Posts tagged "nightcap"
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:44 pm
- Philadelphia advocates are trying to drum up support for Cincinnati-ish “community schools.” (Notebook)
- The city’s revamp of vocational schools must balance twin focuses on college and careers. (SchoolBook)
- A national StudentsFirst official says he wants proof from critics of Bloomberg’s school policies. (HuffPo)
- Performance pay is back on legislators’ agenda, after a possibly research-related lull. (Teacher Beat)
- A mom says she’ll vote to pay more taxes for her kids’ schools, but she won’t give her time. (Broad Side)
- Less known than how students sort into schools is how they’re sorted once they’re there. (Shanker)
- Like many states and districts, Washington, D.C., is hoping the Common Core is a cure-all. (Hechinger)
- One D.C. middle school is also trying to overhaul its math instruction with computers. (Greater Greater)
- I talked about our election feature, The Next Education Mayor, on “Road to City Hall” on Thursday. (NY1)
by Geoff Decker,
at 6:31 pm
- Former school leaders from Queens argue that not all students need academic diplomas. (Indypendent)
- Middle and high school robotics students are helping to fuel the city’s startup culture. (Epoch Times)
- Merryl Tisch, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and big funders were at Success Academy’s gala. (Bloomberg)
- A projection of the drops that could be seen in proficiency rates on this year’s tests. (GS Community)
- As usual, U.S. leads the world in bachelor degrees, but the margin is shrinking. (Hechinger Report)
- A veteran teacher recalls that Bill Thompson has not always been a friend to the UFT. (NYC Educator)
- A longtime education activist, “both praised and vilified,” passed away this week. (Ed Notes Online)
- A cancer-ridden teacher was busted for dealing meth, sort of like TV’s Walter White. (Post)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:01 pm
- Chicago’s appointed school board approved 50 school closures, over loud protest. (Tribune, Sun-Times)
- A local argues that cutting communities out of the closure conversation will impede reform. (Atlantic)
- School science projects strike again, this time when one was mistaken for a bomb on a bus. (HuffPo)
- The latest issue of the “Public School Press,” a promotional paper about the city’s schools, is out. (DOE)
- When student dancing veers almost out of on control, a school official kicks up his own feet. (Upworthy)
- To provide low-cost schooling to children in developing countries, schools turn to large classes. (Fixes)
- Brooklyn charter schools offer kids unique opportunities to study Greek and Hebrew. (Brooklyn Ink)
- This “listicle” is meant to help readers figure out if they have been in the classroom too long. (Buzzfeed)
- A teacher calls the city’s threat to shutter the few remaining teacher cafeterias “callous.” (NYC Educator)
- Districts might or might not be losing interest in winning federal Race to the Top funds. (Politics K-12)
- Marcus Winters: In New York, people paradoxically like both school reform and teachers. (City Journal)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:56 pm
- The man who just made $250 million by selling Tumblr to Yahoo dropped out of Bronx Science. (Times)
- A city teacher proposes himself to replace the departed education aide to Gov. Cuomo. (Mr. D’s Nabe)
- Believe it or not, free computers don’t actually eliminate wealth gaps in achievement. (TechCrunch)
- More city high schools are opening with business partnerships already lined up. (Epoch Times)
- Voters in other school districts voted on their districts’ budgets today. Why not here? (NYCDOEnuts)
- Bill Thompson discussed his stint at the Board of Education on the Road to City Hall. (CapitalNY)
- Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, the education chair, says she’s glad Vito Lopez is gone. (Daily Politics)
- A middle-class Ohio father describes his family’s effort at school choice, which fell short. (Flypaper)
- Recent graduate Nikhil Goyal explains why he didn’t fuel his district’s teacher evaluations. (Nation)
- A 9-year-old who spoke at a Chicago school closure rally captured the crowd’s attention. (YouTube)
- Chicago’s protests are seen as reminiscent of the city’s 1963 boycott against segregation. (Reader)
- Mike Petrilli: All schools should get to propose their own accountability rules. (Bridging Differences)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 10:33 pm
- A teacher lists 10 reasons educators should write for the public. (We take submissions.) (Chicago Now)
- Pam Cantor, of Turnaround for Children, is one of the new Ashoka Fellows for entrepreneurship. (Forbes)
- Neverware, a city firm that aims to help schools maintain technology, has raised $1 million. (TechCrunch)
- Alaska, Hawaii, and West Virginia are the latest states to get No Child Left Behind waivers. (Politics K-12)
- A city charter school teacher is shortlisted for TNTP’s “superlative classroom practice” prize. (GS Twitter)
- The latest dispatch from inside a school that shares space is about lunch inequities. (Inside Colocation)
- It seems that Karen Lewis’s continued success in Chicago might be influencing the AFT. (Teacher Beat)
- Parsing KIPP’s annual report reveals data that raises concern and further questions. (Gary Rubinstein)
- Rick Hess has suggestions, based on his research, for districts facing leadership change. (Straight Up)
- An education professor says it would be better to have late teacher evaluations than bad ones. (Shanker)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:50 pm
- After Chicago’s teachers union concludes its election, it will start three days of protests. (Answer Sheet)
- A parent offers a dispatch from the frontiers of urban schools’ field trips by subway. (NYC Taught Me)
- Newark’s Cami Anderson: Reform efforts focus too much on principals, not their managers. (Rick Hess)
- Eight mayoral candidates said in surveys that they’d emphasize the arts more in schools. (Metropolis)
- On the future of Teach for America, which is in the middle of a long-awaited transition. (Education Next)
- Enrollment in American private schools is shrinking, for a variety of surprising reasons. (Atlantic)
- What to do if you received a dreaded “promotion in doubt” letter about your child. (Insideschools)
- Alternative routes to teaching are growing in popular, even without proof to support them. (Hechinger)
- Philadelphia’s efforts to offer quality summer programming have dwindled with its budget. (Notebook)
- “Rocket Boy” Homer Hickam is encouraging the Florida teen whose experiment exploded. (The Root)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:10 pm
- A primer on how the UFT endorsement will go down includes a note on secret voting. (Ed in the Apple)
- Two thirds of education “influentials” think a pause on Common Core stakes will happen. (Answer Sheet)
- It seems like maybe U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan isn’t opposed to a pause. (Politics K-12)
- Teacher Stephen Lazar, who critiqued N.Y.’s history standards, finds promise in national ones. (Shanker)
- Three prominent charter school operators are finalists for a new Broad Prize. (District Dossier)
- Examples from New York City fuel the question of whether school discipline has gone too far. (Salon)
- A teacher who wants to transform discipline lists old and new ways of handling misbehavior. (Mrs. Ripp)
- Fred Smith praises the protest at Teachers College against Regents chief Merryl Tisch. (SchoolBook)
- In addition to closing many schools, Philadelphia is replacing a quarter of principals this year. (Notebook)
- The city mailed out middle school admissions letters a few days earlier than planned. (Insideschools)
- Tennessee will pay teachers with top ratings to transfer to lower-performing schools. (Teacher Beat)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:19 pm
- A Staten Island Tech student recalls the interactions with science that made him a finalist. (SchoolBook)
- A father argues that city life isn’t good for boys, who need more activity than the city allows. (Motherlode)
- The U.S. DOE answers questions about the national consortia trying to make shared tests. (Flypaper)
- John Merrow: The media helped make Atlanta’s cheating scandal bigger than D.C.’s. (Taking Note)
- Nationally, dropout rates for students with learning disabilities are very high. (On Special Education)
- A Finnish education expert says Finnish teachers wouldn’t take what teachers here do. (Answer Sheet)
- Chicago parents describe their frustration and fears about the city’s school closings. (Hechinger 1, 2)
- “Teach Your Children” is an early nominee for a list of songs about schooling. (Twitter via Eduwonk)
- A look inside a classroom at Bronx Leadership Academy II that Blue Engine has transformed. (Fixes)
- The CEO of New Schools for New Orleans offers more details on his “relinquishment” theory. (Flypaper)
- An advocate of getting kids into programming reflects on volunteering in Brooklyn schools. (EdSurge)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:18 pm
- A New Jersey kindergartener used what he learned in school to save his father’s life. (Yahoo! Shine)
- NY1 reporter Lindsey Christ’s dispatches from Japanese schools keep getting more interesting. (Twitter)
- New York City is just one of 17 big-city school districts soon to get a new superintendent. (EdWeek)
- A new study finds that few children are “redshirted,” or kept out of kindergarten for a year. (EdSource)
- Denver is grappling with how to reduce the in- and out-of-school suspension rate. (EdNewsColorado)
- The principal of the city’s software programming-themed school says culture comes first. (SchoolBook)
- The city is reminding families about what not to wear for students as spring warms up. (Insideschools)
- A reminder: If everyone gets smarter across the board, the achievement gap won’t narrow at all. (Russo)
- Most NAEP social studies tests have been postponed indefinitely due to sequestration. (Politics K-12)
- Pearson could lose its gifted testing contract, but it has 18 others with the city. (NYC P.S. Parents)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:09 pm
- AFT head Randi Weingarten describes how she’d tweak a lesson for the Common Core. (State Impact)
- NY1 schools reporter Lindsey Christ is in Japan right now, where kids start the day with math. (Twitter)
- Mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis’s favorite Brooklyn spot is alma mater Brooklyn Tech. (Brooklyn Rail)
- The Michigan school district that ran out of money will have students only on a volunteer basis. (HuffPo)
- Our report on the UFT’s mayoral debate not enough for you? Watch the whole thing. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- Students discuss and analyze their teachers’ social media habits. (Learning Network via NYCDOEnuts)
- Is eliminating penalties for lateness lowering the standards? One teacher argues no. (Music and Beyond)
- Daniel Willingham: Kids today need to learn that patience can yield rewards. (Science and Education)
- The document-based question on AP history exams is a good task, but a singular one. (Class Struggle)
- P.S. 244, the Queens school with an all-vegetarian cafeteria, gets a satirical Zagat treatment. (Times)
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