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Opinion: Scandal Debunks Education Miracles

A scandal now unfolding in New York City, home of the nation's largest school district, is calling into question whether miracles in education are really mirages. From 2006 to 2010, the number of students who passed statewide math tests in Grades 3 through 8 soared from 58 to 82 percent. During the same period, the...

Opinion: Mayor Bloomberg Flunks on School Chancellor Pick

(Nov. 10) -- "Are you serious? What planet are we on?" one New York City principal screamed into my ear, reacting to the news that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had tapped Cathleen Black, a woman with no boots-on-the-ground teaching experience, to serve as the next chancellor of the city's public schools. This principal and I...

Opinion: City Schools Reform Must Include Parental Choice

(June 29) -- New York City's schools are quiet for the next several weeks as more than 1 million students take summer break. But while children are at home, parents wonder if and when K-12 education will ever turn around in the nation's largest school district. At least with New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein,...

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06/01/12 âBlame emâ Klein is urged about teachers union in... Source: Philadelphia Public School Notebook - Philadelphia PA The 228 pages released today contain large swaths of blacked-out text.
05/31/12 STATE AFFAIRS: American education in crisis, again? Source: The Times - Ottawa IL The sky is falling in American education, again, according to a new report on "Education Reform and National Security."
05/31/12 Givebacks key in E. Ramapo revote Source: LoHud.com - White Plains NY East Ramapo school district officials hope union concessions will persuade voters to approve a budget thats virtually unchanged from the one they defeated May 15 by more than 2,000 votes.
05/21/12 Schools of Doom Source: Tapped After 30 yearsâsome historians might say 100 yearsâof rhetoric about the "crisis" in American education, it's getting hard to come up with new ways to frighten the public about the state of American schools.
05/16/12 Save Students By Ending Bloomberg's... Source: Black Star News - NY NY In April, former New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein and former Washington D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced that their StudentsFirstNY group intends to spend $10 million a year for five years to make sure that Mayor Bloomberg's education legacy continues after he leaves office.

Background on joel klein

Joel Irwin Klein (born October 25, 1946) was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools.

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