October 2007
Schools Raise Bar for Classes for the Gifted »
The New York Times 10/30/07 By ELISSA GOOTMAN In an effort to transform the city’s gifted and talented programs, which he has long derided as a hodgepodge of offerings that have favored children in certain neighborhoods and with well-connected parents, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a plan yesterday to limit the programs to students [...]
Columbus on list of ‘dropout factories’ »
Study of Nation’s High Schools The Columbus Dispatch 10/30/2007 By Emily Zeugner At 14 of Columbus’ 17 high schools, nearly 40 percent or more of the students who started as freshmen have disappeared before graduation day, a trend that’s affecting about 1 out of 10 public high schools statewide, a new analysis has found. Just [...]
1 in 10 Schools Are ‘Dropout Factories’ »
Washington Post By NANCY ZUCKERBROD The Associated Press Tuesday, October 30, 2007; 4:30 AM WASHINGTON — It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout Factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more [...]
Low-Income Students Are Public School Majority in South, Study Finds »
Education Week Published Online: October 30, 2007 By Debra Viadero More than half of public schoolchildren in the U.S. South now come from low-income families, according to a new report, which predicts that the nation as a whole could reach the same demographic milestone within a decade if current trends persist. “What these figures are [...]
Multi-age classrooms continue to thrive in some schools »
Monday, October 29, 2007 3:48 AM By Charlie Boss The Columbus Dispatch Forget being a first- or second-grader: The students in Carla Downes’ class consider themselves olders or youngers. Olders, who are in their second year with Downes, help the youngers. The first-graders, meanwhile, are exposed to the higher-level lessons of their older classmates. Multi-age classes, [...]
