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In the News: CPS sends selective enrollment letters
By: Cassandra West / February 28, 2012
CPS acceptance letters for selective enrollment high schools were sent out Monday morning. (Tribune)
State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch recognized Harvard Elementary in Chicago Public Schools District 299 Monday for being named to the 2011 Illinois Honor Roll. Harvard Elementary is among 94 schools in CPS named to the 2011 Illinois Honor Roll. (Press release)
94 CPS schools are on the 2011 Illinois Honor Roll. (Sun-Times)
Education blogger Fred Klonsky calls for the firing of Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS) will sponsor its 7th annual Teacher Job Fair in Chicago on March 10. The statewide job fair is intended to link teachers with charter public schools. The event is free but registration is required at www.incschools.org by March 8.
IN THE NATION
When recess facilitators have encouraged city students to jump rope or play tag during recess, girls were more likely to get moving and boys were less likely to get into fights, according to the a study released this week. (Gotham Schools)
As New York City parents and teachers struggled Monday with what to make of rankings of schoolteachers based on test scores, education officials considered making future releases illegal to protect the fragile truce on a new statewide system. (Wall Street Journal)
A set of draft federal regulations under discussion this week proposes requiring states to classify their teacher-preparation programs into four categories, from low- to high-performing, based in part on outcomes indicators such as surveys of graduates and school districts; teacher placement and retention rates; and student-achievement results. (Education Week)
Louisiana state education board approves using public money to pay for private school vouchers. (Times-Picayune)
The New York Times looks at what it's like to be a black student at New York City's Stuyvesant High School through the experience of Rudi-Ann Miller, one of 40 black students among the 3,295 students at Stuyvesant, long considered the city's flagship public school.
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