Urban Schools

Fixing American Education Chertok Interview Series: Part 1 -- What's Right With Public Education?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: American Education, High School, Education, Urban Schools, Changing Education, Harry Chertok, Education News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

With computers, the walls of the school and the limits they imposed, no longer existed. Computers are used to find information, track student progress, reinforce the work covered in class, diagnosis weakness in a students' understanding and prescribe an instructional remedy.

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5 Ways Red Tails Can Inspire Deeper Conversations With African-American Youth

Christopher Emdin | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Urban Schools, Education, Red Tails, Tuskegee Airmen, Black Youth, Red Tails Movie, Red Tails Lessons, Education News
Christopher Emdin

Red Tails, with its success at the box office, majority African-American cast and white main funder, invites a powerful conversation that all Americans should be engaged in.

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Coal for Christmas

Jack Jennings | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Urban Schools, Teachers, Center on Education Policy, Education Spending, Class Size, Teacher Layoffs, TUDA, No Child Left Behind, Urban Schools Testing, Urban School Test Scores, Education Funding, Education News
Jack Jennings

With class sizes increasing due to teacher layoffs, and the dismissal of reading specialists, it is not far-fetched to say that learning is being jeopardized by less money being spent on education.

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Extended Time or Quality Time

Randy Miller | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: School Hours, Urban Schools, Education Quality, Education, Longer School Hours, Time in School, Extended School Time, Education News
Randy Miller

Based on what I am experiencing at my school, I can honestly say that our extended time or extended school day isn't working.

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Introducing the New Majority

Teach Plus | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Schools, Teachers, Education Reform, Education, Urban Schools, Baby Boomers, Teaching-Reform, Teacher Careers, Teacher Leadership, Education News
Teach Plus

So what is driving great early-career teachers away? For a large proportion, it is a lack of leadership opportunities.

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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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If I Were a Middle Aged White Man

Louis Peitzman | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Inner City Schools, Gene Marks, White Privilege, Inner City Kids, If I Were a Poor Black Kid, Gene Marks Forbes, Culture News
Louis Peitzman

If I were a middle aged white man, I wouldn't write articles called "If I Were a Poor Black Kid" for Forbes. With a title like that, it wouldn't matter what points I was making.

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5 Reasons Why Students Are Being Arrested in Schools

Christopher Emdin | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Racism, Urban Schools, Students, Crime, Education, Arrested, Education News
Christopher Emdin

Our youth are arrested within urban schools that are physically structured just like prisons. Below are some of the reasons why kids are being arrested, along with some insight about what we can do about it.

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Fostering Collaboration between Schools and Urban Communities

Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: African Americans, School Reform, Community, Urban Schools, Urban Policy, Education Reform, Black Voices News
Matthew Lynch, Ed.D.

The renewal of urban schools and communities are linked, as it is difficult for communities to improve without a decent education system, but it is also difficult for schools to improve without support from an energized, active community.

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Learning From D.C. in Dallas

Richard Whitmire | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Dallas, School Reform, Urban Schools, Education Reform, Education News
Richard Whitmire

For Dallas, moving from basic to intermediate is possible, but not easy. It will only happen with inspired, persistent and consistent leadership ... which isn't easy to find.

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N.C. School District Wins Prestigious Public Education Prize

AP | By MITCH WEISS | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: School Scholarships, Urban Schools, Education, Eli and Edyth Broad Foundation, Urban Education, Charlotte North Carolina, Charlotte Schools, Broad Prize for Urban Education, Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools, North Carolina Schools, College Scholarships, Eli and Edythe Broad, Public Education, Broad Prize, Education News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district has won a prestigious prize in public education, which will provide $550,000...

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How and Why Urban Schools Fail to Engage Parents of Color

Patricia A. Ackerman | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Urban Schools, Urban Parents, Parenting, Parental Involvement, Inner-City Schools, Urban Students, Education News
Patricia A. Ackerman

Changed attitudes, values and behavior are the building blocks of empowerment. So, what needs to happen to fix our schools is not rocket science. Priorities for parent involvement need to be changed and alternative approaches explored.

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Beethoven? That's Easy, He's a Dog

Pamela Kripke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Schools, Middle School, Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Student Achievement, Dallas, Education News
Pamela Kripke

I don't know why these kids lack basic knowledge across all subjects. They haven't seen much outside their own neighborhoods. They don't read or listen much to the news. But they come to class.

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Urban Students Fall Behind National Average On Science Proficiency

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Schools, Standardized Testing, Stem, STEM Education, Science Testing, Science Education, Education News

Public school students in the nation's largest cities, many from low-income households, trail their peers elsewhere in the United States in a test of ...

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Let the Trickery Begin

Patrice Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Schools, School Closings, Public Schools, Teaching, Education News
Patrice Fenton

How can I subversively foster a true educational environment in my classroom that isn't bogged down by lesson plans, curriculum and standardized tests aimed at turning my students into cogs?

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Baltimore Task Force Pushes For $2.8B For Neglected Schools Needing Heat

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baltimore, Baltimore Schools, Urban Schools, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Andres Alonso, Video, Education News

While one school in Baltimore may be debating how to best spend $40M on a beautiful new building, other inner city schools are in desperate need of ba...

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Bridging the Educational Gap

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Latinos, Education, Education Reform, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Standardized Testing, Education-Gap, Politics News
Ray Suarez

I find the answers that have been given concerning the education system are unsatisfactory. The answers just don't match the realities faced by more than 40 million students between kindergarten and the end of high school.

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Education in Chicago: Reason to Cheer: Common Sense About Schools From Thinking Observers

Bill Sweetland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Schools, Arne Duncan, Lincoln Smith, University of Chicago, Helicopter Parents, Remedial Instruction, Two-Year Colleges, Barack Obama, College Admissions, School Reform, Admission Essays, Joseph Bauers, Jim Edgar, Bill Daley, College Essays, Chicago News
Bill Sweetland

Get rid of the college admissions essay. We'll thwart those odious helicopter parents. We know they're helping their pampered offspring cheat their way into Princeton.

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Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Education, High School Dropouts, Drop Out Rate, Urban Schools, New York, Baltimore, Columbus, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Civil Rights Education, Civil Rights, American Education, Chicago, Detroit, Dropout, Education Reform, Education Civil Rights Issue, Education in America, John McCain, Video, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?

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Homeboy Industries -- Hope Has a New Address

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Gang Violence, Gang Prevention, Gangs, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention program in the US and is in the front ranks of diverting young people from the trajectory that leads to marginalized lives, imprisonment and premature death.

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Charter Schools Get the Test Scores Up

Tom Lowry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, Urban Schools, Jeffrey Bewkes, Education, Herb Allen, Charter Schools, Sun Valley, Richard Parsons, Deborah Kenny, Jeff Bewkes, Politics News
Tom Lowry

Unlike most of her audience of media moguls, charter school impresario Deborah Kenny has some positive results to brag about. Test scores have improved dramatically at her schools in just five years.

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