By Jason | June 11, 2012 at 9:23 am | No comments
The New York Times has an article about how students across the country are facing pressure to perform well in school that they have started to rely on performance enhancing drugs
He steered into the high school parking lot, clicked off the ignition and scanned the scraps...
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By Jason | May 17, 2012 at 9:20 am | No comments
Nearly 200 students who took the SAT at a Brooklyn private school this month had their scores invalidated by the company that administers the test, apparently because some students were seated too closely together, school officials said Wednesday.
The decision...
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By Jason | April 24, 2012 at 9:27 am | No comments
NJSpotlight has an article about the new superintendent and during a cash strapped economy, given a six digit salary
Almost one year into the job, Newark superintendent Cami Anderson and the Christie administration have inked a contract that will pay her $247,500 for this and...
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By Jason | March 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm | One comment
A 17-year-old male student held two staff members hostage at knifepoint Friday morning at a Ceres high school and had a dead cat in his backpack, according to police.
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Police: Ceres Student Arrested After Holding Staff Members Hostage...
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By Jason | February 15, 2012 at 10:16 am | No comments
About a hundred students are heading up to the state capital today to advocate for the DREAM Act.
The students, along with advocacy group Make the Road New York, spent the day Monday making T-shirts, food packages and legislative packets.
They group will meet with Albany...
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By Jason | December 2, 2011 at 10:25 am | No comments
At Ditmas Junior High School, 95 percent of the students live below the poverty line and the school budget is shrinking, but there is a group of teachers who come in early and work late every day looking for ways to bring more to their students.
Their work may pay off: The...
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By Jason | November 7, 2011 at 10:33 am | No comments
High schools serving the most challenging students were much likelier to get saddled with a bad grade from the Department of Education than schools that serve few high-needs kids, a Post analysis found.
The review showed that of the 100 high schools with the fewest number of...
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By kcaskins | August 30, 2011 at 9:32 am | No comments
A teacher in a Dallas-area school district has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Ennis Independent School District says a letter will be sent to a group of high school students and their parents to help identify potential ..
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Teacher in Ennis ISD...
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By kcaskins | August 30, 2011 at 9:32 am | No comments
Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle. Magazine dedicated to solving the nation's education and high school dropout crisis, and improving education for all children.
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Why NYC Teacher Performance Data...
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By kcaskins | August 30, 2011 at 9:31 am | No comments
A teacher in a Dallas-area school district has tested positive for tuberculosis. The Ennis Independent School District says a letter will be sent to a group of high school students and their parents to help identify potential ...
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Ennis ISD Teacher Tests...
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