"What is it about the Harlem Children’s Zone that causes pundits and reporters to suspend disbelief?"
- Aaron Pallas in GothamSchools
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"What is it about the Harlem Children’s Zone that causes pundits and reporters to suspend disbelief?"
- Aaron Pallas in GothamSchools
[...]The College News Network isn’t much: a bare-bones Web site, expenses totaling $17, and a single advertisement that covered every penny.
But the Ohio University undergraduates who founded the college-journalism content-sharing cooperative hope the new wire-service-style Web site can help fill a hole in the student press.
The [...]
Last night 60 Minutes opened with an Anderson Cooper piece on the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), exploring its methods, explaining that President Obama wants to replicate it in cities all across the country, re-visiting the children Ed Bradley met there in 2005, and touting HCZ’s remarkable results found [...]
Given the latest discussion of the coverage of education and the press, Linda Perlstein’s hyperlink to Nick Lemann’s account of the passage of NCLB couldn’t be timelier. But first we should recall Lemann’s greatest scoop, an interview with Karl Rove on "the death of" [...]
CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, and other school organizations across the country. One of the discussion activities that we’ve [...]
When your government-funded program is on the chopping block, a rather damning Inspector General audit will do little to bolster your case for continued funding.
Such is the case for the Center for Civic Education and its two grant programs, We the People and the Cooperative [...]
So after my last post, I thought we might need to lighten the mood a bit, yes? A key panel on Tuesday rejected a 1 percent tax on tuition proposed by Pittsburgh's mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, but he is vowing to push ahead on the idea, and Tuesday's decision does not block him from doing so, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority unanimously rejected the [...]
THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER: In Pasco, even the affluent schools see spikes in the numbers of students qualifying for free and reduced price meals.
CONTAMINATED: Two Hillsborough schools have elevated arsenic and mercury levels in their soil.
Kentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday was supposed to be on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 the other night.Anderson Cooper [...]
