by | Nov 17, 2010 5:00 pm | Comments (13)
(Live blog included) The city is counting on students like Marc Lewis and a brigade of volunteers as it launches a second and equally ambitious component of a “promise” to help New Haven kids go to college.
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National teachers union President Randi Weingarten (at left in photo) joined a panel discussion on the new project.
by | Nov 17, 2010 9:00 am | Comments (3)
An urban renewal “refugee,” the son of a cop, looked back five decades at what happened to American cities — and saw where he wants his city to head next. The destination: College, not a highway exit ramp.
by | Nov 15, 2010 4:00 pm | Comments (15)
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Blatteau: C students need the help.
As Yale committed up to $4 million a year to help send New Haven kids to college, it quietly closed down ambitious efforts to train their teachers.
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by | Nov 10, 2010 5:14 pm | Comments (22)
Teachers union VP Low: Beware test-score mania.
Half of New Haven Public School grads enroll in a second year of college within two years of finishing 12th grade. The district wants to boost that number to 75 percent.
by | Nov 9, 2010 2:30 pm | Comments (72)
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(Updated) High-school freshmen across the city got an offer Tuesday from the city and Yale: Keep up good grades and stay in school, and you’ll get a full ride to a state college or university.
Ellyana Simon (at right in photo), whose parents never went to college, said she’s “really excited” about the offer. Imani Manick-Highsmith (at left) said she’d like to use Promise to pay her way to study graphic design at an in-state college.
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by | Oct 26, 2010 2:01 pm | Comments (14)
“May I?” asked Richard Cheng, opening his hands to catch a small inflated ball. He stepped into the circle and showed the teacher how to speed up a morning greeting game. Just two years out of college, Cheng is one of the old-timers at one of the city’s new school-reform projects.
by | Oct 22, 2010 12:22 pm | Comments (7)
In the cafetorium, a teacher was cross-hatching a cartoon character’s robe when a fourth-grader walked over with a carton of apple juice. “Will you draw me one?” Tavis Inabinett asked.
by | Oct 20, 2010 4:32 pm | Comments (6)
Sixth-graders discovered a new cheese atop crostini, as a team of chefs swept into city classrooms on a mission from Michelle Obama.
Can you really eat that?
by | Oct 19, 2010 3:31 pm | Comments (8)
Saying that black and Latino kids are falling behind peers not just in New Haven but in Greenwich, business leaders unveiled a statewide plan to close the achievement gap over 10 years through extra tuturoing, mandatory pre‑K, and longer school days. among other ideas.
by | Oct 18, 2010 10:02 am | Comments (18)
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Superman never came to rescue Patra Drury. Now she has found hope she might still learn something at school.
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by | Oct 15, 2010 7:36 am | Comments (7)
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Re-examine your curriculum from birth to third grade. Reduce your overreliance on testing. Increase creative free play.
That was the message delivered Thursday to the testing and evaluation-driven New Haven schools by the Gesell Institute of Human Development.
by | Oct 13, 2010 11:04 am | Comments (8)
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Students at Hyde Leadership Academy will get the chance to study sports medicine at a college campus next year, thanks to a nearly $10 million federal grant to four city magnet schools.
by | Oct 12, 2010 12:07 pm | Comments (4)
As they move forward with an ambitious plan to turn around a failing school, Brennan/Rogers’ staffers have taken on an extra task — making sure students with disabilities aren’t left behind.
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by | Oct 7, 2010 1:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Students at Katherine Brennan may be using laptops like this one to report the news, as the “turnaround school” becomes an official magnet school with a communications and media theme.
by | Sep 28, 2010 10:24 am | Comments (8)
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After more than two decades working at New Haven’s largest high school, Michele Sherban-Kline is leaving to take charge of a new way of grading teachers and addressing poor performance.
by | Sep 27, 2010 12:26 pm | Comments (8)
“I’m tired,” complained one student in Richard Cheng’s math class.
“I understand you’re tired, but it’s nine o’clock in the morning, and you still have nine hours more to go,” his teacher replied.
by | Sep 14, 2010 11:01 am | Comments (19)
City school officials decided to do the real math on the number of kids dropping out of high school, and set a new goal for keeping them there.
by | Sep 7, 2010 10:38 am | Comments (22)
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Four- and 5‑year-olds will be going to school for eight hours a day, as they start kindergarten at ground zero for school reform.
by | Sep 1, 2010 7:20 am | Comments (1)
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Kimberly Beard and Lisa Mendes no longer teach the same grade level, but they’ll be working together in a new way when their school opens Wednesday.
by | Aug 31, 2010 7:23 am | Comments (8)
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When she got her new appointment to run the Metropolitan Business Academy, Principal Judy Puglisi had just six weeks to get ready for the first students to arrive at school. She packed her bags, took seven staffers in tow, and set to work on a new program for freshmen.
by | Aug 27, 2010 7:41 am | Comments (6)
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When Robert Ratchford showed up for orientation at his son’s new school, staff promised round-the-clock services — and asked him to do his part in return.
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by | Aug 20, 2010 12:46 pm | Comments (2)
Wilbur Cross sophomores will learn about biotechnology, and Career students will study e‑commerce, as the school district rolls out new science offerings thanks to a federal grant.
by | Aug 18, 2010 8:00 am | Comments (38)
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One was on track to be a dentist. The other worked at a privileged school in New York City. Both were inspired to change course — and teach at a “turnaround” middle school for troubled urban kids.
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‘Teach For America
Crew Doubles In Schools’
by | Aug 12, 2010 1:17 pm | Comments (4)
One city school made enough progress last year to lift off of a federal watch list for “failing” schools. Twenty-five others remain.
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‘Ross/Woodward Graduates
From Federal Watch List’
by | Aug 11, 2010 11:02 am | Comments (4)
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Tavares Bussey left South Carolina to start work at the Katherine Brennan School. He’s one five out-of-state recruits on a new team that aims to transform one of the city’s lowest-performing schools.