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 [...]

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,” [...]

 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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]