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Grading the Teachers

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In Los Angeles and across the country, education officials have long known of the often huge disparities among teachers. They've seen the indelible effects, for good and ill, on children. But rather than analyze and address these disparities, they have opted mostly to ignore them.

A Times analysis, using data largely ignored by LAUSD, looks at which educators help students learn, and which hold them back.

Study Finds New York Has Lowest Grad Rate for Black Males

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

New York City has one of the lowest graduation rates for black males of any city, according to a new report by the Cambridge-based Schott Foundation for Publc Education. Only 28 percent of the city's black males graduated on time with Regents diplomas in 2008 compared to 50 percent of white males. That's a gap of 22 points.

From no home to White House

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Warmsley is among four young people whose fight to secure stable housing was featured in an April story in The Dispatch.

She and Angela Lariviere, director of the Youth Empowerment Program at the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio, were asked to attend the launch of a plan that aims to prevent and end homelessness for families, veterans and youths in five to 10 years.

Student Achievement Plummets on New York State Exams

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:00:00 GMT

After years of steady improvement, it now appears that test scores have fallen in New York State. The percentage of elementary and middle school students passing the annual math and reading tests has dropped by double digits.

Major cuts: High schools face hard economic lessons

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation's economic downturn.

Judge Blocks Closing of 19 New York City Schools

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

A judge on Friday blocked the closing of 19 schools for poor performance, finding the city engaged in “significant violations” of the new state law governing mayoral control of city schools. The ruling, a setback to one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s signature education policies, means the city will have to start over in making its case to close the schools, this time, the judge wrote, with “meaningful community involvement.”

Restorative Justice stops fights, keeps kids in school

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Padres Unidos has staged rallies and protests to push Denver Public Schools to change its discipline policy over the years away from "zero tolerance."

Southern Schools Mark Two Majorities

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The South has become the first region in the country where more than half of public school students are poor and more than half are members of minorities, according to a new report.

Teachers face mass layoffs as stimulus runs out

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Using federal stimulus money to avoid layoffs at schools is going to create a shortfall even more difficult for states and schools to contend with when that money runs out, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Monday.

School Grades Reflect Persistent Disparity

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Over the last three years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor, black and Hispanic students, despite an evaluation system that was meant to equalize differences among student bodies, according to an analysis by The New York Times of school grades released this week.