by | May 12, 2014 12:21 pm | Comments (3)
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Therese Cisse, an 11-year-old refugee from Guinea, couldn’t play her school’s new brass instruments the customary way because of a birth defect in her right hand. So she picked up a trombone, flipped it backwards, and gave it a mighty toot.
by | May 12, 2014 8:12 am | Comments (18)
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Alder Brackeen called for flat-funding the schools.
(News analysis) As a contentious budget season comes to a head, some fundamental questions have surfaced: Has the city been paying millions more than it’s required to for education? Could — and should — that money go toward reducing taxes or paying for other city services?
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by | May 9, 2014 4:21 pm | Comments (3)
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NEW YORK — Six years after leaving public housing in Westville Manor, Toddchelle Young prepared to wrap up a master’s degree at Columbia — by leading a lesson on a groundbreaking immigration policy hatched in her hometown.
by | May 9, 2014 8:23 am | Comments (35)
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Union prez Cicarella and Harp.
Declaring it seeks to prevent a “conflict of interest,” the teachers union is calling on Mayor Toni Harp to make sure her next appointment to the school board doesn’t have ties to charter schools.
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by | May 8, 2014 8:40 am | Comments (7)
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Teacher Julie Bergeron plans to reapply for her job and possibly earn a bonus.
Teachers have until May 16 to decide whether they want to stay at one of the city’s most challenging schools as it enters its next chapter — with a new twist on how to rebuild.
by | May 2, 2014 8:28 am | Comments (16)
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When a 6‑year-old at Wexler-Grant School started having a bronchial spasm, school nurse Gloria Rosati-Culver was there to save her life — because it was a Thursday.
by | Apr 30, 2014 11:19 am | Comments (10)
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Klein.
New Haven principals are learning how to use a new Web tool to analyze how teachers spend their time, thanks to Rupert Murdoch and Joel Klein.
Continue reading ‘Murdoch Firm Snags $94K For Principal Training’
by | Apr 29, 2014 2:18 pm | Comments (5)
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When Makiyah McArthur leaves Hillhouse High to pursue her dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon, she won’t have to worry about paying her tuition bills.
by | Apr 29, 2014 9:00 am | Comments (7)
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Baker.
Crocco.
A fast-rising star became principal of her own school within Hillhouse High, another principal got a promotion, and a Baltimore budget chief signed up to tackle New Haven’s schools budget, in a new round of Board of Ed appointments.
by | Apr 28, 2014 8:22 am | Comments (1)
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Hare and Davis.
She sent a group of Dixwell kids from the old Elm Haven projects to Paris to study ballet. For others she obtained scholarships to local dance schools.
She taught African-American kids to square dance and do the hokey pokey, and most of all to dream big, structure their lives with steps and order, as in a dance, and to believe in themselves.
by | Feb 3, 2014 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
When I was young, relatives told me to stay out of the sun, because “you’ll get sunburned.” The message: You don’t want to be too black.
They told me only adults drink coffee, because if children drank it, it would make you BLACK.
by | Jan 8, 2014 4:36 pm | Comments (4)
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Korenowsky (right) chats with a branding consultant at the library’s 125th anniversary.
(Updated) Head City Librarian Christopher Korenowksy has resigned.
by | Nov 18, 2013 4:27 pm | Comments (5)
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Oppenheimer, author of the new Zen Predator of the Upper East Side
Mark Oppenheimer had an old story to tell — and found a new way to tell it. Then he spoke about it. Kind of.
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by | Jun 20, 2013 2:06 pm | Comments (0)
A physicist studying the motion of matter’s tiniest particles and a choreographer studying the motion of people across a stage discovered a common language — and unlocked the secret artistry behind scientist-speak.
by | Jun 14, 2013 11:05 am | Comments (2)
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Surrounded by old-media volumes in a library with a storied past, 60 people gathered in the second floor of a narrow Chapel Street landmark to hear about new-media news websites and the future of journalism.
by | Apr 18, 2013 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
They made a ruckus at Stetson Branch Library — with permission.
by | Apr 17, 2013 4:03 pm | Comments (2)
James reading a passage from her book.
He made a choice that landed him in prison. Ultimately she has to make a choice, too — whether she wants to continue a relationship with an incarcerated man.
Continue reading ‘Women, Don’t “Go There” With A Man In Prison’