by | Oct 22, 2014 1:43 pm | Comments (8)
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Harries with student council leaders.
Maybe they should have to write a short speech, or make a video. But students running for a seat on New Haven’s Board of Education shouldn’t have to earn B or C averages, citywide student council leaders concluded.
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by | Oct 17, 2014 8:46 am | Comments (2)
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Quinnipiac Principal Nathman talks with parent Marquis Moore.
Quinnipiac Elementary School students got a special reminder to show up for picture day the next morning — from their principal, who appeared at their doorsteps to personally deliver the announcement.
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by | Oct 8, 2014 1:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Superintendent Garth Harries joins the class activity
State and city administrators joined Elm City Montessori School students in semi-structured playtime Wednesday morning, during the school’s official opening six weeks after classes had begun.
by | Oct 6, 2014 3:42 am | Comments (0)
New Teacher-Developed Curricular Resources Available; Partnership Begins 38th Year
Curriculum units that teachers from 19 New Haven public schools developed as Fellows in four Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminars in 2014 are available at this website. (http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/)
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by | Oct 3, 2014 1:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Quinnipiac parent Laconi praised the school’s high standards.
If a child graduates from a K‑4 school and the only neighborhood middle school with available spots begins in sixth grade, where should that student go?
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by | Sep 23, 2014 8:55 am | Comments (9)
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DeCola: Grade requirements would be un-American.
The student who sits on New Haven’s Board of Education may have to show up at school regularly — and may or may not have to maintain a C average.
Alders debated that proposition Monday night.
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by | Sep 22, 2014 3:34 pm | Comments (0)
Don’t panic, but when you wash your hands with soap and water, sing the Happy Birthday song twice. That’ll ensure you wash for at least 20 seconds.
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by | Sep 22, 2014 8:06 am | Comments (5)
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Teacher Tori Aroworade signed up for the pilot program.
Pending federal approval, New Haven teachers will soon be able to apply to live in public housing rent-free in exchange for providing after-school programs for students.
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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.
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by | Sep 17, 2014 2:33 pm | Comments (10)
Svigals + Partners
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.
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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.
Continue reading ‘State Board OKs Charter’s Sept. 15 Opening’