom without a clue as to
how to discipline
students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.
At the Cooper - Hewitt workshop, Moss heard Alberto Romero, a past participant of A
City of Neighborhoods, talk about
how his
students at Philadelphia Constitution High
School created rubrics to evaluate neighborhood murals.
Then there is the question of
how much of the
students» gains in private
schools are attributable to the fact that private
schools had smaller class sizes in all three
cities.
Well, now, Jonathan Skolnick — who has tackled personalized - learning strategy at
School of One, Caliber
Schools, and the New York
City Department of Education, and is now a VP at the Educational Alliance — has written with a missive that raises one of the thorniest questions about personalized learning:
How do we ensure that
students in self - directed, customized environments still master skills and content that we think critical — but that they may deem tedious, pointless, and unnecessary?
Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking
students from first grade on («
How New York
City's Charter
Schools Affect Achievement»).
I stopped by to see the folks putting together the
School of One at a New York City middle school last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student's learning level actually work in pra
School of One at a New York
City middle
school last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student's learning level actually work in pra
school last week to see
how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each
student's learning level actually work in practice.
Warm results arrived this past winter in New York
City from Stanford University economist Caroline Hoxby, who detailed
how students winning slots via lotteries in over-subscribed charters out - performed applicants who remained in regular public
schools.
How do we create a series of
schools across the
city that ensures that as many
students as possible have a great education?
We have changed
how we approach public education and watched unprecedented
student achievement gains flow from those changes,» said Neil E. Duke, chair of the Baltimore
City Board of
School Commissioners.
Many of these new
schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems:
how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority
students in our nation's inner
cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.
In 2015, Ed
School students learned just how influential educators can be to their students when Kelsey Mayabb, a high school cheer squad coach in Kansas City, Missouri, spoke in the Askwith Forum about supporting Landon Patterson, a transgender student on her squad who had to wear the boy's uniform for years before and after she officially transist
School students learned just
how influential educators can be to their
students when Kelsey Mayabb, a high
school cheer squad coach in Kansas City, Missouri, spoke in the Askwith Forum about supporting Landon Patterson, a transgender student on her squad who had to wear the boy's uniform for years before and after she officially transist
school cheer squad coach in Kansas
City, Missouri, spoke in the Askwith Forum about supporting Landon Patterson, a transgender
student on her squad who had to wear the boy's uniform for years before and after she officially transistioned.
This New York
City middle and high
school ensures that
students learn
how to think critically and are assessed in an authentic way.
Though vague on
how the
city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of
schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need»
students, their likelihood of failure had increased.
That's
how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged
City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800
students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.
This is one reason the New York
City public
schools are an ideal setting to explore
how a new teacher's certification status might affect
how much
students learn.
The task was to divvy up these sources, integrate the information, and decide whether, and
how, the Archaeotype program could be used at the inner -
city school at which they were
student teaching.
School boards in
city after
city have embraced the management philosophy that educators at the front lines are best qualified to decide
how to teach their
students, and that allowing them to make those decisions will enhance their involvement and commitment.
When the
student - government president here at
City Springs Elementary / Middle
School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his
School turned into the class clown last
school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his
school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for
how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his heels.
Since starting my career teaching in inner -
city elementary
schools in London, I have always been struck by
how many
students report that history is their favorite subject.
Curriculum, Caring, and Crack Vials: A
City Principal's Perspective Crossroads School principal Ann Weiner, who has collected crack vials and fought with city government, offers her views about how structure, staff, and knowledge about every child can help disadvantaged students overcome challen
City Principal's Perspective Crossroads
School principal Ann Weiner, who has collected crack vials and fought with
city government, offers her views about how structure, staff, and knowledge about every child can help disadvantaged students overcome challen
city government, offers her views about
how structure, staff, and knowledge about every child can help disadvantaged
students overcome challenges.
Researchers from the Urban Institute have released a study looking at
how long it takes
students to travel from home to
school in five different
cities where families have a significant amount of educational choice.
In this webinar, you'll hear
how St. Albans
City School is empowering
students by putting Google tools into their hands to improve their community.
«Stuck in
School:
How Social Context Shapes
School Choice for Inner -
City Students.»
Pay Teachers More and Reach All
Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More
Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011
City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011
How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four
Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about
How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Design a
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study:
How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study:
How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for
student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports:
City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter
school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school study shows the steps to great
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
Read about
how the expanded
school day at Aspire Port
City allows teachers more time to analyze
student data to ensure that the additional time they have with
students is well - used.
We asked them also to survey private
schools in communities served by four of the country's most prominent voucher programs (
city - specific programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, statewide programs in Ohio and Indiana) to ascertain
how both participating and non-participating
schools view those programs and their regulations and
how heavily they weigh program requirements (and other constraints) when deciding whether to sign up for and accept the programs»
students.
And although the sectors identified «exploring
how charters can address the needs of the lowest - performing district
schools» as a focus of the
city's Gates compact work, they have not committed to enrolling proportional shares of special education
students, like their counterparts in Denver.
Transforming the High
School Experience:
How New York
City's New Small
Schools Are Boosting
Student Achievement and Graduation Rates.
Responding to recent violent incidents and concerns about
student - discipline problems raised by a high -
school headmaster and others in the Boston Public
Schools, Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston late last week called a meeting of top
city and
school officials to try to reach agreement on
how to address the problem.