Education News For Week Ending July 31, 2010

Education news this week has been breaking at a dizzying pace.  This interview with on Democracy Now with Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at NYU, New York University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Leonie Haimson, a public school parent and executive director of Class Size Matters, is well worth a read.  Here [...]

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NY State ELA and Math Test Scores – What Do They Mean?

The New York State English Language Arts (ELA) and Math test scores for the 2009-2010 school year have been released.  The document is rather larger so here are the relevant sections for the schools in Harlem and Upper Manhattan: District 3 – pgs. 622-639 District 4 – pgs. 640-654 District 5 – pgs. 655-670 District [...]

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