OTHER STORIES

• Toxic testing

  Every day is a new chance to open minds and nurture dreams. Authentic and trusting relationships are what makes things happen when it comes to children, not the relentless collection of data.

• Stop and reverse the loss of teachers of color

  One positive change brought about by the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement was the increased hiring and promotion of educators and administrators of color in the New York City public school system. Today, that pattern has been reversed.

• Unions are part of the solution

  I don’t know where we’ve gone wrong as a society that we somehow perceive teachers, acting in concert to protect their profession and their students, as the enemy.

• Learning variables — and why you should be at the rally

  Let’s make sure we are all outside City Hall on March 5, so that the mayor can hear us loud and clear. Let’s see what we can accomplish when we join together in numbers too large to ignore.

• City public schools’ Intel success on the de-Klein

  As has been the case every year since 2003 when Chancellor Joel Klein effectively began his “save the public schools” regime, the numbers of New York City students reaching the semifinals of the Intel Science Talent Search declined.

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