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...students who attend CAL-Dows High School, situated just down the hall, are a bunch worth emulating. The older students juggle calculus and physiology classes with school trips to Spain and statewide jazz-band competitions. Some make time every day to tutor first-graders in math or reading. Among last year's graduates, 98% went on to college...
Last month seventh- and eighth-graders studying Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth tapped into a website to see live shots of active volcanoes and examine diagrams of the earth's core. On the same day, math students manipulated the size and shape of triangles on their laptops, watching as the angles and areas changed. "When you can see it, you can believe it," says teacher Heather Marshall. Learning on laptops, she says, is at once "deeper" and more...
That kind of response was bothering Stonewall parents more than anything else, as Constantino learned when he became principal six years ago. Parents wondered, Did their child arrive on time for school that day? Did he or she turn in the math homework? Are there any big tests or projects coming...
...Tech had received Fs on the state's report card for four consecutive years. Three-quarters of the students who began as freshmen never made it to graduation. Fewer than 25% of sophomores passed the state's basic-skills exam in math. Failure had become routine, expected and excused. After all, three-fourths of Fox Tech students are poor enough to receive subsidized lunches. More than half the students work at night to help support their families. Nearly 100 have their own children to support...
Still, the district thought Fox Tech could do better, and unleashed what educators call the "neutron bomb" of school reform: it "disestablished" the school and forced all employees to reapply for their jobs. New principal Joanne Cockrell, an intense former math teacher and basketball coach, rehired a third of the faculty and brought in 70 new teachers. All had to be willing, she says, "to give up their private time." Cockrell instituted a strict dress code and in her first year dragged 250 kids and their parents into truancy court. She also split the school into four specialized programs, each...