Showing posts with label Kindergarten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindergarten. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2012

Class sizes in early grades now largest in 14 years

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U PDATE: Please check out your school's class size data here and let me know at leonie at classsizematters.org if it is inaccurate;...
Monday, April 9, 2012

The testing obsession, and how it is destroying my Kindergarten child

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This parent prefers to remain anonymous.  But so many of us parents share her concerns about how the DOE’s obsession with testing threate...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Kindergarten cut-off dates and lifelong success

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See this NY Times article which talks about how the increased academic pressure on Kindergarten students is leading many states to move th...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Kindergarten wait list crisis: pictures are louder than words

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Is this really pocket overcrowding, as the DOE still maintains?  With waiting lists at more than one fourth of the city's elementary s...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

No Busing for Overflow Kindergarteners in Queens

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See email exchange between Marge Kolb, head of the Presidents council in D24 in Queens, and Kathleen Grimm of DOE below. To this day, DOE ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Denying NYC parents the most basic choice of all

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The Carl Icahn charter school in the Bronx is the most popular school in the city – according to the Daily News , with only 3% of applica...
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