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Grounded By My Kid

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Iran, Marriage, Education, Parenting Tips, Kids, Children, Public School, Multicultural, Food, Parenting, Teachers, Coffee, America, Family, Coffee Addiction, Living News
Charlotte Safavi

How can I teach my son self-control if I do not have any? Mom and Dad are mostly right, but when they are not, should there not be consequences?

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Dropout Prevention Should Be Top of the Class

Gordon Campbell | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Education, Poverty, Dropout Prevention, Public School, United Way, High School, United Way of NYC, Education Reform, Public Education, New York News
Gordon Campbell

What would be the impact if we succeeded in lowering the dropout rate? How much better off will we all be if we succeed in our dropout prevention efforts?

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Dollars for Grades: A Feasible Solution to Our Broken Public School System?

Halle Tecco | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Incentives, Education, Education Reform, Monetary Incentives for Grades, Paying Students for Good Grades, Public Education, Public School, Living News
Halle Tecco

If we don't embrace creative and progressive thought in improving our school systems, we're going to fail all of our children.

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A Surge in Homeless Children Tests School Aid Programs

New York Times | ERIK ECKHOLM | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Homeless Students, Homelessness, Education, Public School, Homeless Children, Foreclosure, Forclosures and Families, Foreclosures and Children, Economy, Living News

The rise, to more than one million students without stable housing by last spring, has tested budget-battered school districts as they try to carry ou...

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Catholic Schools Outperform Public Schools In Reading, Math

New York Post | YOAV GONEN | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Archdiocese, Catholic School Pulblic School, Catholic School Test Score, Cathoic School, New York, Public School Test Score, Public School, New York News

Despite the drop in enrollment at New York's catholic schools, their test scores outperform those of public schools in both reading and math....

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It's June: Do You Know Where Your Kid Is? Going to School, I Mean?

Donna Fish | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Public School, Mayor Bloomberg, Subways, New York City, New York News
Donna Fish

I have been thinking about what things are particular to living in NYC. We deal with higher taxes, people in our face, and a particularly byzantine, complicated process to send our kids to school.

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"Teachers Don't Like Boys, Mom"

Holly Robinson | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Girls, Education, Adhd, Classrooms, Public School, Boys, Teachers, School, Mcas, Living News
Holly Robinson

Research tells us what most parents know: boys are apt to be "kinesthetic learners." That's educatorspeak for the fact that most boys learn best while they're in motion.

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Dear Class of 2009, Congratulations, Now Please Leave

Dennis Danziger | Posted 07.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Graduation, High School, Class of 2009, Public School, Living News
Dennis Danziger

Because you've successfully maneuvered your way through this institutional maze, you have learned to accomplish your goals, keeping intact your sanity and wit, and I hope, your feelings of self-worth.

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The Day My Union Died

Dennis Danziger | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Schwarzenegger, High School Dropouts, Stimulus Funds, California Proposition !A, Superintendent Ramon Cortines, United Teachers of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teacher Strikes, Public School, Real Estate, Politics News
Dennis Danziger

Our strike wasn't about us teachers asking for better health care or more money, we were going to protest Cortine's decision to hold back funds allotted for education.

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Judges Gone Wild

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Ginsburg, Public School, Strip-Search, Savana Redding, Zero Tolerance Policy, Safford School District vs Redding, Middle School, War on Drugs, Pranks, Politics News
Dennis Danziger

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing school administrators to order students to take it all off, there may be some uncomfortable moments in tough inner city schools like the one where I teach.

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That Student-Teacher Thing

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Student-Teacher Relationship, Elementary School, Goodbye Columbus, Bernard Malamud, Test Scores, Education, Merit Pay, Public School, High School, Middle School, I.B. Singer, Teachers, Catcher in the Rye, Philip Roth, Living News
Dennis Danziger

What I remember most about Ms. Fitzgerald's class is that when I wasn't staring at the clock, I was deciding which of my body parts to rip off and hand her in protest.

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Arne Duncan -- Get in the Game

Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hoops, Australia, Scholar-Athlete, R Kelly, Chicago Public Schools, Secretary of Education, Nba, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Public School, Ncaa, Academic All-American, Obama Administration, Basketball, Harvard U., Capital City Public Charter School, Bill Bradley, U.S. Senate, Lebron, Afghanistan, Politics News
Dennis Danziger

Duncan has the right stuff to make huge and positive changes in the lives of our public school children. He did it in Chicago and I want him to repeat those successes across our nation.

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ACORN: They Took Our Nuts!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Acorn, Public School, George W. Bush, Community Organizing, Mccain, Housing Crisis, Private School, 2008 Election, Civil Rights, Bush, Voter Registration Fraud, Acorn Scandal, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

No wonder the GOP is desperately trying to neuter ACORN before the group manages to mobilize some seriously pissed-off poor people.

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