Suburban Education
Education news, analysis, and opinion about suburban education and suburban schools
School & District Management
Memphis Votes to Merge City and Suburban Schools
Now haggling begins over when to form a new school board and what its composition should be.
Education
Study: Diversity in Suburban Schools Has Grown
Suburban schools have become more diverse overall since the 1993-94 school year, according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Hispanic Center. But the exposure of the average white student in individual schools to other students who are of a different ethnic or racial background has increased only slightly. For example, the study found that the average white suburban student attended a school in which 75 percent of students were white in the 2006-07 school year; in the 1993-94 school year, the student body would have been 83 percent white on average. See the Associated Press story and USA Today story on the report.
Education
Suburbs or Urbs?
He sends his own daughter to a suburban public school, but NYC educator continues to be amazed at why city kids can’t get what his daughter gets—luxuries like well-kept facilities, windows, real classrooms, and computers in every classroom. What’s the solution?
Education
Letter to the Editor
A Tale of ‘Urbanization of Suburban Schools’
Having lived in the Newark, N.J., area during the period of 1950 to 1970, I can attest to the accuracy of the story Joy Dryfoos tells of a declining city and school district ("A Tale of One City," Commentary, March 30, 2005).
Equity & Diversity
Hartford Sweetens Deal to Draw Suburban Students to City
Under legal pressure to better integrate its schools, the Hartford, Conn., school district is making neighboring suburbs an offer it hopes they can't refuse: Send your children to our magnet schools, and we will foot the bill.
Equity & Diversity
Remodeling Suburbia
Sure as the sun rises on every shopping mall and soccer field, America's suburbs will continue to grow and evolve, just as they have since someone paved the first cul de sac.
Sure as the sun rises on every shopping mall and soccer field, America's suburbs will continue to grow and evolve, just as they have since someone paved the first cul de sac.
Education
Remodeling Suburbia
Suburban educators be warned: Your communities and schools are likely to change significantly in the coming years. Part 2 of Education Week's series on how public education will evolve in this new century focuses on the suburbs, home to the majority of Americans, by examining two communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Education Funding
Suburbs Challenge School Funding Formula in R.I.
For the second time this decade, Rhode Island has been called to court to defend the way it dispenses school aid. But this time around, the challenge has come from a very different set of litigants.
English Learners
Bilingual Battle Divides Suburban Calif. District
Language-minority students in a Southern California community have been caught in the middle of a legal tug of war over how they should be taught.
Education
Six Suburban Schools in Md. To Be 'Reconstituted'
The superintendent of a suburban Maryland school system will dramatically reorganize six schools and strip them of their staffs this summer in hopes of jump-starting their flagging academic performance.
Education
Study Charts Dramatic Rise in Suburban Child Poverty
Child poverty is increasing dramatically in the suburbs, and, if the trend continues, schools and children's agencies will face "overwhelming" demands to provide social, health, and other services, a new report predicts.
Education
Imperiled Awards Program Said To Favor Suburban Schools
As lawmakers and Bush Administration officials last week began discussing how to finance the Blue Ribbon Schools program this year, a House Democrat released statistics that he said show that the program "is fixated on success stories in the suburbs."
Education
Newly Diverse Suburbs Facing City-Style Woes
When Karmel Shields, executive director of the Bellevue (Wash.) Schools Foundation, approaches residents of the largely affluent suburban district for donations to support programs for disadvantaged students, she is frequently met with puzzled glances.
Education
Va. School-Funding Proposal Irks Suburban Educators
A Virginia panel's recommendations aimed at closing the funding gap between wealthy and poor school districts in the state have touched off a politically explosive battle pitting legislators and school officials from affluent Washington suburbs against their rural downstate colleagues.