A Columbia professor and a Wu-Tang Clan member are the latest to use hip-hop in city schools. (Times)
Students throughout the region, not just in New York City, have had their lives upturned by Sandy. (WSJ)
Last week, four of six children in one Far Rockaway family were still out of school after the storm. (NY1)
PS 333 in Queens has been relocated twice, more than any other Sandy-damaged school. (SchoolBook)
Many students were suspended last year, but fewer than in 2010-2011. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
For the second straight year, dozens of the suspended students were just 4 and 5 years old. (Daily News)
Salary and benefits are holding up some districts’ teacher evaluation deals. (Democrat & Chronicle)
A Stuyvesant High School graduate is one of this year’s newest Rhodes Scholarship recipients. (Post)
A Bronx high school’s debate team won a national award and will visit the White House. (Daily News)
The recent suspension of Tottenville HS football players might be tied to a student’s suicide. (Daily News)
An investigation found that a substitute teacher chided students for interrupting his phone calls. (Post)
At Avenues, a for-profit private school that opened this year, technology is crucial to the curriculum. (WSJ)
The Daily News says the UFT should learn from Newark’s contract and accept bonuses for top teachers.
Guest
The UFT delegates voted that we would not have merit pay. Merit pay has been proven to NOT work. I wish people would get it through their heads and move on. People are doing so much damage to children and education.
BloombergMustGo
The Daily News should learn from toilet tissue and flush itself.
Former Turnaround Teacher
Apparently all members of the Newark Teachers Union were able to vote on the contract. Meaning custodians, paraprofessionals, social workers, etc (people who will not be affected by merit pay in any way). The vote for the contract was actually quite close, and I wonder what the outcome would have been had it just been the teachers who voted, or if all memebers of the union voted at all.
Just remember, when the facebook money runs out and they have to stop giving bonuses you will still be stuck with a junk punative contract. The same thing happened in DC.
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