by | Mar 28, 2011 10:58 am | Comments (43)
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If both sides agree on a deal, New Haven may hire its first for-profit charter company to run a public school.
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by | Mar 21, 2011 4:41 pm | Comments (42)
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Clemente students celebrated the opening of a new school building last fall.
Principals at Wexler-Grant School and Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy will get the rare power to pick a whole new slate of teachers next year, as their schools become the next to undergo major reforms.
by | Mar 15, 2011 11:08 am | Comments (35)
More kids are showing up to school at New Haven’s new charter experiment, though not all the adults are sticking around.
That was one result gleaned Monday as principals of four pilot schools at the center of New Haven’s school reform drive offered updates for their bosses.
by | Feb 28, 2011 2:14 pm | Comments (19)
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Principal Karen Lott.
Two new teachers are preparing for a test next week — one that’s also a test of the city’s first-of-its-kind experiment to transform a failing school.
by | Feb 28, 2011 2:38 am | Comments (0)
The Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven sponsored a forum Wednesday, February 16, with the theme of “21st Century Learning.” The event, held at the New Haven Public Library’s Wilson branch in the Hill, included as main speaker Marion Martinez, associate commissioner for teaching, learning, and instructional leadership at the State Department of Education. City librarian Christopher Korenowsky made welcoming remarks.
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Curtis Hill, who is on the Literacy Coalition board as well as founding executive director of Concepts for Adaptive Learning, spoke on behalf of the Coalition and its new website, at http://www.literacyeveryday.org/, which was launched with support from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
by | Feb 21, 2011 1:20 pm | Comments (2)
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After falling behind freshman year, Freddy Beloz needs just an extra half a credit to graduate high school in June. While his friends caught the bus, he stayed behind at an ACER computer at Wilbur Cross and started catching up.
Continue reading ‘Online Experiment Aims For That Last Credit’
by | Feb 16, 2011 8:21 am | Comments (5)
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After years of field trips and PTO meetings, a mother-daughter duo is looking to step into a new role — advising a new principal on how to “turn around” the Brennan/Rogers School.
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by | Feb 9, 2011 3:40 pm | Comments (5)
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Claudia Herrera Tuesday night learned about the New Haven public schools’ new Promise program to provide college scholarships to qualifying high school graduates. Now she plans to spread the word in her neighborhood.
She’s just the kind of organizer the program is looking for.
by | Jan 21, 2011 1:14 pm | Comments (8)
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A local NAACP member wanted to know how to get parents more involved in New Haven’s school reform drive. Responded Schools Superintendent Reggie Mayo: It’s a constant struggle.
by | Jan 18, 2011 9:04 am | Comments (18)
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BALTIMORE — When two kids get into a fight in a New Haven school, what’s the punishment? Baltimore school officials asked.
“Nine days out-of-school suspension,” replied Jaime Ramos, an assistant principal at Wilbur Cross High School.
“Oh my God,” murmured a Baltimore principal.
by | Jan 17, 2011 12:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Principal Peggy Moore.
A student advisory won’t get started until March, and a parent governance panel may miss a Jan. 15 deadline, as a new principal inherits plans to “transform” the city’s largest high school.
Continue reading ‘At Wilbur Cross, Transition Slows Changes’
by | Jan 11, 2011 8:34 am | Comments (32)
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“Exemplary” 3rd grade teacher Marilyn Ciarleglio.
(Updated) John C. Daniels School has five “exemplary” teachers. Worthington Hooker has none. Those were among the results as teachers got their first feedback from New Haven’s new teacher-grading system — one that is very much a work in progress.
by | Jan 10, 2011 1:03 pm | Comments (16)
New Haven schools team arrives in Baltimore.
First of two parts.
BALTIMORE — Darren Farmer spent four years as a high school dropout, hanging out on the streets of East Baltimore and serving time in jail. Now he’s back in class at the W.E.B. DuBois High School. New Haven’s school reform team followed him there to find out the secret to what brought him back inside.
by | Dec 20, 2010 12:10 pm | Comments (7)
Teacher Dyann Sousa had reached all but one of her 22 students’ families.
“My mom never comes to Report Card Night,” the final student told her. Sousa (pictured) didn’t take “never” for an answer.
To deliver the final report card to the 22nd student in her third-grade class at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, Sousa got in her car and drove to Dunkin’ Donuts. She came back with a perfect attendance score, and a big thank you from Mom.
by | Dec 14, 2010 3:37 pm | Comments (3)
Rising seniors at James Hillhouse High and Metropolitan Business Academy will get trained this summer on how to help their peers prepare for college thanks to a new pact approved as part of the city’s Promise program.
by | Dec 14, 2010 10:01 am | Comments (24)
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In a labor agreement City Hall hopes will set a precedent, Peggy Moore and fellow principals at the helm of the New Haven’s school reform drive have to agreed to health care givebacks estimated to save taxpayers nearly $1 million over the next three years.
by | Dec 13, 2010 4:00 pm | Comments (44)
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Sound School Principal Steven Pynn may get rid of letter grades and keep more students after school, after his marine-themed school earned a top grade in the latest round of rankings. Meanwhile, the low-performing Roberto Clemente and Wexler/Grant were flagged for more drastic reforms.
by | Dec 8, 2010 11:04 am | Comments (15)
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Ex-teach Florence Tomasini.
As Mayor John DeStefano made yet another pitch for his New Haven Promise program, one former teacher asked: How do we help students who aren’t college material?
by | Dec 1, 2010 1:24 pm | Comments (23)
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Diane Ravitch and Henry Fernandez on stage.
(Analysis) After the experts, students, teachers and fans finished weighing in, after the bloggers completed their real-time discussion, and as readers posted morning-after comments, two observations emerged about the current state of the debate over school change in New Haven: Our city wants to chart its own “third path” that differs from how most of how the rest of the country thinks about public education. And we’re not quite sure how to get there yet.
by | Nov 30, 2010 8:36 am | Comments (4)
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If their kids’ schools don’t shape up in three years, parents like Margo Bradley will be able to recommend a dramatic overhaul.
by | Nov 29, 2010 4:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Diane Ravitch.
You can add your voice in person at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School or here online as School Change 2.0 meets New Media 2.0 Tuesday night at a one-of-a-kind summit.
by | Nov 26, 2010 9:15 am | Comments (4)
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As Tavares “Super Reader” Henderson snatched up another 500-page tome at the Brennan/Rogers school, teachers recruited parents to get their students to follow his example.
by | Nov 19, 2010 2:44 pm | Comments (2)
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For the next eight weeks, Yarelis Cordoso and Xitlali Vazquez agreed to eat three fruits or veggies per day, exercise for an hour, and perform an act of kindness before they retire to at least eight hours of sleep.
If they do all those things, they’ll walk away as “heroes.”
by | Nov 19, 2010 8:34 am | Comments (21)
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On the heels of an ambitious city program to help New Haven kids afford college, Democratic politicians vowed to even the playing field for undocumented students like Lorella Praeli.
by | Nov 18, 2010 1:31 pm | Comments (22)
School Change 2.0 is about to meet up with New Media 2.0 in New Haven. You’re invited to join the party.