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Teaching Montessori: Blacks Less Likely to Take A.P. Exam
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Thursday, February 05, 2009. Blacks Less Likely to Take A.P. Exam. More than 15 percent of the three million students who graduated from public high schools last year passed at least one Advanced Placement exam. Said Wednesday, but African-American students were still far less likely to have passed, or to even have taken, an A.P. exam than white, Hispanic or Asian students. The AP. pr...
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Teaching Montessori: WHICH THIRD?
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Friday, April 03, 2009. THIS COMMENT WAS LEFT IN RESPONSE TO THE LAST POST. As a teacher who is attempting literature circles, I have many thoughts going through my mind. While the literature circles are reaching the lower level kids (sometimes! Posted by W Brown. Quick and random thoughts. In the classroom. And to be reflective about it is also a credit to you as a teacher. Nothing is pe...
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Teaching Montessori: October 2008
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Thursday, October 30, 2008. Fewer Children Entering Gifted Programs. The number of children entering New York City public school gifted programs dropped by half this year from last under a new policy intended to equalize access, with 28 schools lacking enough students to open planned gifted classes, and 13 others proceeding with fewer than a dozen children. Parents, teachers and principal...
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Teaching Montessori: MIXED GRADE ADVISORIES
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Tuesday, April 07, 2009. While searching for our next advisory project I came across the following article written by a student from another High School. MADDY KIEFER ‘08. Posted by W Brown. As for curriculum, college prep should start in 9th grade and go through 12th, as should study skills, social skills, etc. Don't laugh at me, Brown, you know I can't figure out how to divide. At our s...
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Teaching Montessori: THANKSGIVING
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Monday, November 23, 2009. What am I thankful for? Wally is healthy happy and 7 , Victor is happy hungry and 5. The garbage is literally pilling up in the third floor common area. But a garbage can there would solve the problem. Has become a symbol of what the school used to do right …. We need one. It empowers teachers with information. I can’t wait. Posted by W Brown. I am grateful for ...
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Teaching Montessori: September 2008
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Friday, September 26, 2008. By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ. Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard economist, has often complained that while pharmaceutical companies have poured billions of dollars each year into studying new drugs and Boeing devoted $3 billion to develop the 777 jet, there has been little spent on efforts to scientifically test educational theories. Now Dr. Fryer. 8220;If the doctor sa...
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Teaching Montessori: November 2009
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Monday, November 23, 2009. What am I thankful for? Wally is healthy happy and 7 , Victor is happy hungry and 5. The garbage is literally pilling up in the third floor common area. But a garbage can there would solve the problem. Has become a symbol of what the school used to do right …. We need one. It empowers teachers with information. I can’t wait. Posted by W Brown. Links to this post.
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Teaching Montessori: an interesting number
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Monday, February 23, 2009. But while state legislatures for decades have passed laws — and provided millions of dollars — to cap the size of classes, some academic researchers and education leaders say that small reductions in the number of students in a room often have little effect on their performance. And Chancellor Joel I. Klein. 8220;If you’re going to spend an extra dollar, p...
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Teaching Montessori: February 2009
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A Brief Blog about the day to day educational issues between three Small Learning Communities in one NYC High School. Monday, February 23, 2009. But while state legislatures for decades have passed laws — and provided millions of dollars — to cap the size of classes, some academic researchers and education leaders say that small reductions in the number of students in a room often have little effect on their performance. And Chancellor Joel I. Klein. 8220;If you’re going to spend an extra dollar, p...
