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Showing posts with label credit recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit recovery. Show all posts
Saturday, April 23, 2011

New DOE Program to Boost Grad Rates: Tweeting for Credit Recovery

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There has been a lot of criticism over the credit recovery program where high school students short on credits to graduate can spend a littl...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

"If the new standards had been in place for the class of 2009, the city’s graduation rate would have been roughly 45%, instead of the nearly 60...

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Jenny Medina has a pretty good piece in today's Times. Titled "New Diploma Standard in New York Becomes a Multiple-Question Choice&...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Lehman HS, School for Scandal

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We've been hearing stories since last year out of the Lehman HS in the Bronx, one of the few large schools remaining, about how the new ...
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

The drop in SAT scores makes perfect sense...

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.....if you give credence to the widespread anecdotal rumors that bogus "credit recovery" scams are in full force and/or that scho...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Seung and Steve Slap Goliath David (Cantor)

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People on the NYCEd News listserve actually get hot when DOE press chief David Cantor decides to respond to a posting,which is what he did o...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Seung Sings

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As we reported , DOE PR chief David Cantor's accusing the people wanting to celebrate the expiration of mayoral control of "tribal...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Not Worth the Paper . . .

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Jamaica HS teacher Mark Epstein tackles credit recovery and the drive by diploma mills. New York’s public schools have replaced social promo...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Credit Recovery and Drive-By Diplomas in NYC

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Teachers have been screaming about credit recovery and the drive-by diplomas that result as a cheap BloomKlein tactic to pump grad rates. Se...