student achievement

Minnesota Schools Still Separate, Still Unequal

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 11:20am

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court made one of the most important decisions in this nation’s history in Brown v. Board of Education.

Twin Cities Daily Planet

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At Strike’s Root, Runaway Costs in Busing Pupils

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 01/17/2013 - 1:38pm

The day before the start of New York City's first school bus strike in 34 years, a long yellow bus pulled up at Public School 282 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and the little bodies that popped out could be counted on one hand: Three.

The New York Times

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Better No Charter Schools Than Poor Ones

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 10:03am

Charter school proponents, including this newspaper, always make the point that charter schools are public schools. When they work best, they are places that can strike a spark with students who are not learning in a traditional environment.

Kennebec Journal

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Direct Instruction Leadership Institute

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 9:44am

March 4-5, 2013

San Antonio, TX

NIFDI

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Report: After 60 Years, No Achievement Gains Despite Increased Staff

News Update

Alison DeNisco

District Administration, Feb 2013

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student achievement

funding

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NYC DOE Marks Total Of 26 Schools For The Chopping Block

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/08/2013 - 2:47pm

The city on Tuesday expanded its list of more schools headed to close or phase out due to poor performance.

NY1

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Support for School Prayer Declines

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 4:21pm

Support for prayer in school has declined since the 1970s, except among one group: evangelical Christians, finds a new study. The findings may not come as a surprise given the rise of evangelical Christians as a societal force over the same time period. In August, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sociologist Philip Schwadel reported in the journal Sociology of Religion that even as religious affiliations have decreased in America, evangelicals have become more devout.

Yahoo! News

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New Research Helps Explain Why Girls Do Better in School

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:14am

New research from the University of Georgia and Columbia University published in the current issue of Journal of Human Resources suggests that it's because of their classroom behavior, which may lead teachers to assign girls higher grades than their male counterparts.

Science Daily

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Do We Need More Elite High Schools?

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 9:14pm

Anyone who writes a column always has second thoughts: columns you wrote but wish you hadn't; things you said that you might now modify or things you wish you'd said; and columns that, for some reason, went unwritten. As 2012 ends, let me atone for at least the last sin by writing, as I intended to do earlier, about a book-length study called "Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools."

Hartford Courant