School fires 100-0 coach
Covenant School in Dallas has fired the girls’ basketball coach who let his team beat Dallas Academy 100-0. Coach Micah Grimes had posted a message on a youth basketball saying he disagreed with...
View ArticleHigh school starts at 21
Hoping to lure dropouts back to school, Dallas now lets adults enroll in high school, even if that means a ninth-grade class could include a 21-year-old and a 12-year-old. A Texas law encourages high...
View Article‘Cage fights’ in high school
At a Dallas high school, the principal and staffers staged cage fights in a sports locker room utility cage, charges a district investigation reported by the Dallas Morning News. South Oak Cliff High...
View ArticleBlack flight in Dallas
Black parents and education leaders are pulling out of district-run schools in Dallas, reports the Morning News. Some black students go to charter schools; others are enrolled in suburban districts....
View ArticleOnline credit recovery hikes grad rates
High schools are boosting graduation rates by adopting online “credit recovery” programs, reports the Texas Tribune and the Hechinger Report in the New York Times. It’s not clear whether recovering...
View Article‘Exemplary’ school taught only reading, math
A Dallas elementary school with “exemplary” math and reading scores taught no science or social studies to third graders, district officials charge. It was all reading and math all the time. The music...
View ArticleDistricts drop extra pay for master’s
Teachers with master’s degrees aren’t any more effective than their non-degreed colleagues, say researchers. Now North Carolina, Dallas and Houston are cutting extra pay for advanced degrees....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Raising AP pass rates for blacks, Latinos
Rachmad Tjachyadi teaches AP chemistry at White High in Dallas Black and Latino students in Dallas high schools pass the Advanced Placement exams at the highest rate in the country, reports KERA News....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kentucky, Georgia top NAEP Dishonor Roll
Kentucky, Georgia and Maryland top Dropout Nation’s NAEP Dishonor Roll 2015 for excluding high percentages of special education and English Learner students from testing. The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dallas isn’t a Wobegon for teachers
Dallas is not Lake Wobegon, reports the National Council on Teacher Quality. The district’s new evaluation system did not declare that nearly all teachers are satisfactory. Among the system’s seven...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where teacher evaluation works
Teacher evaluation can make a difference — if done well, concludes a National Council on Teacher Quality study of Dallas, Denver, the District of Columbia, Newark, New Mexico and Tennessee. Unlike some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free college fails without college-ready students
Tuition-free community college won’t do much good if students aren’t prepared to pass college courses, write Stanley Litow and Tina Kelley on The 74. “Currently, 60 percent of two-year college students...
View ArticleClik here to view.
D.C. schools are fastest improving
You don’t hear a lot of good news about public schools in Detroit or Cleveland, but they rank among the fastest-improving urban school districts, according to a study by the Council of the Great City...
View Article
