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Test Scores Show Familiar Tale of Two School Systems 23 Aug 2013 | 04:08 am
A few months ago we did an analysis of the college-readiness numbers of the system’s high-school graduates. That analysis showed that the system’s college-readiness rate – 22.2% — was largely attribu...
Common Core tests as a game changer 9 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
With this year’s introduction of Common Core-aligned tests, flawed as they were, the city schools enter a new era. The transition will be a game changer that will bring angry reactions by teachers and...
U.S. Teachers Paid Less, Work Longer, than OECD Average 4 Jul 2013 | 01:04 am
A new report by the leading organization for international education data finds that public school teachers in the United States earn only about two-thirds of what similarly-educated U.S. workers earn...
Teacher Evaluation: Lesson One 1 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
Let’s begin at the end, with final scoring. We all know that New York State created an evaluation system for New York City on June 1. And we also know that that there are three subcomponents in the n...
The Great Divide in High School College Readiness Rates 27 Jun 2013 | 11:51 pm
10 percent of the schools produce nearly half the college-ready graduates Last week the city announced that 22.2% of students from the high school Class of 2012 met the state’s college-ready standard...
Graduation Rate Dip — Was it Just Harder Tests? 21 Jun 2013 | 01:42 am
When the mayor announced the Class of 2012 graduation rates on June 17, he blamed higher Regents requirements for a drop in the percentage of on-time graduates. But this is not the full explanation. T...
Why They’ll Be at the June 12 Rally 10 Jun 2013 | 09:08 pm
City employees including sanitation workers, college professors and teachers say how they contribute to the city and why they will be at the Fair Contracts for All Rally at City Hall Park at 4 p.m. on...
“Good Poems Begin in Kansas, and End in Oz” 7 May 2013 | 02:12 am
In a recent HuffPost piece, Liz Madans, an English teacher at Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Secondary School for Arts & Technology in Long Island City, writes about teaching poetry to high school seniors and ...
Market-Oriented Reforms Really Don’t Work. What Should We Do Instead? 3 May 2013 | 08:11 pm
[Editor's note: Guest blogger Elaine Weiss is the national coordinator of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.] As many of us have long suspected, the impacts of popular market-oriented reforms ...
How Can sharemylesson.com Help You? 22 Apr 2013 | 08:08 pm
New York City teachers discuss how they have used Share My Lesson as a resource for lesson plans and ideas. “Just the idea of having a place, a database where you can go and get really good lesson pla...
