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The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
The New Kids is a narrative nonfiction book chronicling a year in the life at Brooklyn's International High School at Prospect Heights, a vibrant public school that teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees from around the world.
Tags: immigrants; teenagers; Brooklyn; immigration; high school
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Islamophobia
In July 2011, WIRED.com ran a story about anti-Islam instructional material at the FBI from 2009 and earlier based on results of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The FBI told WIRED.com that the material had been removed from the FBI curricula. That statement prompted sources within the FBI with first-hand experience of ongoing anti-Islam teaching material to come forward to WIRED.com.
Tags: Islam; FBI; American Civil Liberties Union; anti-Islam; Islam
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Dance of the Lemons
The story focuses on teachers in the Los Angeles school system that lack the skills or desire to teach their students.
Tags: teacher; unfit teachers; schools; public school; teaching
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First, Do No Harm
This investigation focused on lax supervision of doctors-in-training, patient harm and alleged billing fraud at Dallas' premier medical school complex and its primary teaching hospital, which are financed largely by taxpayers. It also examined more broadly questions about medical training, patient care and healthcare fraud at teaching hospitals around the United States.
Tags: doctor training; patient harm; patient care; Medicare fraud; health care; healthcare; Dallas; medical school; hospital; billing fraud; surgery
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"Friends in Richmond"
In this investigative report, the Virginian-Pilot found several lawmakers who have gotten jobs at the same universities "whose budgets they oversee" resulting in lucrative salaries. Lawmaker Del. Phil Hamilton was hired at ODU after solidifying state funding for a teaching program at the school and was paid $40,000 a year.
Tags: Old Dominion University; Del. Phil Hamilton; Center for Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership; Dave Blackburn; Newport News
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Iron Men of Overtime
“Two sheriff’s deputies nearly tripled their pay through tremendous amounts of overtime, mostly teaching at a community college”. These deputies would work a great deal of overtime hours, over consecutive days and receive a large amount of overtime pay. After all this became visible, the sheriff put an end to overtime pay through the college, but at this point the deputies had already enhanced their annual pay for three years. Further, it increases their pension benefits for decades to come.
Tags: law enforcement; police department; police academy; Michael Asmolik; Richard Flanagan Jr.; Kevin Walsh; income; time sheet
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Failing our Students
The story looked at how kids slip through the public schools without learning literacy. The newspaper found that about 20 percent of their region's freshman can't read higher than a fourth grade level.
Tags: education; illiterate; literacy; teaching; poverty;
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The Experience Factor
The Statesman Journal analyzed multiples sets of data, which showed that low-income students are more likely to be taught by new teachers and those with less experience than students in the district's more affluent schools.
Tags: education; teaching; poverty; first-year teachers;
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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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State Employees Salaries (Balancing Act)
This series analyzes the salaries of Minnesota's state employees and found that in the year before the governor instituted a state hiring freeze, about a third of the state work force earned more than $50 million in overtime pay. A handful of employees earned more in overtime pay than in regular wages. The analysis supported claims by employee unions that understaffing was driving up overtime costs. The series also revealed that faculty at state colleges and universities are earning significant bonuses for teaching online courses beyond their full-time course load. Two St. Cloud State University professors rank among the highest-paid state employees in Minnesota.
Tags: salary records; state government; state officials; hiring freeze; understaffing; wages; overtime costs; employee compensation