Small Schools, Large Districts: Small-School Reform and New York City’s Students
by Patrice Iatarola, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel & Colin C. Chellman
Using 10 years of data on New York City high schools, this study examines the implications of small-school reform by comparing small schools with their larger counterparts and [...]
http://www.citylimi ts.org/news/ articles/ 4033/school- test-givers- face-their- own-test
Fred Smith
Earlier this month students took the New York State Math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests. More than a million kids in grades 3 through 8 spent parts of two or three days answering multiple-choice items and questions that ask them to [...]
May 25, 2010
Vadim Lavrusik
Reporter, School Stories
Posted: May 25, 2010 03:10 PM
A Race for Diplomas Before Brooklyn’s Tilden High Closes for Good
Triston Williams works on a credit recovery course at Samuel J. Tilden High School. The school is using credit recovery to help students who are behind graduate on time before it closes [...]
NY 1 coverage: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/119209/city-oks-layoffs-of-high-school-parent-coordinators
by Philissa Cramer
Joining 6,400 teachers on the chopping block are 350 parent coordinators whose schools will no longer be required to employ them, Chancellor Joel Klein announced today.
For the first time since the position was created in 2003, high schools will be allowed to go without a parent [...]
A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life in America,
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Introduction: Views On Immigration
Part One: The Right Move
Part Two: Fitting In
Part Three: Common Threads,
Different Voices
In Their Own Words
Survey Questions & Answers
Views of the U.S.
Life as an immigrant
Parents and children
Interactions with [...]
