Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 8:00 a.m. ET April 18, 2018 Students at thousands of schools across the nation are planning to stage walkouts Friday to mark the 19th year since the Columbine High School massacre, an attack that marked a new era of gun violence. More than 2,300 events are planned for the National School Walkout,…
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Parents flood Baltimore school board meeting to protest freezing classrooms
CASEY QUINLANJAN 9, 2018, 8:07 PM The Baltimore City Public Schools Board Meeting on Tuesday was packed with people who wanted to voice their concerns about the frigid classroom temperatures many students were forced to endure last week, along with a host of other complaints about the condition of their schools. Community advocates and activists encouraged…
3 HUNTSVILLE SCHOOLS ‘FAILING’ ACCORDING TO THE ALABAMA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Posted: Jan. 24, 2018 6:44 PM Updated: Jan. 24, 2018 10:39 PM Posted By: Travis Leder Three Huntsville schools are listed as “failing” in the 2018 Alabama Accountability Act list. The Alabama Accountability Act deems schools in the lowest six percent as “failing” based on reading and math scores. The only three Tennessee Valley schools…
Consistently failing schools are in danger of closing
Megan Cruz ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Updated: 7:31 PM MST Dec 5, 2017 The New Mexico Public Education Department said four consistently failing schools could close by the end of next year. The schools are Dulce Elementary School, in Dulce, and Los Padillas, Hawthorne and Whittier elementary schools, all in Albuquerque. The Public Education Department said…
Closing Low-Performing Schools is a Failing Reform Strategy
May 18th, 2017 Boulder, Colo. – Federal and state school accountability policies have used standardized test results to shine a spotlight on low-performing schools. A remedy offered to “turn around” low-performance in school districts is the option to close the doors of the low-performing schools and send students elsewhere. School Closure as a Strategy to…
Should Failing Schools Be Closed?
If a company can’t make profit or manage its business correctly, the company inevitably fails and a better one takes its place. When public schools fail, they rarely “go out of business,” but instead go through a process of remediation and restructuring. There has been no evidence to show that restructuring procedures lead to significantly…
As Tests Begin, Chancellor Comes Out Against ‘Opt Out’
The new chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, has called sitting out the state math and reading tests an “extreme reaction.” CreditRichard Drew/Associated Press By ELIZABETH A. HARRISAPRIL 10, 2018 New York City’s school chancellor Richard A. Carranza will be the first to tell you that he has a lot to learn. Since taking over at the education department…
Computer problems ‘frustrating’ students taking English tests across New York
Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau ChiefPublished 1:41 p.m. ET April 11, 2018 ALBANY — Some students taking multiple-choice exams on computers had all the possible answers show up as “system error.” Other schools couldn’t log into the exams at all Wednesday morning, while others reported having students’ work lost when the system crashed. The state Education…
In California, national test scores show enduring achievement gaps
By JOY RESMOVITS APR 09, 2018 | 9:00 PM Every two years, the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders are tested in math and reading — and newly released results from last year’s tests give California at least a little reason to be pleased. The 2017 results — out Monday night — were mostly flat nationwide, though the average…
Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam
By Tawnell D. Hobbs Updated April 9, 2018 11:26 p.m. ET American students had nearly flat results in math and reading on a national exam, continuing a pattern of stagnation over most of the past decade, as some of the lowest performers fell further behind. Eighth-graders made the only statistically significant gain—1 point—in reading, for…
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