The OSSE findings also confirmed
our reporting from the last school year at Ballou High School, citing violations, specifically, with 113 of 177 graduating students» records.
Not exact matches
In a paper presented
last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington
reported that he had elicited confidential family information
from more than 700 New Orleans high
school players
last year while their coaches kept detailed injury records.
In
last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all
schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a
Report with participation
from more than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.
Last year, city
schools stopped using words like «overweight» on the Fitnessgram
reports after The Post revealed that skinny - as - a-rail student Gwendolyn Williams
from Staten Island was given that designation.
The
report from the group — an annual snapshot based on a survey of
school districts around the state — found nearly half of the state's district have lost fund balance over the
last year.
Also at 11 a.m., a new
report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be released showing that community
schools need at least five
years or more to create
lasting school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manh
school improvement and reduce barriers to achievement in a measurable way, Annenberg Institute for
School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manh
School Reform, 233 Broadway, Suite 720, Manhattan.
The suspected gunman, former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, had been expelled
last year from the high
school, The Washington Post
reported.
New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a pro-charter
school independent expenditure committee that helped Senate Republicans
last year,
reported raising $ 2 million
from two donors this
year.
New York City collected a record $ 957 million in fines
last year, including payments
from a million speeding tickets handed out to drivers near
schools, according to a
report Thursday.
A Wisconsin law requiring public
reporting of test scores
from voucher
schools went into effect during the
last year of the study, 2010, giving researchers a rare look at private -
school test scores both before and after the accountability mandate.
Something that was picked up on Roo's reading
report from school last year was that she tended to select the same style of books.
For one, the
schools need the money; a
report last year from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute showed that the average charter
school receives 80 cents on the dollar compared to traditional public
schools.
Readers of Education Next may have seen a
report entitled Diploma to Nowhere
from Strong American
Schools last year that counted up the number of high
school graduates who end up in remedial courses at the next level.
That's the conclusion of Professional Learning in the Learning Profession, a research
report by Stanford University's Linda Darling - Hammond and a team of researchers
from Stanford's
School Redesign Network published by the National Staff Development Council in the United States in February
last year.
The main findings
from the Education Next — PEPG survey
reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of U.S. adults (age 18
years and older) and oversamples of Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks, public
school teachers, and residents of Florida (the
last group for supplemental analyses not
reported here).
In
last year's fall issue of Education Next Columbia Business
School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood
reported their findings
from a review of almost ten
years of data for Gotham
school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different
school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominously:
As
reported by
Schools Week, the number of late entries fell
from three per cent
last year to 2.8 per cent this
year across GCSE and AS / A-level entries, Ofqual's latest figures show.
Hard to choose but I think my favourite article
from last year was either he interview with Andreas Schleicher on the impact of technology on learning outcomes (Research Files 14) or the story on how Nossal High
School has shifted their
reporting practices away
from A-E grading and towards progress measures (Removing grades
from student
reports).
Charter
schools now enroll 2.9 million students, up 9 % from last year, according to a new report from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools described in the Washingto
schools now enroll 2.9 million students, up 9 %
from last year, according to a new
report from the National Alliance of Public Charter
Schools described in the Washingto
Schools described in the Washington Post.
Schools Week is
reporting that the number of referrals made by the education sector to the government's anti-radicalisation scheme, Channel, has dramatically increased
from 20 in 2012/13 to 424
last year.
With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading
report includes results
from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British
school children in the
last academic
year.
Schools have encouraged the use of Apps in the classroom for the
last few
years but many teachers have
reported problems such as content not being relevant, inappropriate adverts, in - app purchases preventing the Apps
from being used to their full potential and graphical issues when viewed on large - format screens.
The National Education Association
reported last week that the average percentage change in teachers» salaries
from the 2004 - 05 to the 2005 - 06
school year was 2.9 percent.
Schools Week reported in November last year that almost a third of schools in the East Midlands and Humber were now academies, up from a quarter i
Schools Week
reported in November
last year that almost a third of
schools in the East Midlands and Humber were now academies, up from a quarter i
schools in the East Midlands and Humber were now academies, up
from a quarter in 2014.
King, who spent
last year reporting from Donnan, says students ran the
school.
The D.C. Public Charter
School Board did not
report graduation rates for individual
schools, but it said that early numbers indicate an overall two - point increase
from last year, to 71 percent for all charter high
schools.
(Calif.)
School districts requested less than 300 waivers
last year from state education requirements, continuing a four -
year trend, according to a new
report from the California Department of Education.
Last month, the California Charter Schools Association reported that as of this fall, 484,000 students — about 8 percent of the state's K - 12 enrollment — attend 1,065 charters, up 109 schools from last y
Last month, the California Charter
Schools Association reported that as of this fall, 484,000 students — about 8 percent of the state's K - 12 enrollment — attend 1,065 charters, up 109 schools from las
Schools Association
reported that as of this fall, 484,000 students — about 8 percent of the state's K - 12 enrollment — attend 1,065 charters, up 109
schools from las
schools from last y
last year.
A city study — undertaken after media
reports revealed the situation — found that more than 900 of 2,758 students who graduated
from a D.C. public
school last year either failed to attend enough classes or improperly took makeup classes.
A
report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that fourth - grade scores for the nation's public
schools stagnated after the law took effect in 2002, rose modestly in 2007 and remained unchanged
last year.
Based on all the complaints
from Washington State politicians and conservative Beltway
school reformers such as Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
reported by Motoko Rich
last Sunday in New York Times, you would think that the Obama Administration's leveled a great injustice by not renewing the waiver given to it two
years ago to ignore the No Child Left Behind Act.
This
year, the Partnership is celebrating a decade of working with
schools, and an independent
report released
last month
from Public Impact shows it has achieved tremendous growth with some of the state's lowest - performing
schools.
Last year, we
reported that the number of «dropout factories» — those high
schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students — had declined
from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,746 in 2008.
Researchers
from the Centre for High Performance published a
report last year that claimed «architects», often a former economist, historian or music teacher, were the most effective headteachers in «failing»
schools.
NAHT's findings also follow a
report from the Education Policy Institute
last week, which showed that the proportion of maintained secondary
schools in deficit has trebled in the
last four
years —
from 8.8 per cent in 2013 - 14 to 26.1 per cent in 2016 - 17.
Nevertheless, the
reports providing information on
schools from the previous
year and a rite of winter for the
last 15
years moved deep into spring this
year.
The New York - based AUSSIE, which was recently acquired by an Australian company, Editure, took in more than $ 15 million of that amount
last year, making it the system's top provider of professional development, according to an analysis by The Hechinger
Report of a decade's worth of
school spending data obtained
from the city education department.
Leslie Brody at the Wall Street Journal
reported last week that about 38,000 students go to NYC's renewal
schools, «down
from 44,000 when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to save them two
years ago.»
In its updated
report for 2015 - 16, the NAHT collated responses
from 1,102 headteachers and
school business managers
from November and December
last year.
Fifty - one percent of the district's high
school juniors are considered college - ready in reading and math, down 3 and 4 percentage points, respectively,
from last year's juniors, according to the
report.
A «whole classroom» of 35 pupils are excluded
from school every day, the
report notes, with 6,685 told to leave
last year.
Nationally, the
report found that at least one in five students now attends a public charter
school in 43 communities across the country, up
from 32
last year, and that 12 urban communities now enroll at least 30 percent of their public
school students in charter
schools, a jump
from seven urban communities
last year.
The most recent federal
report on Arizona private
schools,
from the 2009 - 2010
school year, listed only 343 private
schools, fewer than the number that accepted scholarships
last year.
The
report shows 10,630
reported acts of
school crime and violence
last school year, a 4.8 percent decrease
from the 11,161 acts in 2011 - 12.
The Massachusetts Charter Public
School Association
reports that the total number of applications for 16 Boston charters has surged to 35,000
from 13,000
last year, facilitated by a new online process that allows easy application to multiple
schools at once.
Last month, a
report by the state Auditor's Office identified the missing funds, skimmed
from school accounts over a period of four
years by an unidentified former employee.
Together, the two companies received at least $ 6.9 million
from charter
schools last year, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of charter -
school expense
reports.
In a
report on
school safety released
last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter
schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data
from the Big Apple's
school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident
reports over a period of several
years.
Strikingly, this
report from the nation's premier civil rights organization singles out charter
schools and their students for criticism, and underscores the NAACP's call for a moratorium on charters
last year.
Last school year, the rural
school system had the fifth highest teacher vacancy rate in the state, shows a
report from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.