Teacher of the year: Let us lead
New Haven’s teacher of the year put on a “phosphorescent” shirt and lit up an Omni Hotel ballroom with a challenge to a school reform crowd: Let teachers…
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Gay rights ‘social justice teach-in’ ‘hit home’ for students
Picture this: You're changing in the locker room. Another student, who is gay, walks into the room. What do you do? That's how the script began in an…
Turnaround school takes history class to the streets
Students led their teachers out of school, onto a city bus, and to a housing complex they call “Skittles,” as they got a start rewriting a local history…
Teens get to assign their own homework
Solanlly Canas had to tackle some tough math problems at home—and she had herself to thank, the New Haven Independent reports.
Union President blasts ‘not credible’ data dump
New Haven's teachers union president Wednesday boycotted the unveiling of new school data that he called a glossing-over of serious problems—and that district officials hailed as a sign…
New school ‘culture’ takes root with college summit curriculum
Cheers arose for a new effort to get high school seniors into college—cheers, though as of yet no hard data to prove it’s working, the New Haven Independent…
How to have more teachers ‘clamoring’ for low-performing schools
As Obama's top school official came to a city turnaround school Tuesday, he popped a question: How do we get more Tamara Raifords "clamoring" to teach in low-performing…
Breakfast in the classroom changing student performance
In the first month of a new experiment inside a Dixwell school, the number of kids eating breakfast shot up by 75 percent—a swift change that officials hope…
Schools find time for art amid test prep, education reform
Arts leaders who fear that testing is squeezing out creative learning may find some hope in an after-school program in the Hill--and the reaction of one 4th-grader who…
School targets achievement gap through methods of Socrates
Should the rich fix failing schools by donating more money? Should moms keep better tabs on their kids? Eighth-graders debated those solutions to the achievement gap—as part of…
Forget flashcards, schools adopt new method of teaching from abroad
When it came time to help her first-graders through a tricky subtraction problem, Rosalie Carr reached for a new arsenal of colored chips, base-10 bars and mighty "number…