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Note: At right is a list of the 18 entries in the "Success Stories" archive (most recent first).
Below, the entries are listed again in expanded form, with a short excerpt or summary from each entry.Success Stories Archives
Charter Elementary Success in Watts: Recipe for Acheivement December 30, 2005
Via Joanne Jacobs, we learn of a success story in Los Angeles. The Watts Learning Center (WLC), a K-5 charter school serving "nearly all African American and low income" students, has dramatically raised the achievement of its students. For the Pacific Research Institute, Lance T. Izumi writes: In the Pacific Research Institute’s recent book, Free to Learn: Lessons from Model...
Success at Maple Elementary: A tree grows in Seattle December 12, 2005
We're always on the lookout for success stories, especially urban schools serving traditionally "at risk" students. Deborah Bach reports this week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about one such school: Maple Elementary. Two of every five students is classified as "Transitional Bilingual" and three of five qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, yet the school outperforms many other Seattle schools, and...
Catholic School Success: The Oblate Sisters of Baltimore July 11, 2004
Via Education News we learn of a speech given by Bill Cosby's wife Camille, in honor of the Oblate nuns of Baltimore, Maryland. Gregory Kane covered the story for the Baltimore Sun: Camille Cosby remembers when her brother, three years younger than she, entered St. Cyprian's [an elementary school in Washington] unable to read in the third grade. "You'll forgive... Posted by ceb into Success Stories
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Help needed for schools in a free Iraq June 28, 2004
We've been very interested in the progress of a free Iraq, and especially by what our troops are doing for Iraqi children and schools, as we wrote back in February. Recently a school yard blogger wrote of her experience at a "luncheon with the troops" with soldiers freshly returned from service in Iraq, and today has a nice breakdown of... Posted by ceb into Success Stories
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Congratulations class of 2004 June 24, 2004
Last night we attended the commencement exercises of our charter school. (At right is one of our students--who got an A in math and is headed for a career in the U.S. Air Force--coming down the aisle.) While we were dismayed at the lack of decorum by those in attendance--only a handful of men were even wearing a necktie (and... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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"The results have been impressive. They have also been ignored." June 08, 2004
Joanne Jacobs mentioned a story on Balanced Literacy today that's really gotten us steamed. Seems a public elementary school in Madison, WI, has resisted its school district's push for the mediocre Balanced Literacy program, and instead has been teaching reading using Direct Instruction, a method which uses explicit phonics. There are two noteworthy results: The kids--especially the black kids--are soaring.... Posted by ceb into Reading & English
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Reflections on Brown: Black school, White school May 20, 2004
Kimberly Swygert yesterday directed our attention to a very revealing story about two schools, one black, one white. The black school is struggling, and the white school is soaring, and we've all heard it before. This one would seem destined for the files of "separate and unequal" and would make good fodder for the argument that Brown v. Board of... Posted by ceb into Education Reform
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Not letting bad students demoralize May 06, 2004
Recently a teacher was feeling a bit down and out after some particularly trying episodes with students, and was entertaining thoughts of leaving the school at the end of the year, to seek work elsewhere. The disruptive and disrespectful students were monopolizing classroom time, and they were working overtime to drive the teacher nuts, and for the moment, the teacher... Posted by ceb into Success Stories
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A teacher's thanks April 25, 2004
Sometimes it seems like teaching is a thankless job, especially when (as with all professions) folks are far more likely to complain than say a positive word. Having said that, here's a interesting incident that happened recently. I was in the middle of an activity with my students when the school's guidance counselor approached me. With a very serious face,... Posted by ceb into Success Stories
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Iraqi Schools and the U.S. Military February 16, 2004
Two reports from CENTCOM in the past few weeks highlight just one part of the U.S. military's role in the rebuilding of Iraq. Staff Sergeant Nate Orme writes of one artillery officer, and his mission to help Iraqi schoolchildren. When First Lietenant Kyle Barden's unit was put in charge of the Kurdish town of Laylan in Northern Iraq, he noticed... Posted by ceb into Off topic
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18 Students Ace Math SAT in one school January 29, 2004
Eighteen students at Desert Vista High School got a perfect 800 on the math SAT, and in the past four years they've either placed first, second or third in the state on the Math portion of the Stanford-9. So how do they do it? Posted by ceb into Education Reform
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The Battle for History Standards in Minnesota January 26, 2004
Excellent news from Minnesota! We've posted previously about our dismay at poorly written standards, especially those at the state level, which is quite a few levels away from the classroom that the standards can be--and have frequently been--disfigured into an incomprehensible mess. But it doesn't have to be that way. Now, in Minnesota, they've completed the final draft of their... Posted by ceb into Education Reform
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Former student of Jaime Escalante turns out okay January 21, 2004
We first were introduced to Jay Mathews by reading his book on Jaime Escalante, the East L.A. high school calculus teacher who inspired the movie Stand and Deliver. Mr. Mathews' latest Washington Post column catches up with one of Escalante's former students. One of the many things I envy about teachers is the joy they feel when students come back... Posted by ceb into Math Education
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Overrepresentation of foreign-bred students in U.S. specialties January 21, 2004
Yesterday, psychometrician Kimberly Swygert gave us "The inside scoop of Harcourt Assessment." In her post, she suggested that readers note "the names of the four doctoral fellows who spent the summer at Harcourt in 2003, learning the ropes." We did, and they are Saengla Chaimongkol (Florida State University), Pei-Hua Chen (University of Texas at Austin), Shuhong Li (University of Massachusetts),... Posted by ceb into Higher Education
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Slice of life: Iraqi public school students January 17, 2004
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article on one reporter's stay with a Baghdad family. A year ago, the youngest children - twin girls Duha and Hibba, now 12 - and their youngest brother Mahmoud, often broke into pro-Hussein chants when they heard the president's name, as they had been taught at school. But today, education couldn't be more... Posted by ceb into Success Stories
Thwarting Charter School Efforts January 06, 2004
From today's Center for Education Reform's Newswire, we have the story of a charter school application which was denied on some suspicious grounds. One of the more creative reasons for denying a charter application can be found in Portland, Oregon, where a team of administrators recommended to Portland’s District School Board that they deny a charter application because it called... Posted by ceb into Charter Schools
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Good News from 2003 January 04, 2004
Mona Charen has an excellent sampling of 2003's education follies, with both good and bad news. The bad news? The usual suspects (bureaucrats and politicians) up to their predictable tricks, opposing choice in the form of vouchers and charter schools. The good news? A recent positive vote for vouchers in D.C. and great results from some recent studies on the... Posted by ceb into Education Research
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Homeschooled Novelist January 03, 2004
We love homeschooling success stories. Now here's another feather in the cap of the movement. As of this posting, a little 500-page fantasy novel called Eragon is 35th on Amazon's sales rankings. Considering the breadth of Amazon's shelves, that's saying a lot. (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is currently 59th.) And Brian Micklethwait reports, "The boy who... Posted by ceb into Homeschooling
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