The college-readiness rate rose slightly but is still below 30 percent, according to city data. (Daily News)
The city shortlisted 23 high schools for possible closure based on the grades. (GothamSchools, WSJ)
At the top school, It Takes A Village Academy, 11.3 percent of students graduate college-ready. (Post)
DeWitt Clinton HS, one of few remaining large high schools in the Bronx, got its second straight F. (Post)
The principal of another school with two F’s, Boys and Girls HS, says he’s not at fault. (GothamSchools)
EBC HS for Public Service posted one of the biggest gains, and students credit the new principal. (Post)
City officials said they might make it harder for schools to earn top grades next year. (GothamSchools)
Eric Nadelstern: Next, the city should rate schools by graduates’ performance in college. (Daily News)
P.S./M.S. 114 in Belle Harbor is one of two schools shut since Sandy to reopen today. (Times, NY1)
The Archdiocese of New York said 27 Catholic schools could close for financial reasons. (Daily News)
A former Memphis school official was indicted for running a teacher-certification cheating ring. (Times)
St. Louis’s schools regained provisional accreditation after making slow but steady gains for years. (WSJ)
A former N.J. schools official says Newark’s new contract is exciting — and high-stakes. (Daily News)
Former Turnaround Teacher
The post article on Clinton is disgustingly bias. Not one Pro-Clinton quote in the entire article? The school has 4000 students, and a vast array of AP and Honors classes, so I am sure there is a large number of students who are very happy with their education. Or perhaps they could have spoken to one teacher, or parent? Or perhaps one of the dozens of distinguished alumni? It is not hard to find half a dozen students who want to bad mouth their school, in fact you could find that in any High School in the world. I guess the post wants to aid the DOE in their slander in order to destroy, along with Lehman, the last of the comprehensive High Schools in the Bronx. Fitting that the two who were once the crown jewels of the Boro are the last to go.
Think about this: If these two schools go down, from now on no student in the entire Boro can ever say, “I want to go to my neighborhood school to be close to home.” “I want to be able to pick up my younger sibling from school.” Or ”I want to go to a High School where a bunch of my friends from Middle/Elementary school will be.” Instead a crazy algorithim will match them with one of over a hundred small schools, that could leave them traveling over an hour each way. Way to destory any semblence of “community” in one of the poorest areas in the country.
Guest
Eric Nadelstern at it again with his moronic comments. He must really think they’re going to make him Chancellor. Eric, they showed how much respect they had for what you did to thousands of students and professionals with your insane ideas. It’s over for you and hopefully will soon be over for others like you such as Sternberg, the butcher of Jamaica High school now getting ready to destroy so many other schools and lives.
But as long as some newspapers keep giving you space, we’ll continue to be bombarded with your nonsense.
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GS: I could never understand why progress reports are linked without any kind of explanation after the letter factor.Do “common folks” understand the formula? How accurate are these figures? Why not a full explanation?
Lenadrago
It is not possible to reasonably rate schools based on how well their graduates perform in college. Besides the immense undertaking it would be to link every grade given in college to thousands of respective high schools, and the privacy issues raised by making every college kids grades public information, how would you even begin to weight grades based on each University’s difficulty level? Is an A average at a community school “better” than a B average at Harvard?
Also, by the time students get to college they are adults and often drop out or do poorly for adult reasons like wanting to start a family, realizing school isn’t for them, wanting to start their own business etc. How would you differentiate between poor grades acquired due to inadequate
Lenadrago
…preparation and those acquired because of the thousands of other factors that play into what someone does with their college years?
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