At the heart of Chancellor Joel Klein’s strategy to close failing New York City schools is a belief that demographics don’t predict destiny. Perhaps no place in the city embodies that idea better than 1224 Park Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. There, two middle schools—M.S. 334 and M.S. 354—share a building. Each is 90% black [...]
March 7, 2010 by Elizabeth Green The New York Times ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for [...]
The consequences of putting job protection ahead of learning. The Wall Street Journal School reformers generally agree that the most important education resource is the teacher. But one of the biggest obstacles to putting a good instructor in every classroom is a tenure system that forces principals to hire and retain teachers based on seniority [...]
January 20th 2010 Juan Gonzalez The NY Daily News Nothing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein can say will calm the furor and sense of betrayal parents and teachers at Public School 15 in Brooklyn have felt for the past few weeks. “There is a deliberate attempt [by Klein] to undermine and dismantle a successful public school, [...]
By JENNIFER MEDINA The New York Times They take great pride in introducing themselves as the “odd couple,†leading an unlikely bipartisan alliance of politicians under the banner of school reform. This week brought their latest display of strange bedfellows, as the couple, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and the Rev. Al Sharpton, co-sponsored a [...]
By CARL CAMPANILE The New York Post President Obama’s education czar is urging Albany to keep Mayor Bloomberg in control of New York City’s schools — citing “real progress” under Hizzoner and his handpicked chancellor, Joel Klein.
By JACOB GERSHMAN The New York Post HOW would Mayor Bill Thompson run the city’s school system? The question’s been overlooked as Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein plead their case for another four years in charge of the city’s schools. But when you take a look at the education record of the mayor’s [...]
By ELISSA GOOTMAN The New York Times Two new schools created as part of the Bloomberg administration’s effort to replace large, abysmal high schools with collections of small schools were named Monday to the state’s list of failing schools. The state list, known as Schools Under Registration Review, is made up of schools that the [...]