The city is investigating outsized Regents pass rate gains at Metropolitan Diploma Plus HS. (Daily News)
Students at Lower Manhattan’s Marta Valle High School say discipline issues are out of control. (Post)
With pre-kindergarten slots scarce, some middle-class families are setting up pre-K coops. (Times)
New York did not win Race to the Top funds for early childhood education. (GothamSchools, Post, WSJ)
Students and parents at Legacy High School say their school shouldn’t be closed. (GothamSchools)
Michael Winerip: New York State’s 10-year path to the current accountability moment is tortuous. (Times)
More students went to summer school this year and more were promoted. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
The basketball coach at Campus Magnet HS is the first in the city to win 700 games. (Times, Daily News)
A Bensonhurst middle school set a city record last year by suspending 32 students for sexting. (Post)
A 9-year-old boy died after choking on his lunch at P.S. 47 earlier this month. (Post, NY1, Daily News)
At Astoria’s P.S 234, a damaged gym means P.E. class includes movie-watching. (Daily News)
The Staten Island Advance questions what can be gained by replacing one zoned school with another.
The founder of Turnaround for Children explains how her group helps struggling schools. (Daily News)
A BMCC student describes how the city’s stop-and-frisk policies have constrained his behavior. (Times)
The health department is investigating reports of possible food poisoning at Canarsie’s P.S. 112. (NY1)
A look at P.S. 215 and Peninsula Prep, two Rockaway schools that the city could close. (Daily News)
“Babby,” the admissions director at the private Dalton School is seen as a gatekeeper to success. (Times)
Across the country, school districts are making rules about teacher-student online interaction. (Times)
Los Angeles’s new teachers contract rolls back an innovative policy that let outsiders run schools. (AP)
Florida officials are set to okay new standards that would make state tests harder to pass. (Sun-Sentinel)
A description of a protest-filled Chicago school board meeting and how the chair handled things. (Times)
Nobilep
Re Mike Winerip’s enlightening smackdown of the city’s and state’s corruption of testing standards and the consequent fakery of graduation stats in today’s Times. Regrettably, the story did not go all the way. I refer to Regents scrubbing, the term of art for tampering, which is against the law. Education officials on the Board of Regents and in the State Education Department and the New York City Department of Education have known for years and years that principals and teachers have routinely inflated Regents scores. Yet these upstanding educators, with the cooperation of the UFT, covered up the Regents crime spree until the Feb. 2 Wall Street Journal exposed their professional betrayal. Confronted by the paper, ex-Chancellor Klein took the Fifth and refused comment. Let us pray that Winerip writes a sequel about cheating at the top.
Guest
Re: Diploma Plus High School
What an unfortunate name for a high school. It implies that the reason students are in school is to get a diploma. With a narrow focus on graduation rather than education, it is not surprising to hear allegations of test tampering.
Los Flerpos
I just read the first several paragraphs of the Times profile of “Babby.” Puked a few times, gave up.
Tim
That didn’t make me puke. Last year, when Bill Keller said that “Babby” was the most powerful person in New York City? *That* made me puke. And then feel really embarrassed for Bill Keller.
And I continue to be amused by the elite privates’ definition of “diversity,” because the percentage of kids who get any financial aid at all seems to be permanently stuck at 20%. I’m not sure “diversity” should enter the conversation when four out of every five kids at these schools have parents who can pay tuition that pretty soon will surpass the annual median household income in New York City.
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