A day after they were handed the latest study showing the poor results of their turnaround reforms, the mayor's hand-picked school board voted to turn 10 more neighborhood public schools over to a private turnaround company. This despite day-long protests outside their offices by hundreds of angry parents, students and community supporters (none of the […]
Sometimes it's easy to forget that we live in, or near, one of the truly great and amazing world cities. Recesses are, for me, a time to get out and explore some of the awesomeness that New York City has to offer. The downside, however, is that this often means standing in very long lines. Apparently a book has been written suggesting that French childr […]
Kind of by definition, right? NEWs, you might assume, means NEW. Our old friends at Gotham Schools don’t quite get it? Last night they posted their little round-up, third link is to a video of a kid using some odd place value pictures to add four-digit numbers. We know the date of the upload to [...]
OK, my first D3 visualization, or at least a screenshot of the core data part of it, is above. Of course I have to add scales, explanation, etc., but I'm pretty happy with my progress today. You can click on the image to expand. This is the percent of students receiving free (not reduced) lunch data by school in each school in Rhode Island from the NCES […]