by | Oct 6, 2008 2:32 am | Comments (25)
Nilda Aponte saw a mother who “looked lost.” She realized that the mother couldn’t understand the English being spoken at a mandatory orientation session of her child’s school, Celentano Museum Academy.
by | Sep 23, 2008 12:14 pm | Comments (1)
April Gareri is a grandmother who has been to every rehearsal and every performance of New Haven’s Alliance Theater company for the past, oh, 11 years. And not only as a spectator and admirer of the theater arts.
by | Sep 2, 2008 8:22 pm | Comments (0)
By Josiah Brown
Continue reading ‘Preschool: Public Policy Gets Personal, Early Childhood Resources and Research’
by | Aug 2, 2008 10:04 pm | Comments (0)
That’s Sandy Malmquist directing one of the 15,000 curious guests she welcomes every year, many of them under two feet tall. She is the director of the Connecticut Children’s Museum, one of New Haven’s quiet treasures. Just who is this little fellow and was Director Malmquist successful? Follow along, and we shall see.
by | Jul 28, 2008 9:03 am | Comments (0)
Latino parents — and grandparents, like Jose Malitasig — were the focus as “Teach Our Children“ hit the streets of Fair Haven.
by | Jul 1, 2008 8:30 am | Comments (3)
Fourteen-year-old Tyler Washington wants to be a pediatrician. This summer, he will get the chance to learn more about medicine while putting dollars in the bank — a head start on all those medical school bills.
by | Jun 17, 2008 9:26 am | Comments (1)
Brandon Hogan lost his coveted blue shirt in the second week of June — for some disrespectful responses to teachers and for hanging out with the silly kids. Not having that shirt had serious consequences for Brandon at home: no TV, no friends allowed to his house, and no use of his cell phone, until the behavior changed and the blue re-earned.
by | Jun 13, 2008 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
Virginia Cordero and her sixth-grade daughter, the marvelous Xena, arrived early for school at St. Martin de Porres Academy. Xena, a member of the Hairspray Club, dedicated to studying and performing the eponymous musical, was going to New York to see the real thing. Her mom had to rush off to finish up the first full house remodeling she and her sons’ fledgling company had undertaken.
by | May 13, 2008 8:26 am | Comments (1)
The public schools asked 800 parents if they feel welcomed when they visit their kids’ schools. Surprise! 96 percent answered in the affirmative.
by | May 2, 2008 12:29 pm | Comments (0)
Xena’s hitting puberty and working on the clarinet. Mom’s planing boards. Their busy lives intersect at school.
by | Apr 7, 2008 7:43 am | Comments (1)
Head Start is not just for kids anymore.
by | Mar 28, 2008 11:31 am | Comments (1)
Barbara Averna is a master reading teacher of her K‑second graders at the Clarence Rogers School in West Rock. Not until this year did she realize what an additional — and profound — contribution she could make by teaching their parents how to be better reading partners to the kids.
by | Mar 17, 2008 9:55 am | Comments (0)
“What they do to these ducks…” said 12-year-old Joshua Blumell as he stood with some 25 other protesters on chilly Chapel Street outside the Union League restaurant. “What they do…, and his sentence trailed off, the second half of it conveyed by a pained facial expression and an averted glance at graphic posters of ducks with metal tubes inserted through their opened beaks.
Continue reading ‘Joshua’s Parents Take Him To “Foie Gras” Service’
by | Mar 11, 2008 5:00 pm | Comments (4)
Shelli and William Sheridan’s special education 8th grader Michael was suspended from school because he bought candy from another student — a punishment the parents said “crushed” their son and made him consider leaving the school.
by | Feb 26, 2008 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
As schools chief Reggie Mayo spoke of new efforts to handle a growing number of students with “serious emotional difficulties,” parents lined up to demand more of a role in crafting policy.
by | Feb 20, 2008 1:04 pm | Comments (11)
The secret: Brandon Hogan’s parents sending daily emails to teacher. Brandon learning the meaning of trust. And Brandon growing sick of Saltines.
by | Feb 15, 2008 8:22 am | Comments (0)
A watch and a video game were exhibits A and B.
by | Feb 11, 2008 9:27 am | Comments (0)
Two weeks ago Heriberto Hernandez was not smiling as he made a desperate public plea before the Board of Education: His fourth-grade son was not getting the help or medication he needed from school officials. Absence-triggered suspensions resulted. Now that has changed.
Continue reading ‘Son Gets Pills; Suspension Policy Targeted’
by | Feb 11, 2008 9:24 am | Comments (0)
Only one or two New Haven Public Schools have old fashioned 20-minute recess. Nilda Aponte is set on changing that.
by | Feb 7, 2008 12:25 pm | Comments (1)
James, Jameisah and Nate’ Via were in the stands along with 50 other cheering parents and siblings when Michael Via and the rest of the King/Robinson five took on the Wexler-Grant basketballers.
by | Jan 29, 2008 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
School officials called Heriberto Hernandez’s son a “headache.” It turned out the headache was a symptom of a school staffing & communication disorder.
by | Jan 25, 2008 9:09 am | Comments (0)
OK, parents: Three people shake hands with each other, without repeating. How many total shakes will there be?
by | Dec 20, 2007 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
Virginia Cordero made it, breathlessly, in time for daughter Xena’s holiday concert. Mom’s busy working up a new trick. So’s Xena.
by | Dec 18, 2007 12:50 pm | Comments (4)
Some New Haven parents want their kids to play the way they did as children — at school, during recess. Click here for the story.
by | Dec 14, 2007 11:23 am | Comments (2)
In the transition from home-schooling to the classroom, it proved elusive.