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  • Report: City schools' graduation rate below 40 percent ( NYC ) ( Detroit 21.7 percent graduate )

    06/20/2006 8:18:25 PM PDT · by george76 · 79 replies · 1,679+ views
    Associated Press ^ | June 20, 2006 | (AP)
    A new report says the city's high schools graduate just 38.9 percent of their students, but New York officials, who claim the rate is closer to 53 percent, are disputing the methodology behind the lower figure. The study, released Tuesday by Education Week magazine, ranks the graduation rate of the nation's largest school system as the third lowest among the 50 biggest school districts in the country. Detroit fared the worst, with a rate of 21.7 percent, while Fairfax County, Va., was ranked the best, with 82.5 percent of students graduating. City Department of Education officials said Tuesday that the...
  • Black, Hispanic pupils see school as tough

    05/31/2006 8:10:32 AM PDT · by blueminnesota · 80 replies · 1,748+ views
    Yahoo news ^ | May 30, 2006 | BEN FELLER
  • 'Nativity' schools shepherd urban kids

    05/28/2006 9:51:41 AM PDT · by oblomov · 12 replies · 423+ views
    St.Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 5/27/2006 | David Hunn
    A framed college acceptance letter rests against a wall in the makeshift office of a small St. Louis middle school. The letter - from Southeast Missouri State University - means the world to the man at the desk, Loyola Academy President Kevin Lee. It represents the first of the private school's dozens of graduates to get into college. Seven years ago, Loyola Academy opened as an experiment. Now, with three similar schools here, it is part of a national movement helping urban children enter some of the region's selective private high schools, and from there, win admission to college. Loyola...
  • Urban gay youths finding their place (Mega Barf Alert!)

    04/24/2006 3:54:26 PM PDT · by DBeers · 26 replies · 1,438+ views
    Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | April 23, 2006 | Chris Seper
    Urban gay youths finding their place Center helps as more teens come out Johnathan Lamarr Terry Jr. had concealed encounters with boys since the sixth grade. So when he started going to a local youth center that caters to gay boys and girls, the 18-year-old from Cleveland's Hough neighborhood told his tough-guy friends he was looking to beat people up. As he mingled with the people he promised to bash, he started shedding his "boy stuff." Then last summer, as the pressure of lying to his mother started to build, he told everyone he was gay. Some cousins were outraged....
  • Savage Inequalities Why is East St. Louis so terrible?

    10/27/2005 4:42:21 PM PDT · by LauraleeBraswell · 13 replies · 1,054+ views
    We are reading Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities" in my sociology class. I’m smart enough to know the book isn’t objective. And so far, I’ve sought out independent information about him, including that he is big government, but against national testing. And that he is against vouchers. And that he thinks the solution to the problem is more $$$ in the schools. And from reading the book it’s so so clear that he is a race monger. I understand why there is very little work and money in terms of economics but is there anything else? I’m hesitant to blame the...
  • Marva Collins Biography [created successful private school for low income black children]

    10/15/2005 7:58:11 AM PDT · by grundle · 8 replies · 1,508+ views
    http://www.marvacollins.com/biography.html Marva Collins Biography Marva Collins grew up in Atmore, Alabama at a time when segregation was the rule. Black children were not permitted to use the public library, and her schools had few books. Nonetheless, her father, a successful businessman, instilled in her an awareness of the family's historical excellence and helped develop her strong desire for learning, achievement and independence. After graduating from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, she taught school in Alabama for two years. She moved to Chicago and, later taught in Chicago's public school system for fourteen years. Her experiences in that system, coupled with...
  • Schools in Norfolk, Va., Get $500,000 Prize for Student Gains [w/Jeb on the Jury]

    09/21/2005 10:02:48 AM PDT · by summer · 13 replies · 401+ views
    The NY Times - Education ^ | September 21, 2005 | DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - The public schools in Norfolk, Va., which over the last seven years have steadily narrowed a wide gap between white and black students in reading and mathematics scores, have won this year's Broad Prize, a $500,000 award to the urban school district making the greatest strides in student achievement. The prize was announced on Tuesday at a ceremony at the Library of Congress by Eli Broad, the founder of the Broad Foundation, which is dedicated to improving urban school districts across the country. "In our circles this is really the Nobel Prize of education," Stephen C....
  • Some Children Should Be Left Behind [a successful public school for low income minority students]

    09/03/2005 6:33:01 AM PDT · by grundle · 71 replies · 1,492+ views
    nationalreview.com ^ | September 02, 2005 | Catherine Seipp
    http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200509020711.asp September 02, 2005, 7:11 a.m. “Some Children Should Be Left Behind” Effective teaching. Rafe Esquith, who for 20 years has gotten amazing results teaching everything from algebra to Shakespeare to inner-city Los Angeles fifth graders, will make you rethink at least a few prejudices you may have had about education. Or at least, he made me do so. And that’s an achievement in itself. Because he’s a public-school teacher, I assumed he’d complain about underfunding. Nope. “We always had lots of cash; we didn’t always spend it wisely, but the money was there,” he writes in There Are No...
  • Three-week crash course brings new teachers to Pinellas

    08/07/2005 3:18:14 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 35 replies · 1,002+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | August 7, 2005 | DONNA WINCHESTER,
    Judy Clayton's introduction to teaching came Wednesday, her first day back in middle school in nearly 25 years, when she asked her eighth-grade students to share their nicknames. One boy in baggy jeans told her his: Bug Boy. Clayton had been on her feet for more than six hours by then, and had used nearly all of the skills she had learned in a three-week crash course for new teachers. She flashed back to her earlier life, the one she abandoned in the spring when she submitted an online application to the Pinellas County School District for a quick-track teacher...
  • Military Academies: Bringing Values to Urban America

    04/08/2005 10:17:15 AM PDT · by FlyLow · 7 replies · 492+ views
    CNS News ^ | 4-8-05 | Paul M. Weyrich
    Too many American children are being raised by parents who have inherited a 1960s mindset -- the one that jettisoned important qualities such as discipline and faith -- and cast aside important institutions vital to this country's success and security. As a result, the ignorance and even the sins of the parents now are being visited upon children. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study determined that many children are exposed daily to over eight hours of TV, video games, computers and other media. A generation ago many parents set strict limits on TV viewing. Too few do that now. Moreover,...
  • Half of Calif. Blacks and Latinos Drop Out of School, a New Harvard Study Finds

    03/25/2005 5:32:46 PM PST · by paltz · 75 replies · 1,899+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | Thursday, March 24, 2005 | Thursday, March 24, 2005
    /BLOCKQUOTE> "Dropout factories" is how a new Harvard study describes some California schools, finding that dropout rates for Latinos and black students are abysmal. Just 50.2 percent of black boys who entered ninth grade in the Golden State received a diploma four years later. The dropout problem on the whole has been underestimated, says The Civil Rights Project of Harvard University, which called for improvements to dropout rate calculation methods and more accountability over the high number of dropouts. The state has reported a graduation rate of 87 percent. Researchers using a different methodology found an overall graduation rate of...
  • A Harvard study raises 'concerns' about dropouts.

    03/24/2005 7:18:06 AM PST · by thebiggestdog · 1 replies · 262+ views
    www.hotchicken.com ^ | 3-24-05 | www.hotchicken.com
    Our friends at Harvard have done another study, and the results are eye-opening to say the least. In 2002, the researchers found that about 50% of the black and hispanic students that should have graduated high school in California didn't. The LA Times headline was "New Study Raises Concerns About `Dropout Factories'". Concern? How about outrage? For anyone who believes that our government controlled monopoly on education is working need to have their head examined. Public education is a massive failure, and by denying the failure, we are dooming our children to poverty, substance abuse and early parenthood. To make...
  • (British)Race expert wants black-only classes

    03/07/2005 6:59:01 PM PST · by The Loan Arranger · 7 replies · 426+ views
    Agence France-Presse and News.com/au ^ | March 08, 2005 | From correspondents in London
    THE British government should consider educating black boys in separate classes from their white peers in order to help them perform better, the head of a race relations watchdog has said. Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, also told the BBC it might make sense to deny black fathers access to their sons if they refused to attend school parents' evenings. Mr Phillips told the Inside Out program that many black boys were held back by a culture where being clever was frowned upon and that they lacked self-esteem and good role models. "If the only way...
  • First Lady Promotes 'Helping America's Youth'

    02/11/2005 5:18:13 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 5 replies · 421+ views
    GOPUSA ^ | February 11, 2005 | Talon News
    (Talon News) -- First Lady Laura Bush traveled to Detroit Thursday to visit a community center in a low income area of the city and talk about new proposals to help at-risk youth escape involvement with gangs. Saying that all children need adults who care and who will listen, the first lady stressed, "Children with mentors are less likely to begin using drugs or engage in alcohol or violence, and they're more likely to go to class and stay in school." In his State of the Union address last month, President George W. Bush announced a new initiative to encourage...
  • High Schools Producing the Most Dropouts Identified

    06/24/2004 7:13:10 PM PDT · by seastay · 45 replies · 569+ views
    Newswise ^ | Released: Thu 24-Jun-2004 | Johns Hopkins University
    Graduation is hardly a given for freshmen in 2,000 of America's public high schools, according to a new study by researchers at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at The Johns Hopkins University. Using data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics, researchers Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters measured the "promoting power" of 10,000 regular and vocational high schools that enroll more than 300 students. They compared the number of freshmen in each school to the number of seniors there four years later. The results gathered in their report, "Locating the Dropout Crisis," are troubling. They indicate that...
  • Failing schools underreported

    01/13/2004 11:25:36 PM PST · by kattracks · 8 replies · 186+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 1/14/04 | George Archibald
    <p>Many states and local school districts are underreporting the number of schools failing to teach children to read and do mathematics at their grade level as required by the 2-year-old No Child Left Behind Act, fearful of ultimately losing control over poorly performing schools.</p>
  • Low Scores (Low Scores at African American Schools)

    12/31/2003 6:06:59 AM PST · by chance33_98 · 24 replies · 250+ views
    Low Scores December 3, 2003 Reported by Pam Dixon & Erica Young Leaders in the African American community will hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon focusing on low performance schools in Calcasieu. The Louisiana Department of Education recently released a report, which shows the lowest-performing schools in the parish are those with predominantly minority populations. Southwest Louisiana schools are doing well overall when it comes to improving school performance scores. But according to the fall 2003 accountability results recently released, most of the schools with the lowest scores in Calcasieu Parish are schools with predominantly minority populations. African American...
  • Diverse Schools More Likely to Be Labeled as Failing, Study Says

    12/25/2003 9:00:54 AM PST · by neverdem · 26 replies · 265+ views
    NY Times ^ | December 25, 2003 | SAM DILLON
    Public schools with diverse student populations are far more likely than those with homogeneous populations to be labeled as failing under President Bush's education law, according to a new California study. The study examined why 3,000 of the 7,669 public schools in California were designated as "needing improvement" under the terms of the federal law, a category that obligates districts to provide transportation for students wishing to transfer to other schools and brings other sanctions in subsequent years. The study found that many of the 3,000 schools were designated not because tests had shown their overall achievement levels to be...
  • Ohio: Black kids still struggle

    12/10/2003 6:34:41 AM PST · by yankeedame · 52 replies · 591+ views
    The Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 | Dan Horn
    Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Black Ohio kids still struggle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Report finds health, education, opportunity deficits By Dan Horn The Cincinnati Enquirer African-American children in Ohio are doing better than they were 10 years ago, but they still suffer from more health problems, and have fewer economic opportunities and lower academic achievement than other children. That's the conclusion of a new Children's Defense Fund report that measures things from infant mortality rates to proficiency test scores. The report, to be released today, found that black children in Cincinnati and the state's other big cities showed improvement but fared worse overall...
  • Tucson Citizen: Should AZ schools teach life skills to build kids' resilience?

    12/01/2003 10:49:29 AM PST · by hsmomx3 · 3 replies · 368+ views
    PhxNews ^ | FIMBRES, CHESNICK, & GARGASZ of Tucson Citizen
    Tucson LINKS encourages students to get involved in after-school activities. Here, Eli Medvescek, 10, and teacher Laurie Burrell work on a project in Lulu Walker Elementary School's science club. The school found such programs cut problem behaviors. They can be saved, these children who come from homes of addiction and chaos. Schools are helping children to rise above the disarray in their lives, with some of the most basic tasks of parenting falling to teachers. "Kids used to come with life skills, with empathy, with understanding. We have many more kids arriving at the school doors who have not learned...