Saturday, February 4th, 2012
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Feb 3, 2012Two years into New Haven’s school reform effort, there are signs of improvement. But as WNPR’s Neena Satija reports, it’s not yet clear if the effort is really working.
New Haven began its school reform campaign by placing its schools into three different tiers. Last year, it then designated some of the lowest-performing, or Tier Three schools, as “turnaround” schools, implementing significant staff and other changes. Since then, none of the schools have managed to move up a tier – in fac... read more
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Jan 27, 2012Thousands of children struggling against poverty find hope - and the path to a better life - through classical music.
Its not some pipedream...but a very real and inspiring story of El Sistema - The System: a music phenomenon in Venezuela that’s touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of k... read more
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Jan 26, 2012Connecticut’s seen a jump in student test scores in recent years. But as WNPR’s Neena Satija reports, a study released today/Thursday suggests that jump may be explained by a new way of collecting data.
In the past few years, scores on the Connecticut Mastery Test appear to have been on the r... read more
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Jan 23, 2012Members of the Sheff Movement Coalition are calling on Governor Malloy to make school diversity a core educational priority for the state.
Philip Tegeler, a member of the coalition and one of the original lawyers in Connecticut’s landmark Sheff vs. O’Neill school desegregation case, says mor... read more
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Jan 23, 2012Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds
Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places lik... read more
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Jan 20, 2012Thousands of students leave their traditional public high schools each year for what are called alternative schools. They’re meant to provide small... read more
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Jan 20, 2012In the previous segment of our three-part series, we heard about students who leave the traditional public school system for so-called alternative... read more
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Jan 18, 2012It’s already in place in New York - a grading system for restaurants. Soon, Hartford diners will find out if their favorite hotspot makes the grade... read more
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Jan 18, 2012
Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra has appointed five people to serve on the city's board of education. As WNPR's Jeff Cohen reports, one of those five is Segarra himself.
When he took office, Pedro Segarra told WNPR's Where We Live that he wouldn't be his own first choice to serve on... read more
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Jan 18, 2012Thousands of public school students in Connecticut don’t get their diplomas each year, but only some are called “dropouts.” So what happens to the others? In the first of a three-part series, WNPR’s Neena Satija reports on how kids leave the school system without officially “dropping out.”
Ja... read more
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Jan 17, 2012There has been a lot of talk recently about whether a Liberal Arts college degree is worth it. Some leading liberal arts schools are trying to make... read more
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Jan 13, 2012A spokesman for the New Haven Public Schools is leaving his post following an incident in which he grabbed a reporter’s camera while she was on ass... read more
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Jan 13, 2012Parents packed into an elementary school \gymnasium in Middletown last night to hear from local education officials, and to voice their concerns o... read more
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Jan 11, 2012The word "meme" is a great example of a meme and of a word that was very quickly and totally absorbed into the language.
Thinker Richard Dawkin... read more
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Jan 11, 2012Just over a year ago, Governor Dannel Malloy became the state’s first Democratic governor in 20 years.
His first year in office could be rememb... read more
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Jan 10, 2012Governor Malloy has called this upcoming legislative session “The Education Session.”
You can see why. Connecticut has one of the worst achieve... read more
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Jan 5, 2012Hundreds of Connecticut legislators, teachers, parents, and activists gathered at Central Connecticut State University today to discuss the need for education reform in the state. WNPR’s Neena Satija reports.
Governor Dannel Malloy has called 2012 Connecticut’s Year for Education Reform. In t... read more
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Jan 4, 2012Connecticut’s largest teachers union added its voice on Tuesday to a growing chorus of proposals for school reform. The union’s plan addresses the... read more
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Jan 3, 2012A program that serves families in a distressed, low-income neighborhood in Meriden has been awarded federal money to expand. The Meriden Family Zone ties together services and supports to improve the lives of families and young children.
Families who are part of the Meriden Family Zone tend b... read more
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Jan 3, 2012David Weinberger, our guest today, argues that our reservoir of information has become so huge and complicated that one of the standard activities... read more
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