282 Search results for "school policy"

This fall, a Missouri school district will start randomly drug testing students who participate in extracurricular activities. But is this really appropriate? Does it violate student rights?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPhnVaw874 It is always amazing to me when organizations find interventions that can radically change the way young people view their place in the world. As you can see in the video, this is an example of how Chicago Freedom School uses music and chants to build the self-efficacy of young people. There is something […]

Urban schools districts are frequently associated with the idea of failure. These schools, which are nestled in the center of large cities across the United States, are perpetually labeled as unsuccessful institutions. The images of failure take many forms. The most problematic image is when people think of urban schools as places where young students […]

Students at Paul Robeson High School in NYC plan on taking part in Occupy’s May Day activities by staging a massive walkout tomorrow at noon EST. They’re demanding the quality education they deserve. Will you stand with them?

Students at Chicago-based charter school network Noble Street College Prep are charged fines for seemingly minor infractions like using a cell phone or having untied shoelaces. The school say they’ve cut down on larger infractions; critics say it’s inappropriate. What do you think?

Sex education classes now required for city’s public middle and high schools RACHEL MONAHAN and RICH SCHAPIRO, New York Daily News | August 11, 2011 Sex ed classes will be required in all of the city’s public middle and high schools this school year for the first time in almost two decades, officials revealed Tuesday.The new mandate calls […]

Filling In Bubbles:  Test Driven School Reform and Disengaging Working Class Youth Mark Naison (via NewBlackMan) | June 29, 2011 If I was going to figure out a plan to get working class youth to disengage from school, here would be my major components. First, I would make students sit at their desks all day […]

  The social and economic implications of the quality education that children in the United States of America receive ,while not absolute, are critical in determining their future trajectories. The institution that children come into contact with the most in their prepubescent, formative years outside of their communities are schools. From both an operational and […]

For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity” Julianne Hing, Colorlines, November 29, 2010 A new report out from the liberal education policy group EducationTrust says that the arc of the for-profit schools industry, and the disproportionate impact its had on the poor and people of color, mirrors another financial debacle that the country should be in no rush […]

CPS: New admissions policy has little effect on diversity Azam Ahmed, Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2010 An overhaul in the admissions process for selective public schools across the city had little impact on overall diversity, Chicago school officials said this morning. The new process came on the heels of the dismissal of a federal requirement […]

Nailla Robinson, a 5-year-old Philadelphia girl who was abducted from her elementary school has been found alive. But the ease with which she was abducted from her school raises serious concerns about school policy regarding pick-up and drop-off of students. What should be done?

  Students at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill gathered in front of Saunders Hall to call for a renaming of the building. The Rename Saunders campaign which launched on April 9, has an online petition with more than 650 signatures.