Connections: Should School Start Later in the Day?
In this hour, the nation's largest organization of pediatricians has released new recommendations on school start times. For middle and high school, they're drawing a red line: no earlier than 8:30...
View ArticleConnections: Is It Worth It To Study Journalism?
Should students go into journalism? Financial journalist Felix Salmon says no, not anymore . His piece touched off a strong online debate over whether 20-somethings should abandon the profession and...
View ArticleConnections: The Future of Testing in New York
New York state's testing opt-out numbers swelled to 20 percent this year. What does that mean going forward? We'll talk to East Rochester Superintendent Mark Linton , whose district saw scores go up......
View ArticleConnections: A Proposal For More Diverse Local Schools
An organization of local parents and educators has released a new survey of 600 Monroe County parents (300 in the city; 300 in the suburbs), finding that parents badly want more diversity in schools....
View ArticleConnections: A new look at local school rankings
Most school rankings lean heavily on academic performance, but what if test scores were taken out of the equation? The Democrat & Chronicle's Justin Murphy did exactly that, and his recent piece...
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