Standardized Testing – Surprising Case Study
Jamaal Bowman is a middle school principle in the Bronx’s district 11 with a 99% black and Hispanic population and students who are academically struggling. While they outperform the district as a whole on standardized testing, they underperform relative to city averages with only 23% on grade level for English and 25% for Math. He’s […]
Teach for America Layoffs
Teach for America is laying off 15% of their staff, following cuts last year as well. They are spinning this as shifting from a centralized model to a more regional model, but that’s just “PR nonsense.” The core reason is simply that their recruitment looks down for a third straight year and their fundraising is […]
Westchester School Counselor Certification
Alfred University and CITE are proud to expand our School Counselor Certification Program to Westchester. Designed for NYS Certification in School Counseling 1/3 the cost of similar programs –$1095 for 3 credits! Weekend courses 22 months, 48 credits in Downtown Brooklyn, Oceanside, and now Westchester. Cohort Program – perfect for networking during and after your program. […]
School Crowding
Here’s a link to a WNYC article about school crowding and new construction. http://www.wnyc.org/story/city-budget-beefs-up-school-construction-doesnt-ease-overcrowding/ Basically, the city has changed how it calculates the amount of seats available, so that it now needs to build 83,000 new seats, rather than the 33,000 it had previously stated it needed. That’s going to cost 5.4 Billion dollars over […]
NYC Teacher Shortage Looms
The media is starting to understand that there will be a teacher shortage, given how the current group of teachers skews older, enrollments in teacher training programs are declining precipitously, and people interested in teaching are turned off by the extent of testing. This article from Politico NY posits that it’s time to take a look […]
Are Introverted Teachers Burning Out?
The Atlantic published an a story about introverted teachers burning out. The premise of the story is that introverted teachers are burning out because the rise of collaborative teaching approaches such as professional learning communities means more meetings. The story is long on anecdote and short on even any good correlation. There’s a lot of […]
Closing Schools Do Not Lead to Improved Student Performance
New York, NY – Council of School Supervisors & Administrators President Ernest Logan issued comments on the release of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools report, “High School Closures in New York City:””CSA takes the Research Alliance study at its word that it “cannot identify the precise mechanisms that explain closures impact or […]
Education News 10-29-15
Education News Update – October 29, 2015 By Danielle Bonnici So, About Those Tests…. The Washington Post reports that for the first time since the federal government began mathematics exams in 1990, test scores have declined. Reading scores were also worrisome — scores either dropped dramatically, or remained the same. Achievement Gap The tests once again […]
