Education Reform and Workforce Development

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• In a New Role, Teachers Move to Run Schools
  Sep 7, 2010 — New York Times
  Lytle, a former principal and superintendent in Philadelphia and Trenton.The union-run UFT Charter School in East New York, Brooklyn, has run into problems. Haygood, the principal, stood before the other 37 teachers in the auditorium, two-thirds of whom had previously taught at Avon. One teacher even slid into a split.Afterward, Ms.
• 'Little Rock Nine' member dies
  Sep 6, 2010 — CNN
  Thomas died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, the Little Rock Nine Foundation said in a statement. On September 4, 1957, a national furor erupted as the nine students attempted to enter Central High. The following year, Faubus closed all the Little Rock high schools to avoid integration, the foundation said.
• 'Little Rock Nine' member Jefferson Thomas dead at 67
  Sep 6, 2010 — CNN
  Thomas died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday, the Little Rock Nine Foundation said in a statement. Little Rock police, who feared they could not control the mob, pulled the nine from the school that day, and they returned home. The following year, Faubus closed all the Little Rock high schools to avoid integration, the foundation said.
• Activists ask affluent neighbors for school funding gaps help
  Sep 6, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
  Last year, he arranged for the activists to tour a high school and library on the South Side. "When Rev.
• School set to begin major turnaround
  Sep 6, 2010 — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
  ASL." Like many schools for the deaf nationally, HSDB hasn't met adequate yearly progress goals for student math and reading proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind law. The school also lacks highly qualified teachers (those who have completed their licensure and competency test requirements). Only one of the school's 10 teachers in core areas is highly qualified. Dickerson said the school will never meet the benchmarks for student performance under NCLB,...
• 12 Boston schools face 'make or break' makeover
  Sep 5, 2010 — Boston Herald
  At the seven most troubled schools, all 409 teachers and staff had to reapply for their jobs. The money will pay to keep teachers teaching an extra hour each day.
• A trail that Rhee shouldn't have hit
  Sep 5, 2010 — Washington Post
  I suppose D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee assumed that a Mayor Vincent Gray would not keep her on the job if he won wins the D.C. Democratic primary on Sept. 14. At any rate, on Saturday, Rhee decided to jump into the middle of the primary and hit the campaign trail on the side of the man who gave her the job, Mayor Adrian Fenty. She is a polarizing figure in the District of Columbia, but I’m a fan of Michelle Rhee.
• As new year starts, high hopes for Phila.'s Promise Academies
  Sep 5, 2010 — The Philadelphia Inquirer
  Just 5 percent of Ethel Allen fifth graders read at grade level. When technology teacher Aaron Swan met Ackerman and mentioned he wanted to start a photography club but had no equipment, the superintendent told Swan to send her a list of what he needed. They will have longer school days and years, Saturday school, enrichment activities, tutoring, and lots of extras.
• Best colleges are the ones whose graduates find jobs
  Sep 5, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
  Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid.com and Fastweb. (OOTC:FSWBF) com, notes that only 53.7 percent of people who have graduated or left public colleges and universities are paying as expected. Kantrowitz noted that only 24.4 percent of Harvard Medical School graduates are repaying their loans. On average, she said, students can afford to devote 10 percent of their monthly pay to college loan payments, but if pay is very low, loans should also be limited.
• EDITORIAL
  Sep 5, 2010 — Richmond Times-Dispatch
  Judge Robert Mehrige's busing decision receives considerable play. He scorns the emphasis on testing, and concludes that Freeman and TeeJay approach the standards differently. If TeeJay's approach may be to its students' detriment, then the SOL regimen gives the school little choice.