"The enduring appeal of the comprehensive high school"

"In its push to close comprehensive high schools in particular, and replace them with campuses of multiple, smaller, “themed” high schools, the Education Department is closing down the very “choice” that helps keep many students going to school through their teenage years: the option to pursue an array of courses and after-school activities in line with their interests and abilities. If some of those interests wane, then something of more interest might be right down the hall."

http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/02/28/the-case-for-large-high-schools/

When the principal is a bully

On another post Anonymous wrote:

Questioner, please consider a new post. I think the timing is right for this. Very few people realize what goes on in out schools.


http://fryed.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/when-the-principal-is-a-bully-5/.

Oliver student hospitalized

On another post Anonymous wrote:

Student hospitalized after fight at Oliver High School


WPXI Pittsburgh





Pittsburgh Public Schools spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said the student was taken to an area hospital Monday by paramedics. His name and condition have not been ...

http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/student-hospitalized-after-fight-oliver-high-schoo/nN6L9/

This ahould be a seperate thread.

"Why don't we have any white kids?"

From the NYT:

"Decades of academic studies point to the corroding effects of segregation on students, especially minorities, both in diminished academic performance and in the failure to equip them for the interracial world that awaits them. "


All but one or two of the students quoted in the article express a preference for greater diversity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/education/at-explore-charter-school-a-portrait-of-segregated-education.html?_r=1

- A similar resegregation appears to be taking place in PPS.

Former PPS welding teacher files gender discrimination action

From the PG:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/former-pittsburgh-public-schools-welding-teacher-sues-claiming-sex-discrimination-635874/

Summer programs offered by PPS

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/pittsburgh-public-schools-prepares-summer-offerings-635816/?p=2

Ed week perspective on furloughs

On another post Anonymous wrote:

"http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/05/tim_slekar_pennsylvania_school.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB


See what is happening to PPS in perspective of the state "