High Need Schools
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Professional Development
Opinion
Response: Building 'Political Will' to Retain Teachers in High-Need Schools
Barnett Berry and Ilana Garon share their thoughts on how to retain teachers in high-poverty schools.
Professional Development
Opinion
Response: Ways To Reduce Teacher Attrition In High Poverty Schools
Angel Cintron and Paul Bruno share ideas on how schools can reduce teacher attrition in high-poverty schools.
Education
Opinion
Why Do Teachers Leave High-Poverty Urban Schools?
The new "question-of-the-week" is:
Why do teachers avoid, or leave, high poverty urban public schools and what can be done to improve the situation?
Teaching
Opinion
Deeper Learning in High Need Schools
It is easy for schools that serve high-challenge communities to be preoccupied with remediation. With the growth of double-blocked core subjects and managed instruction programs, one can assume that engaging projects and what might be called enrichment activities only happen in independent or suburban schools
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
Florida School Closures: Why Are High Poverty Schools Under the Gun?
Some parents at the school, such as Mike Nunez, ask the poignant question, "Does it really all come down to money, class, and/or race?" Nunez notes South Lake Elementary has one of the highest poverty and minority rates of all the nearly 100 schools in the district. He stated that in the history of Brevard County, six schools in the North Area have been closed, with each of them lying in economically depressed areas (never in any areas considered to be "Affluent" neighborhoods). Additionally, Nunez suggests that no written criteria for how schools were chosen for possible closures have been found.
Federal
House Offers 'Fresh' Take on Produce Program for Poor Schools
Schools participating in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program should be able to serve frozen, dried, and canned items, a House committee says, although the program was created to introduce poor children to fresh produce they are unlikely to eat at home.
Education Funding
Report Roundup
Poor Schools Found to Get Shortchanged
Many schools serving high concentrations of low-income students aren't getting their fair share of public funds.
Federal
Poor Schools Shortchanged on Funding, Ed. Dept. Says
Nearly half of all high-poverty schools, including schools that get Title I money, fell at least 10 percent short on state and local aid compared with the average school in their district, a study of 13,000 districts found.
Education
Bill Offers More Federal Aid to Poor, Rural Schools
Lawmakers introduce All Children Are Equal Act, which would change the Title 1 funding formula to benefit poor, rural schools.
School & District Management
Opinion
Is it Really All in the Numbers?
Some stakeholders believe they have found the formula for success and happiness, Does Algebra II have all the answers?
School & District Management
Opinion
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Remember when they served lunch at school and dinner on airplanes? While airlines have dropped food service, D.C. schools have expanded to three meals a day.
Education
Opinion
Rich Schools/Poor Schools: The Gap Grows
Do public schools in poor neighborhoods get shortchanged while schools in wealthy communities are protected from the ravages of the cuts? It sure looks that way...
Equity & Diversity
Out-of-Field Teaching More Common in Poor Schools
Children in high-poverty schools are about twice as likely to have teachers without standard qualifications, a study finds.
