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DOE Reveals Summer Students To Schools

DOE Reveals Summer Students To Schools

By | June 13, 2012 at 9:11 am | No comments

NY1 has an article about how many students will have to attend summer school. City schools found out Monday which students will have to go to summer school.  The Department of Education estimated that nearly 33,000 third through eighth-grade students are being recommended to...

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City Panel Approves Special Education Inclusion Plan

City Panel Approves Special Education Inclusion Plan

By | May 25, 2012 at 9:21 am | No comments

The New York Times School Book has an article about the city's new special education plan, budget and execution A plan to restructure the city’s special education program by funneling thousands of learning-disabled children into mainstream classrooms — an increasingly...

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SAT Scores Are Invalidated at a Brooklyn School

SAT Scores Are Invalidated at a Brooklyn School

By | 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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D.O.E.’s proposals rejected by overcrowding task force

D.O.E.’s proposals rejected by overcrowding task force

By | April 27, 2012 at 9:49 am | No comments

The city Department of Education’s proposed solutions to this year’s Downtown kindergarten wait lists were shot down by local parents and education activists at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Overcrowding Task Force on Monday. The number of students wait-listed at...

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How To Evaluate Special Education Teachers

How To Evaluate Special Education Teachers

By | April 25, 2012 at 9:27 am | No comments

The Wall Street Journal has an article about the new teacher evaluations and how they apply to special education teachers.  Special education teachers under the new teacher evaluation system have everything going against them, which begs the question, how do we evaluate the...

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Hundreds of Brooklyn kids waitlisted for kindergarten

Hundreds of Brooklyn kids waitlisted for kindergarten

By | April 19, 2012 at 9:25 am | No comments

Huffington Post has an article about how kindergarten has become the newest grade to have long wait lists From the federal government to school boards, policymakers and administrators are increasingly setting their sights on "college and career readiness" as the goal of K-12...

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Race Inequalities In NYC Schools Surprises Nobody

Race Inequalities In NYC Schools Surprises Nobody

By | April 18, 2012 at 9:32 am | No comments

The NY Daily News has an article about how NY city schools are the most segregated school district in the US Black and Latino students are nearly four times more likely than their white and Asian peers to be enrolled in the city’s lowest-performing high schools, a new study...

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Paying Students For AP Scores Increases Scores

Paying Students For AP Scores Increases Scores

By | April 9, 2012 at 9:51 am | No comments

EDweek has an interesting article about how incentives for students to score well on the AP exams have shown positive results.  However, contrary studies have shown that money incentives have grown cheating and no real gains in education as students only prepare for...

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SAT and ACT to Increase Security After Cheating Scandal

SAT and ACT to Increase Security After Cheating Scandal

By | March 28, 2012 at 9:27 am | No comments

The New York Times has an article on how the ETS has started increasing security in their testing centers after a wave of cheating scandals has hit the floor Stung by a cheating scandal involving dozens of Long Island high school students, the SAT and ACT college entrance...

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By | March 25, 2012 at 4:37 pm | No comments

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