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Search results for "Secondary Education" ...
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Class of 2011
An examination on Chicago's Marshall High, a school with a history of troubles, found that the school threatened to derail the success of the Chicago Public Schools' $80 million project to overhaul failing schools.
Tags: absentee; school registration; teaching; education; elementary; secondary education;
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An Uneven Hand
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer examined "the 'discipline gap' in the Seattle Public Schools, where African-American students were far more likely than students of other races to be suspended or expelled from secondary school. The problem has existed in Seattle and other urban school districts nationwide for decades, and is typically blamed on socioeconomic problems."
Tags: Seattle Public Schools; discipline gap; African-Americans; students; education; secondary; urban; suspended; expelled
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The College Connection
Education Week reports on how minority students have taken advantage of their high-schools' partnerships with colleges. A two-story package reveals that the ties between colleges and K-12 schools bring positive influence in the lives of students most of whom are at the same time facing family and economic problems. Most students in these high-schools aspire to get college education, after they graduate. The report features two specific examples of such successful partnerships - between Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Ithaca College in upstate New York, and between Syracuse University and High School for Leadership and Public Service in the so-called Spanish Harlem in Manhattan.
Tags: secondary; postsecondary institutions; universities; college-application process; academy; inner-city students; poverty; minorities; low income; teaching; learning
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Scoring Metro Districts: The 2000-01 Detroit News School Report Card
The Detroit News used 12 factors, such as class size and test scores, to rate 88 metro Detroit school districts. The article includes reactions from both A and F school districts and describes the criteria the paper used on the districts. In addition, the Detroit News reports on vocational schools, who say high paying jobs are widely available to students without a college degree due to technology increases. The article also includes a number of technology programs taught in local school districts and describes how students can get hands-on opportunities before they start a post-secondary education.
Tags: education; schools; teachers; class size; college; Department of Career Development; guidance counselors
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Shattering the Myths
With test scores, college grade point averages and college enrollment in remedial courses as the measure, students in the Wichita public schools hold their own with students in suburban districts. Others have too many graduates unprepared for college-level work. The Wichita Eagle spent four months researching and analyzing thousands of bits of information about more than 200 elementary, middle and high schools -- both public and private -- in Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey counties. Eight reporters and two photographers visited dozens of schools and interviewed scores of educators, parents, students and other experts to learn more about school life.
Tags: Education; Secondary Education; Schools; College preparation
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In a six-month, state-by-state investigation, Money attempted to expose the inner working of the $32 billion national lottery industry.. The article revealed that states keep only about 34% of lottery revenues, devoting the rest of their take to prizes and administrative costs. Moreover, the 37 states (plus the District of Columbia) that have lotteries generally use the proceeds to plug budget gaps, not to cut taxes. And in most cases lottery money is not used for education, despite laws to the contrary in 18 states and promises made in dozens of states' lottery advertisements. During the past decade, Money found, lottery states have devoted a slightly declining share of their budgets to schools; in contrast, the proportion of state spending dedicated to primary and secondary education in non-lottery states edged up. (May, 1996)
Tags: Keating Caplin Perry Graham Eisenberg Lotto fever: we all lose Contest entry State government 9 pgs.
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Digging for Dollars
WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge) finds lax control in Louisiana's vocational-technical school system has resulted in individual directors abusing their offices. "The investigation finds one director using school equipment, students and supplies for his personal business use." The story led to his eventual indictment.
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT Board of Education State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education