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Next stop: College. New Haven Promise’s Patricia Melton recruits students for her scholarship program at Tuesday’s announcement.
Wilbur Cross and Coop High led the way as the city boosted its graduation rate by six points last year, according to preliminary data announced Tuesday.
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Bill Gates wants to pay New Haven to develop an “innovative” way of training teachers.
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After two more young men connected to his congregation died of gun violence, Rev. Eldren D. Morrison concluded the need for a new charter school in Dixwell and Newhallville had grown all the more urgent: “the need is between life and death.”
by | Jan 9, 2013 9:01 am | Comments (15)
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Monica De La Cruz & Cristobal Gutierrez get the bad lottery news.
If you’re rolling the dice in the magnet school lottery, your chances of getting a freshman into Metropolitan Business Academy are about 1 in 7. Angling for a seat for a 3‑year-old at Davis Street School? If you don’t live nearby, forget it.
by | Dec 21, 2012 9:31 am | Comments (4)
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College-going boosters showed up at the city’s biggest high school with a “secret sauce” — a real live New Haven public school grad who beat the odds to make it through her first semester in college.
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by | Dec 19, 2012 4:58 pm | Comments (3)
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Student David Rogers and teacher Matt Presser.
When students showed up for report card night at High School in the Community, they didn’t get the usual B, C, or D. Instead, they got a 1.5 in “thesis construction” or a 2 in “plot” — and a mandate to show up for after-school help.
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The teachers union issued a mandate on New Haven’s leap into embracing school reform by reelecting Dave Cicarella as its president.
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Ivan Gusman, son of a Mexican immigrant farm worker, graduated from Hillhouse in 2011.
Two-thirds of black students, but only half of Hispanics, graduated from Wilbur Cross High School in four years.
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by | Dec 12, 2012 1:45 pm | Comments (16)
High-performing teachers and principals could be in line for $5,000 bonuses as soon as next spring, according to newly released details of a plan on spending a windfall of federal money.
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The schools have a new hand on deck in the quest to help teachers develop into leaders.
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For the past two years these best friends have thrown out every container of milk offered to them at their middle school cafeteria. They said the expiration date has passed or it smells rank.
by | Nov 29, 2012 2:12 pm | Comments (2)
Bridgeport and Hartford are still in the running, but New Haven didn’t make the cut in the latest competition for federal money to improve schools.
by | Nov 28, 2012 8:16 pm | Comments (18)
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School reform has to start focusing on attracting top-notch new teachers and training them better, the state’s education chief declared before hundreds of reform-minded New Haveners.
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A Thanksgiving card showed up at Superintendent Reggie Mayo’s door. Inside, he found a photo of a blackened piece of pizza from a school cafeteria.
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Seniors Canas & Berrios lobbied for teacher-dictated homework.
Students involved in a classroom experiment have decided they like the old way better — listening to a teacher in the front of the room, then doing the homework he assigns.
by | Nov 13, 2012 12:30 pm | Comments (9)
With a few taps on an iPad, a New Haven principal may soon determine if her teachers are reaching 9th-grade C‑student girls as well as 10th-grade boys who get As.
by | Nov 12, 2012 9:26 am | Comments (5)
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Bryant Washington tapes a falling sign back onto a library shelf.
Wexler/Grant’s computer lab has been inoperable since the school year began.
A $3.8 million gift from the state couldn’t come soon enough for Sabrina Breland, who has had no working computer lab, no librarian, and too few tutors to match the higher expectations that come with running a “turnaround” school.
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by | Nov 11, 2012 12:37 pm | Comments (16)
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Gary Holder-Winfield — who beat the City Hall machine to win a seat in the state legislature — plans to decide by the end of January whether to take on that diminished machine again by running for mayor.
If he does, the upcoming mayoral campaign will feature a debate on how the grassroots figure into school reform.
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by | Nov 9, 2012 2:02 pm | Comments (9)
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Students like Trevor Smith learned the limits of their vote.
New Haven’s superintendent of schools put his foot down on experimentation in New Haven “turnaround” schools — and forbade High School in the Community from allowing hats in hallways after all.
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Amistad parent Jennifer Rivera-Parker picks up her children Kyla Parker and Jason Parker at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School where child care was offered for parents who attend Parent University.
The following account of Day 1 of “Parent University,” a project associated with New Haven’s school reform drive, wsa submitted by Cara Rosner of United Way, one of the event’s organizers.
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Rickey Traynham, left, joined the majority vote.
School board member Samuels, who wore a hat to Monday’s meeting, opposes letting kids wear hats in schools.
Students and teachers at a “turnaround” school got a double lesson in democracy: They voted to overturn a ban on hats and hoods in hallways, only to see top district officials swing back against their claim to newfound decision-making.
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by | Nov 2, 2012 10:33 am | Comments (4)
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Minh Nguyen and Colin “CJ” LeBel learn about capacity at Gateway’s modified Montessori program.
Parents who feel shut out of New Haven pre‑K spots have proposed a school reform idea of their own: Open a new, parent-backed, public Montessori school for grades pre‑K to 6.
by | Oct 26, 2012 5:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Pro and con: Natasha Smalls and Josh Huelsman.
A week before voters go to the polls, the two opposing campaigns squared off on a question: Does the U.S. Constitution “protect bad hair days”?
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‘Free Speech Invoked
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by | Oct 17, 2012 4:06 pm | Comments (3)
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President Kendrick and parent Taneha Edwards.
Gateway Community College will throw open the doors of its downtown campus to public school parents next month, as President Dorsey Kendrick throws her support behind the latest effort to improve city schools.
by | Oct 16, 2012 2:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Malloy talks to teacher Paulette Jackson, one of the school’s facilitators.
When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy popped by New Haven Tuesday to check out an experiment in how kids get through high school, he saw a germ of an idea he’d like to take statewide.