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Teacher Fired For Traumatizing Math Problems For Third Graders

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Math Assignments, Elementary Schoolers, Video, Math Problems, Washington D.C. Schools, Charter Schools, Third Graders, Center City Public Charter School, Morbid Math Problems, Teacher Crime, d.c. Schools, Teacher Fired, Slavery Math Problems, School Assignments, Education News

A Washington, D.C. teacher who sent home violent, morbid and traumatizing math problems to third graders from Center City Public Charter School's Trin...

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Suspended Disbelief

Judith Sandalow | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Suspension, School Suspensions, Dcps, Dc Schools, Elementary School Suspensions, Tools of the Mind, Student Suspension, DC News
Judith Sandalow

Monday's front page story in the Washington Post focused on the high rate of elementary school suspensions. Understandably, many people find it hard to believe this form of discipline is used so often with children so young.

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Thousands Of D.C. Students Suspended Before They Can Spell

The Washington Post | Donna St. George | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Students Suspended, Dc Schools, Washington Dc Schools, Student Discipline, Montgomery County, School Suspensions, Prince William County, Elementary School Suspensions, Education News

Thousands of elementary students were suspended from public schools last year in Washington and its suburbs, some of them so young that they were lear...

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Memphis' New Teacher Evaluation System Adopted From Controversial D.C. Program

| Sarah Garland | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Tennessee Schools, Video, Teach Plus, Teacher Evaluations, Millington Middle School, Student Achievement, Memphis Schools, Teacher Assessment, Hechinger Report, d.c. Schools, d.c. Teacher Evaluations, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the third in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comme...

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The Nation's Young Hit Hard By Recession, Squeezed Out Of Early Education

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: New York Schools, Public Pre-K, Washington D.C. Schools, Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators, Public Pre-Kindergarten, FPG Child Development Institute, Alliance for Quality Education, District of Columbia, Eliot Spitzer, New York Education, Early Education, National Institute for Early Education, Chester Finn, Prekindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Pre-K, d.c. Schools, Head Start Program, Low-Income Students, Education News

WASHINGTON — The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shr...

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Yale Grads Launch Experimental Teach For America Alternative

| Neena Satija | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Public Schools, New Haven Public Schools, Urban Schools, New Haven, The Future Project, Teach for America, Kanya Balakrishna, New Haven Schools, New Haven Academy, Video, Dc Schools, Urban Students, Washington, Andrew Mangino, Yale University, New York Schools, d.c. Schools, Teachers, Future Fellows, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of New Haven Independent. A daycare in every New Haven public school for young mothers. A documentary about the dev...

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D.C. Schools Students Reveal High Rates Of Sex, Fear And Suicide Attempts

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Youth Emotional Behavior, Youth Wellbeing, Washington Dc Schools, Youth Risk Behavior Study, Risky Behavior, Youth Health, Suicide Attempts, Student Sex, Video, Education, Dc Schools, Center for Disease Control, School Risky Behavior, DC Public Schools, Youth Gangs, School Suicide, Student Health, Youth Suicide, Kaya Henderson, Youth Sexuality, Education News

D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson had some revealing statistics to share with city council members Tuesday -- almost 10 percent of 8th gra...

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Obama To Students: Future Is Up To You

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: College Preparation, White House, Video, Education, Dc Schools, Education Policy, Obama Back to School Speech, No Child Left Behind, Barack Obama Education Policy, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, Obama, Education Reform, Back to School Speech, Barack Obama, Back to School, Education News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told students Wednesday in a back-to-school address that they bear responsibility in helping America get bac...

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Order To Rehire 75 D.C. Teachers Fired During Rhee Era Is Upheld

The Washington Post | Bill Turque | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Dc Teachers Fired, Dc Schools, Teacher Evaluations, Dc Teachers Rehired, DC Public Schools, Public Employee Relations Board, Charles Feigenbaum, Teacher Assessment, Teachers Fired, Teachers, Teacher Rehiring, Impact, Education News

The District's labor-management relations board has upheld an arbitrator's decision ordering the D.C. Public Schools to rehire 75 new teachers fired i...

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D.C. Students To Be Tested On Sex Education, Drugs

AP | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Sex Education Exam, Dc Schools, Sex Ed, DC Public Schools, Washington Dc Schools, Sexual Education, Drug Education Test, Dc Sex Education Test, Drug Education Exam, Sex Education, Sex Education Test, Education News

WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia public schools are planning to test students on their knowledge of human sexuality, contraception and drug use this...

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Back to School in the Nation's Capital

Lindsey Buss | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Dc Education Programs, Dc Education, Dcps, Martha's Table Teen Program, Martha's Table, Washington Dc Schools, Dc Graduation Rates, Dc Schools, DC Public Schools, Dcps Graduation Rates, Dc Impact, DC News
Lindsey Buss

Back to School. A time of excitement, anxiety and... failure?

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D.C. Schools Closed In Earthquake Aftermath

Georgetown, D.C. Patch | Shaun Courtney | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Education, Dc Schools, Virginia Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Washington Dc Schools, Earthquake, Kaya Henderson, Dc Schools Chancellor, DC Earthquake, Education News

Updated 7:12 a.m. All District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) will be closed Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, to allow for a thorough assessment of sch...

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Michelle Rhee Eager For Spotlight, But Not In Cheating Scandal

The New York Times | MICHAEL WINERIP | Posted 10.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Why won't Michelle Rhee talk to USA Today? Ms. Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington public schools from 2007 to 2010, is the nation...

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D.C. Educator: Teachers Are Overpaid

Education Week | Michael Bromley | Posted 10.03.2011

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Note: Michael Bromley, a teacher in Washington, DC, is guest-posting this week. My colleagues groan when I say it, and then tell me to shut up: tea...

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The 5 Most Shocking Public School Cheating Scandals

Posted 09.25.2011

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The country's abuzz with the news and subsequent unfolding of the nation's largest-ever public schools cheating scandal in Atlanta, as the scandal has...

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D.C. Schools Fires More Than 400 Teachers

Posted 09.14.2011

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D.C. Public schools fired 413 teachers today as a result of poor annual evaluations. This year, 663 Washington Teachers' Union members will be rece...

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How School Districts Facing Cheating Allegations Are Moving Forward

Posted 09.12.2011

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Three year-round elementary schools opened for classes in Atlanta today without problems, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Two of the thre...

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DC School Teacher Fired For 'Testing Impropriety'

Washington Examiner | By: Steve Chapman | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Standardized Test Cheating, Dc Schools, Washington DC Public Schools, DC Public Schools, Washington Dc Schools, Testing Scandal, Testing Cheating, Standardized Testing, Kaya Henderson, Cheating Scandal, Education News

D.C. Public Schools fired a teacher for a "confirmed testing impropriety" during this spring's round of standardized testing, Chancellor Kaya Henderso...

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Mystery Continues: More Suspicious Letters Containing White Powder Turn Up At D.C. Schools

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 07.06.2011

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WASHINGTON — More than three dozen suspicious but apparently harmless letters addressed to District of Columbia schools appear to have been mail...

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If D.C. Schools Changed Answers, Kids Are Being Cheated

Bill Tucker | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Standardized Testing, Public Education, Cheating, USA Today, Education News, Nclb, Dc Schools, Teachers, Rosby S. Noyes Education Campus, DC School Cheating, Education News
Bill Tucker

If the allegations are true, then the adults who changed students' test answers also cheated those students by allowing them and their families to think that they had learned material they clearly hadn't.

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Mass Teacher Layoffs in D.C. Amount To One Hell of a Power Play by Michelle Rhee

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Dc Rif, Dcps, No Child Left Behind, Teachers Unions, Adrian Fenty, Teach for America, New York City Public Schools, Dc Reduction in Force, Education, Dc Schools, George PArker, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Nclb, High Stakes Testing, Wtu, Politics News
Dan Brown

Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.

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