White and Asian students dominate at many of the city’s most selective city middle schools. (Daily News)
Located close to City Hall, Murry Bergtraum HS is in decline, and some say the city wants it to fail. (Post)
The Bronx High School of Medical Science isn’t letting many juniors take math or English. (DNAInfo)
Administrators at Harlem’s P.S. 92 were fined for keeping unruly students out of class for months. (Post)
In several districts with many middle-class families, rezoning plans are fomenting tension. (Times)
The city is investigating Bryan Davis, a District 6 parent council member, for pushing one plan. (DNAInfo)
The number of school-based gardens in the city has jumped from 40 to 232 in the last two years. (Times)
Students from a damaged Rockaway school got prime Thanksgiving Day parade seats. (Daily News)
The city is letting Sandy-affected students stay on track by taking online courses. (GothamSchools, NY1)
A student at a Queens high school relocated after Sandy is documenting his disrupted life. (SchoolBook)
Some Rockaways families say they worry that poor air quality could hurt students. (GothamSchools)
The Daily News says all of the mayoral contenders at last week’s education forum “spouted platitudes.”
The Daily News says the city’s latest strategies to identify giftedness in young children make no sense.
Efforts to increase diversity at elite Chicago high schools have made it harder to get into some. (Tribune)
The author of a book about an Austin, Texas, school says ranking schools hurts many of them. (Times)
School admission and grades can require steep bribes in China, where corruption is rampant. (Times)
State laws capping property tax increases mean some oil-boom towns can’t boost school funding. (WSJ)
In England, some schools are losing funding to pay for charter school-like “academies.” (Independent)
Former Turnaround Teacher
I wonder what schools will be killed off with Scarlet Letter “F” and “D” progress report grades…
Nycdoenuts
That same Queens student was also featured on an NPR piece on Thanksgiving Day (5th story in). http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&prgDate=11-22-2012
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