February 26, 1997
Education Week, Vol. 16, Issue 22
Education
Community Resources
Public and private agencies in St. Paul, Minn., are joining forces to provide low-income children with several services under one roof in so-called Achievement Plus schools.
Education
Lost Youths
As more families move to the suburbs, the southeast Baltimore area has been losing its population of school-age children. That decrease has been felt in all of the area's Roman Catholic elementary schools.
School Choice & Charters
Keeping the Faith
Susan Round is squeezing in a few extra minutes of a lesson on homonyms before her 2nd grade class breaks for lunch on a Friday afternoon at the pre-K-3 Bishop McVinney Regional School in Providence.
School & District Management
Urban Schools Group To Unveil 'Marshall Plan' Next Month
Hoping to ease the plight of big-city school systems, the Council of the Great City Schools plans to unveil an "Urban Education Marshall Plan" next month.
Reading & Literacy
Effectiveness of Clinton Reading Plan Questioned
At first glance, educators say, it is a grand plan: Mobilize a "citizen army" of college students, parents, senior citizens, and other do-gooders, and march them into schools around the nation to help all children read by the end of 3rd grade.
Education
Without Abandonment
A few blocks made a world of difference when Angela Rebbert was growing up in southeast Baltimore in the early 1960s.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Early Reading Intervention And Special Education's Woes
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Horizon Alternative School: Why Promising Reforms Disappear
In the winter of 1979, the Johnson Foundation invited an unusual group
of educator to its Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wis.
School & District Management
Opinion
What's a Superintendent To Do?
Being the superintendent of a major
urban school district has never been an
easy job.
Education
Opinion
The SAT and 'Talent Identification'
Last month, tens of thousands of 12-year-olds
sat next to high school juniors and seniors
in classrooms and gymnasiums across the
country and took the SAT.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
The Paideia Movement: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
In Mentor, Ohio, the parents of Brentmoor Elementary School children
meet on a February evening to participate in a seminar on the music and
lyrics of "The Phantom of the Opera."