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Dec
12

As family homelessness climbs, calls grow louder for solving school attendance woes

Nine-year-old Ameerah remembers when her commute to school was a five-minute walk. That was before her family left their Queens home for a shelter in another part of the borough. During the year they lived in the shelter, Ameerah was at the bus stop with her mom and sister at 6:30 a.m., commuting at least […]

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Dec
12

How one Chicago school social worker is grappling with COVID’s toll on students

Inside a staff bathroom at Piccolo Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side, Mary Difino wiped away tears and tried to catch her breath. It had been a long day in another stressful week. A spate of fights and a string of cyberbullying incidents among students two months into the school year had taken a toll […]

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Dec
12

A unique Philadelphia school cultivates family members as staffers

Kimberly Singleton was the parent of a student at Overbrook Educational Center in West Philadelphia when she lost her job at a billing company. Already an active volunteer at the school, she jumped at the chance when she saw an ad in the school newsletter for a classroom assistant. Singleton got the job in February […]

By John Russo | Blog . news
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Dec
12

Pandemic learning loss has affected students. Should we push to lower standards?

The opposite should happen. Expose students to grade-level material. Create opportunities for expanded learning using online resources. Seek funding for additional support. There’s been a significant gap in learning caused by the pandemic and my high school math students are discouraged when our class-level standards are over their heads or out of reach. I read […]

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Dec
12

New School teachers’ strike ends as NYC university agrees to first pay raises in 4 years

The New School reached a tentative contract agreement with its part-time faculty this weekend, ending a strike that lasted nearly a month. A joint statement released by the faculty’s union, ACT-United Auto Workers Local 7902, and the New School on Saturday said two highlights of the five-year deal are pay raises and boosts to health […]

By John Russo | Blog . news
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Dec
12

4 Ways to Increase Teacher Retention

These days it’s getting harder for administrators to retain staff, but there are ways to boost teacher morale and turn things around. Why have so many teachers either failed to return to work, resigned, or chosen not to enter the field since the pandemic? What’s made the profession become less attractive, and what can we […]

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Jul
25

New York City to Pay $1.8 Billion to Former Teachers as Students Continue to Struggle

Thousands of former Black and Latino teachers in New York City stand to collect an astonishing $1.8 billion in damages after the city stopped fighting a decades-long discrimination lawsuit which alleged that a licensing test that teachers were formerly required to pass was biased. But while the evidence of such discrimination remains dubious, students in […]

By John Russo | Blog
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Apr
19

NYC schools have spent just half of this year’s COVID relief, report says

From Chalkbeat: Last spring, New York City schools celebrated its receipt of $7 billion in federal stimulus dollars as the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio planned how it would reopen buildings following two school years disrupted by the pandemic. But as of the first week of March, the education department had spent just […]

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