by | Sep 22, 2014 4:46 am | Comments (0)
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Yale-New Haven Hospital donated 10,000 pens, pencils, notebooks, backpacks and other supplies to Newhallville’s Lincoln-Bassett School, as part of its annual United Way fundraising campaign.
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by | Sep 18, 2014 12:03 pm | Comments (4)
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Seventh-grader Korey Kornegay and his friends were building cars with a rubber band as the only power source.
The instructions said to use putty to attach the wheels, but the kids and teachers found that the parts slipped. Instead they substituted foam and, yes, good old duct tape.
They were learning how to think like engineers.
Continue reading ‘Celentano Morphs Into Biotech Middle School’
by | Sep 17, 2014 2:33 pm | Comments (10)
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For the last six years Juwan Rollins and Khadesia Walker have gone to a school without a permanent home. Now they’re helping to build one of their own.
by | Sep 11, 2014 1:19 pm | Comments (0)
Four Metropolitan Business Academy students are raising money to take their short film, Cell Four, to the 2014 All American High School Film Festival in New York on Oct. 27.
by | Sep 10, 2014 8:46 am | Comments (0)
Once at risk for joining a gang, New Haven public school student John Smith recently got involved with his school’s audiovisual club after school. His grandmother met with a teacher last week to discuss his improved performance.
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by | Sep 9, 2014 2:18 pm | Comments (4)
What was supposed to be a straightforward Board of Education presentation turned into a spirited discussion, as parents, teachers and board members shared their views on a new vision statement.
by | Sep 9, 2014 8:14 am | Comments (4)
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Bartlett: Tech careers offer a route out of trouble.
Starting in October, at-risk teens will find it easier to train to become pipefitters or factory workers — and stay in high school in the meantime.
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by | Sep 8, 2014 11:05 am | Comments (12)
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Malloy (left), Cicarella and Weingarten (right).
Fair Haven teachers told Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Friday that new opportunities to work together — rather than against each other — have made them better at their jobs.
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by | Sep 5, 2014 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
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Parents, students and teachers found themselves doing the “wobble” on the green of Lincoln-Bassett School. The dance wasn’t planned — but the effect of the dance was.
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by | Aug 15, 2014 8:33 am | Comments (2)
Following are two letters about the impending move of New Light High School to the Wooster Square neighborhood. The first, written by Superintendent Garth Harries to neighborhood Alder Aaron Greenberg, responds to concerns raised by neighbors once they learned about the move. The second letter, by neighborhood activist Ruth Koizim, presses for more of a response.
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by | Aug 15, 2014 7:52 am | Comments (4)
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New Haven schools took one step forward and two steps back in the latest release of standardized test scores.
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by | Aug 15, 2014 7:50 am | Comments (0)
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Streaks of green, violet and vermillion adorned a wall in Room 118. The variegated mural, of seven human figures raising their arms toward the sky, seems to pulsate with kinetic energy — a tie-dye starburst of color.
Continue reading ‘At Lincoln-Bassett, A Fresh And Colorful Start’
by | Aug 14, 2014 2:45 pm | Comments (6)
To the last-minute surprise of neighbors, Wooster Square will make room for two new schools this fall.
by | Aug 13, 2014 8:05 am | Comments (5)
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The New Haven school district is bringing meals to kids via truck at four new sites for stops through Aug. 22.
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by | Aug 11, 2014 8:26 am | Comments (0)
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Students work on site at an earlier event at Common Ground high school, creating an educational wetland as part of the urban oases program.
Common Ground High School sent in these photos and the following write-up about the creation of urban wildlife refuges in New Haven, announced at an event Friday morning featuring kids, environmentalists, politicians and the United States Fish & Wildlife Services (USFWS).
by | Aug 8, 2014 8:20 am | Comments (1)
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Surveying the spiral spine of a new play structure his company is installing in New Haven, Spencer Luckey marveled at his good fortune: He gets to doodle for a living, making far-fetched plans for enormous dreamscapes, and then sees them come to life in cities across the globe.
by | Aug 4, 2014 5:18 pm | Comments (10)
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Varick congregants traveled up to Monday’s hearing.
Rev. Morrison: “FUSE was not the core.”
HARTFORD — A new New Haven charter school won permission from the State Board of Education Monday to launch this coming school year, after all.
The board called a special meeting Monday afternoon to consider the fate of the Booker T. Washington Academy (BTWA). After a two-and-a-half hour hearing, the board voted unanimously to allow the academy a revised charter to open its doors on Sept. 15 to 120 K‑1 students.
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by | Aug 4, 2014 2:13 pm | Comments (0)
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ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons & board chair Carlton Highsmith.
An ambitious youth arts-enrichment center based at Science Park is opening an outpost in Newhallville to help lead an experiment in reversing the fortunes of a struggling school.
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by | Aug 1, 2014 4:00 pm | Comments (12)
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Amistad High grad Shehu Muhammad (at left) turned down his top choice, Worcester Polytechnic, to use Promise money at CCSU.
New Haven Promise is sending more city kids to college in Connecticut — which has led some educators to question whether the scholarship program is inadvertently limiting their students’ chances for success.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Promise To Revisit In-State Rule’
by | Aug 1, 2014 3:07 pm | Comments (0)
The New Haven Adult Education Center has hired Veronica Douglas-Givan as family and community resource coordinator, overseeing recruitment and marketing, as well as “facilitat[ing] employability skills workshops and championing the school’s community outreach efforts.” An Emmy-award-winning journalist best known for her work over the years on air and behind the scenes at at WTNH and WYBC, Douglas-Givan, who grew up in New Haven, previously helped the public school district roll out its Parent University. (Read a full release here.)
by | Jul 29, 2014 3:04 pm | Comments (6)
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New Haven schools have hired away an administrator from Hartford to help make the city’s enrollment process less confusing for parents.
by | Jul 29, 2014 12:04 pm | Comments (2)
Goad (left) and Barile.
A wooden crucifix adorns the wall of this eighth-grade history classroom at Saint Bernadette Catholic School — with a web-connected touch-controlled electronic white board hanging directly below the cross.
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by | Jul 28, 2014 5:01 pm | Comments (21)
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Principal Brown-Clayton at Monday’s announcement.
Mayor Toni Harp’s campaign pledge to bring a nearly 11-hour optional school day to Lincoln-Bassett School came true Monday, as the state announced it will help pay the bill.
by | Jul 23, 2014 2:31 pm | Comments (17)
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Achievement First CEO Dacia Toll.
Elm City College Preparatory Middle School has emerged as the most likely seat of an ambitious experiment to reinvent K‑8 education with two-week-long student expeditions, daily martial arts, and a “huge” investment in technology.
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by | Jul 22, 2014 9:02 am | Comments (3)
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Comer pioneered a child development idea a half-century ago at Brennan-Rogers, where it returns this fall.
One of New Haven’s experimental school sites ditched a hot modern education-reform idea, an extra-long school day, and is bringing back an older idea — daily tough talks to help kids deal with trauma.