August 02, 2009 by Kristen Alloway THE STAR-LEDGER Highland Park schools are spending $15,000 in federal stimulus money to ensure students who need reading and writing help get it this summer. Rockaway Township schools sent nearly 40 teachers for summer training, and officials there are purchasing dozens of interactive whiteboards and other items with $277,000 [...]
By Daniel de Vise and Michael Alison Chandler The Washington Post Many of D.C. Region’s Low-Income Areas in a Cycle of Inexperience Students in the region’s poorest neighborhoods are nearly twice as likely to have a new or second-year teacher as those in the wealthiest, a Washington Post analysis has found. The pattern means some [...]
November 25, 2008 By AP / LIBBY QUAID Time (WASHINGTON) — Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who [...]
By JENNIFER MEDINA The New York Times More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students — roughly 20 percent — missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to a report scheduled for release on [...]
By Lesli A. Maxwell Education Week Washington One of Michelle A. Rhee’s favorite tales of incompetence inside the District of Columbia public schools was her discovery, last fall, that mishandled paperwork and a missed meeting by an employee was costing the system nearly a half million dollars a year. The worker’s mistakes, Ms. Rhee said, [...]
June 12, 2008 By SAM DILLON The New York Times Democrats are dividing into camps as they debate a new course for education policy after President Bush leaves office. On Wednesday, a group of a dozen prominent educators and lawmakers, led by Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein of New York and the Rev. Al Sharpton, [...]
Review & Outlook The Wall Street Journal Democrats in Congress have finally found a federal program they want to eliminate. And wouldn’t you know, it’s one that actually works and helps thousands of poor children. We’re speaking of the four-year-old Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that provides vouchers to about 2,000 low-income children so they [...]