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...utter collapse of the public-school system is just starting to be understood. Nothing captures that collapse better than the video, popular on YouTube, that shows the shocking condition of the building that once housed Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School. Cass Tech meant a lot to me and other graduates for the opportunities it gave us. The old building, abandoned for a newer facility for the school, was a war zone--a ruin of overturned desks, textbooks, TVs and other equipment that could have been packed up and reused. If any public-school leaders had cared, and clearly...
...Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old who was beaten to death on Sept. 24 after he stumbled onto a brawl between rival gangs on his way home from school. The attack, captured by a cell-phone camera, has ignited outrage in a city that witnessed the murders of 34 public-school students last year...
...vacuum, says Samuel Casey Carter, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Center for Education Reform. "For more than 30 years, the Catholic Church has been supporting the public-school system, educating children that many said were uneducable," Carter says. "When these schools are closing at [a rate of] 100 to 200 a year, no matter how small they are, that ends up putting a massive burden on an already burdened public-school infrastructure." As he sees it, urban Catholic-school closures dump students back into a system that is ill-prepared to educate them, a system that in many large...
...most veterans of the U.S. public-school system can attest, many students enrolled in traditional math and English courses spend each period praying for the bell to ring. Extending the school day and year without implementing significant curricular changes would only intensify this painful academic experience, possibly leading to earlier, more frequent dropouts. On the flip side, those who would otherwise checkout might find joy in playing basketball, painting, dancing, practicing the flute—activities that would improve their quality of life while also keeping them in a safe school environment. If these mandatory programs began early, in kindergarten...
...Rally your friends to support a good cause. Last year bloggers competing in the online equivalent of a walkathon raised more than $270,000 for DonorsChoose.org, which funds public-school teachers' requests for classroom materials. This year's Social Media Challenge starts...