Charter-school chain called nation’s best
12/31/2007
Scott Stephens
Plain Dealer Reporter
It’s often called the nation’s best charter-school chain, the Tiffany network of urban education.
Next year, it will hang a shingle in Ohio.
The Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, a network of 57 schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia, will open a middle school in Columbus […]

This Week News12/27/2007David J. Cross
ThisWeek Staff Writer A name change, new board members and an improved state report card rating topped the headlines for the Columbus school district during the past 12 months. In August, Superintendent Gene Harris announced Columbus City Schools moved up a notch in the state’s rating system to “Continuous Improvement,” the […]

 This Week News
12/27/2007
David J. Cross
ThisWeek Staff Writer 
Columbus City Schools could see a change in the way it houses its students in the future.
At the Dec. 18 Board of Education meeting Superintendent Gene Harris proposed the district reconfigure both its elementary schools and high schools.
Under the plan, elementary schools would house students from pre-kindergarten through sixth […]

 Students, Teachers Tackle Algebra
The Washington Post
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
12/26/2007
Joanne Tegethoff teaches algebra. Never mind that her students carry Disney princess and Thomas the Tank Engine backpacks and have the alphabet taped on their desks. The Montgomery County first-graders one recent afternoon were learning to write “number sentences” to help Lucy Ladybug. “Lucy wakes […]

The New York Times
December 25, 2007
By WARREN ST. JOHN
DECATUR, Ga. - Parents at an elementary school here gathered last Thursday afternoon with a holiday mission: to prepare boxes of food for needy families fleeing some of the world’s horrific civil wars.
The community effort to help refugees resembled countless others at this time of year, with […]