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A Lesson In People Watching
By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Carly Ackerman, a teacher at Boys’ Latin Charter School in Philadelphia is teaching her 10th grade composition students about ethnography…not by reading,… more →
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A Lesson In People Watching
wrote 1 week ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Carly Ackerman, a teacher at Boys’ Latin Charter Scho … more →
Help With Vital Preschool Funding
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wrote 2 weeks ago: By Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Within the last two years Pennsylvania’s budget cuts resu … more →
Uneducated Means Out Of Work
wrote 3 weeks ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - In Philadelphia, over half a million adults lack the … more →
Philadelphia High School Graduation Rates Up 20 Percent In A Decade
wrote 1 month ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - In Philadelphia, Mayor Nutter has set a target for an … more →
Rahm Preaches Corporate Reform in Los Angeles
wrote 2 months ago: I made a conscious decision to focus on school news local to Chicago when I started the blog. I did … more →
Happy Presidents Day
wrote 3 months ago: I used to think that CPS did certain things just to mess with teachers. I remember in the past, th … more →
Shooting In Sandy Hook Prompts Reexamination Of Security At Philadelphia Public Schools
wrote 3 months ago: By Mike Dunn PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia School District’s top security offici … more →
Local Non-Profit Offers Families Options For Children's Education Amid School Closures
wrote 4 months ago: By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — As Philadelphia school officials finalize school closures … more →
The Philly Post: Let the Public Help With Teaching in Philly Schools
wrote 4 months ago: (This post originally appeared on The Philly Post) I’ve been watching the progress of Philadelphia’s … more →
Some Philadelphia H.S. Students Will Have A New, Easy Way To Get Condoms
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wrote 5 months ago: By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Students in 22 Philadelphia public high schools will return t … more →
Decision Expected Soon On Which City Schools Will Permanently Close
wrote 5 months ago: By Mike DeNardo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia school officials are getting ready to public … more →
Selecting A School
wrote 6 months ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Eighth grade students across the city are scrambling … more →
Making High School Choices
wrote 8 months ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The race is on for Philadelphia’s public school 8th g … more →
Group To Develop Plan Countering School Closures Study
wrote 9 months ago: By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A group of students, parents and teachers — unhappy wit … more →
Declining School Enrollments
wrote 9 months ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia is cited in articles about the national … more →
The Weekly Update: The fate of Philadelphia schools is our fate as well; poverty in America and Rupert Murdoch gets into the action. Oh yeah, and ALEC.
wrote 10 months ago: The Weekly Update: The news you might have missed. We’ll start with Reuters this morning: Smal … more →
Charter Schools: Helping Some, Hurting More
wrote 11 months ago: Ask almost any down-in-the-trenches teacher – as opposed to education academics whose heads generall … more →
Weekly Update: Opting out in Florida and Oklahoma, protests in Philadelphia and Bill Gates enters The Twilight Zone
wrote 11 months ago: This week more push back against standardized and high stakes testing. In Florida: 11 school distric … more →
Teaching Kids To Understand The World Through Science
wrote 11 months ago: By Dr. Marciene Mattleman PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Rashid, a first grader likes school. He also likes ch … more →
