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Not Fit to Teach Your Kid
The Daily News finds that New York's lowest-performing schools are staffed by some teachers who have not met state teaching requirements. Looks at specific schools with high numbers of uncertified teachers and areas of the city where uncertified teachers are clustered.
Tags: teachers; uncertified; computer assisted; teacher training; reading scores
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"Everyone Let These Kids Down: The Definitive Story of How Five Children Made It Through Third Grade and Still Can't Read"
This four-part series reveals how the New York City School System fails to sufficiently educate elementary school children to their appropriate level, forcing tens of thousands of children to stay behind due to the advent of standardized testing. A computer-assisted reporting project revealed a correlation between low student testing scores and high percentages of uncertified teachers.
Tags: CAR Queens; Board of Education; Department of Education; PS 40; teacher certification; licensing; academic records; FOI
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Reading, Writing, and Revenue
City Pages reports about New York-based Edison Schools Inc., a for-profit school operator that claimed to do a better job than the government at providing education - and was getting ready for its initial public offering. But City Pages' investigation revealed that "During its inaugural year, Edison's first Minneapolis school offered fewer social services than its mainstream counterparts, struggled to fulfill special-education requirements, and yielded test scores below the district average. More alarming, a whopping 75 percent of the school's teachers had either left or been fired -- and they had a litany of horror stories to tell..."
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Small Expectations
In classrooms where students are often without jackets in the middle of winter, absent from school for long periods of time and have little home support or encouragement, it's no small wonder kids are scoring low on standard tests. The Oklahoman reported on a third grade classroom at Mark Twain Elementary and confirmed the link between poverty and low test scores. Using a linear regression model, it found that reading scorses dropped 1.4 points for each 10 percentage poin increase in poverty.
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Small gains on Stanford 9 scores cut across all levels of language ability
Whether large or small, wealthy or poor, predominantly English-proficient or dominated by students who were not fluent, school districts across California fell into a pattern of slight gains in reading and more robust gains in math on the Stanford 9 standardized tests from 1998 to 1999.
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