Posts tagged Education
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To find top DC public schools look beyond demographics, new analysis says
Results on last spring’s tests challenge common notions about demographics and school quality. Keep reading…
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No longer a rookie to extended class time, H.D. Cooke takes on another extended school year
This year, summer break at eleven DC public schools started a month later than the rest of the public schools in the city. Teachers say the extended school year experiment is working, helping students remember what they've learned in the past year and permitting educators to better reflect and plan. Keep reading…
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DC has over 200 public schools named for people. Here’s how they got their names.
Since the first “modern” DC public school was built in 1864, and promptly named for the mayor who built it, the public school and charter school systems have named 255 schools for individual people. Among them are 32 known slave owners, 10 former slaves, 10 abolitionists, 2 people who joined the Confederacy, 17 civil rights leaders, 26 presidents and 32 mayors or other city officials. Keep reading…
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This school year, let’s teach kids to think critically about their city
With the new school year soon to start, it’s a good time to consider how we are or aren’t, teaching our students to think critically about their city. I teach high schoolers in Northern Virginia, and listening to them, I see how they’re primed to think about driving as “normal” and all other transportation choices as undesirable. Keep reading…
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In Petworth, students learn about street design in a “traffic garden”
Students in Petworth are learning about transportation with a “traffic garden,” a miniature city that demonstrates how our streets work. It’s part of a transportation-themed camp that Briya Public Charter School and The Bureau of Good Roads, a company that teaches people about street design, have hosted for the last three summers. Keep reading…
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Charter schools and why they’re so controversial, explained
DC has the fourth-highest charter school enrollment of any city in the country, with 46% of all public school students attending a charter school last school year. So why is the issue of school choice still so divisive? Keep reading…
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After requiring paid family leave for workers, DC could take it away
Last December, the DC Council passed a bill that gives new parents eight weeks of paid time off. Now, some members of the council are working to repeal and replace the bill before it goes into effect. It must be enacted as it was passed—tens of thousands of DC workers and their families are counting on it. Keep reading…
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Here’s what DC’s new education chancellor thinks about his first year on the job
At a recent media roundtable, DCPS chancellor Antwan Wilson answered questions about the LEAP program, claims of high teacher turnover rates, and the new extended school year program. Here's what I gleaned from our conversation. Keep reading…
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Arlington needs a new high school. Where should it go?
Arlington County is looking for a location to build a new public high school, and the search is now down to three sites. But if an effort to grant historic status to a complex of buildings near Washington-Lee High School succeeds, the plans might come off the rails. Keep reading…
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There aren’t any bookstores east of the Anacostia River, and that hurts children
You probably know large swaths of Wards 7 and 8, east of the Anacostia River, are food deserts. Did you know these communities are also book deserts? Although there are numerous cultural and artistic institutions east of the river, the lack of a bookstore impedes the intellectual growth of the community, especially young children and their parents. Keep reading…