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 who score in […]

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 under 70 Ohio high schools […]

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 than one in […]

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 beginning to tell us […]

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, which Wright Elementary […]