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  • Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma - New York Times on 2009-10-28
    • Although affluent suburban schools have been increasing academic rigor in recent
      years, many large urban schools have been organized around the same low academic
      expectations for nearly three decades, experts say.
  • Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma - New York Times on 2009-10-28
    • Parents want the same thing parents in the past wanted,” Professor Roderick
      said. “They want their kids to be middle class. The problem is that the economy
      has changed, so doing better now means going to college. And someone has to help
      them figure out how to do this because the parents don’t know themselves.”
    • Many of the new efforts involve building close relationships with local higher
      education institutions.
  • Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma - New York Times on 2009-10-28

    • Those efforts, and others across the country, reflect a growing sense of
      urgency among educators that the primary goal of many large high schools serving
      low-income and urban populations — to move students toward graduation — is no
      longer enough. Now, educators say, even as they struggle to lift dismal high
      school graduation rates, they must also prepare the students for college, or
      some form of post-secondary school training, with the skills to succeed.

    • What is required, educators say, is nothing less than revolutionizing schools
      built for another century, when a high school diploma was a ticket to social
      mobility in a manufacturing economy, and students with only basic skills could
      make it into the middle class.
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  • Desegregating urban schools on 2009-10-28
    • Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, our urban schools are
      still separate and unequal
    • Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, our urban schools are
      still separate and unequal
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  • San Mateo's Hillsdale High: Why Small Schools Work | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com on 2009-10-05
    • Hillsdale would sacrifice electives like ceramics
  • San Mateo's Hillsdale High: Why Small Schools Work | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com on 2009-10-05
    • Hillsdale core academic teachers also run a daily class where the focus is their
      pupil's academic progress, emotional standing and even social skills. As
      adviser, the teacher is also in charge of liaising with families of their 25
      pupils and helping them plan for college. They serve as a mother hen for two
      years of the teen's school life until the student moves onto a new adviser for
      11th and 12th grade
  • San Mateo's Hillsdale High: Why Small Schools Work | Newsweek Best High Schools | Newsweek.com on 2009-10-05
    • there needs to be an educational movement like a civil-rights movement
    • For the student, that means fewer teachers to interact with, and more time with
      those teachers. On the flipside, the teachers have more time to collaborate with
      each other. They have more time to meet and make much more individualized plans
      that are appropriate for each student. It's not rocket science. Talk to anyone
      about when they learned best, and it's when they knew and trusted the teacher
      and were engaged."
  • States scramble for reform to get stimulus money on 2009-09-18
  • Teaching Pioneer Deborah Meier on Obama's Education Policy and the Future of Charter Schools on 2009-09-17
    • where decisions are made farther and farther away from children, and they’re
      made on the basis of people who don’t know the kids or that school well.
    • what’s interesting to me is the lack of interest in our taking what we’ve
      learned and using it in the ordinary public system, rather than getting into
      this blame teacher, blame union fight and pulling schools out of the public
      sector. And there just isn’t any evidence. None of the studies. Here are these
      people who are big on test score data, but they are only interested in test
      score data when they can use it to attack normal public education, because
      there’s no—there is no consistent evidence that charter schools are getting
      better results, and there’s no consistent evidence that you can turn around
      5,000 schools.
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  • Welcome to Diigo Community | Diigo on 2009-09-09
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