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George Joseph / October 16, 2012 6:33 pm
...ndard benefits. On the table is everything from regular controversies, like healthcare and pensions, to absurd side issues like sexual harassment arbitration and maternity leave. Given these uncertainties, a group of about 15 students from Students Support Barnard Workers dressed in black and joined the Founders’ Day celebrations at Barnard College to give out information on the crisis. Organizers felt Founders’ Day was the perfect venue for rais...
Maria Insalaco / April 2, 2008 2:58 am
...approach to area studies. Moreover, as the revised Hispanic studies program makes clear, this method of study is increasingly infringing upon the territory of the old area studies programs and reconstructing the way in which students learn and interpret different cultures. New cultural studies programs broaden the academic focus of more traditional programs by incorporating history, economics, politics, literature, philosophy, visual arts, popul...
CPR / March 16, 2012 7:03 pm
...ing represents a welcome emphasis on the mission of transforming underperforming schools. The constant repetition of the achievement gap frame does have the inescapable consequence of shifting our focus onto poor and minority students. While those who talk about the achievement gap do not intend to lay blame on disadvantaged communities and students, the frame has potentially negative consequences – not only does it distract from national educati...
Benji de la Piedra / November 19, 2012 12:29 am
...that the City’s DOE and UFT will eventually have to compromise on teacher evaluations, if only for the sake of a new contract. We think they might as well do it before $300 million are taken off the table, for the sake of the students. Join the Students for Education Reform on Thursday November 29 at 6:00pm, as we march downtown from the NYC UFT building to the steps of the NYC DOE building, demanding that a deal be reached. We are not taking sid...
CPR / November 20, 2012 3:01 pm
The pro-Palestinian side on Low Steps pro-Israel students on the Sundial Columbians from Students for Justice in Palestine and LionPAC organized competing demonstrations Tuesday afternoon in support of the warring sides in the continuing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. SJP, who was also on the Steps yesterday protesting Israel’s airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, held signs in both Arabic and English with Pro-Palestinian slogans. A...
Yoni Golijov / November 5, 2012 11:10 pm
...blic schools may also play a role in ushering in criminal cases. Although the term “school-to-prison pipeline” is relatively new, Jazz argues that what we see today is an escalation of the longstanding criminalization of poor students of color. As Jazz points out, in New York City schools where poor Black and Latino youth make up a large majority of students, school officials do not even have to call in police – they’re already there. Over 5,000...
Yoni Golijov / September 29, 2012 4:20 pm
...tter family leaves, more flex time at work and co-parenting at home. These are important goals.” Yet she is in charge of demanding huge cuts to maternity leave and flex time. And despite all of Rahm Emmanuel’s talk of putting students first, it’s obvious from his actions that he puts himself and his elite friends first. Rahm sends his children to The Lab School, where the director opposes standardized testing (which Rahm wants more of for working...
CPR / March 16, 2012 6:40 pm
PRO: By Leah Metcalf Everyone intuitively knows that having a good or bad teacher is the dierence between longtime learning and just dropping in. According to Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, the amount teachers can teach students ranges from 0.5 to 1.5 years of material, depending on the skill of the instructor. How does the United States make sure that only high quality teachers are teaching its students? The b...
Bryan Schonfeld / March 27, 2013 1:13 am
...by Protestant churches with some public funding, and voluntary grammar schools. Lastly, integrated schools are partially owned by trustees, while receiving funds from the Department of Education. 51 percent of Northern Irish students are Catholic, usually attending the “maintained” Roman Catholic schools. Protestant children overwhelmingly attend the “controlled” schools. This religious segregation costs the state millions of pounds more than an...
Andrew Tan / November 20, 2012 8:12 pm
...ington D.C, echoes this view: “The problem that we face in public education today is that essentially tenure for teachers means that you have a job for life regardless of performance. And that is an adults first policy, not a students first policy.” On the left, there are calls for more investments in education – hiring more and better teachers, increasing funding for academic programs, and providing more wraparound services like student lu...
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