Mary Ann Giordano

Mary Ann Giordano appears in the following:

Private School Parents Targeted for Giving

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Parents of public school students in the city are responding to a SchoolBook survey by reporting expenses of up to thousands of dollars to support their child's school or school-relat...
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Districts Moving Against 'Pink Slime'

Monday, March 26, 2012

Even as the United States Department of Agriculture says it will begin offering schools alternatives to products that contain so-called "pink slime," an ammonia-based filler for groun...
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Are There Lessons in the Trayvon Martin Tragedy?

Friday, March 23, 2012

As the days go on, reaction has been building nationwide to the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was killed by a self-anointed neighborhood watchdog in Sa...
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Quinn's Quest for 'Kindergarten for All'

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Kindergarten is not mandatory in New York City. And so anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 children each year who meet the age qualifications don't enroll in kindergarten -- and too often th...
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The Courtship of Mr. Mulgrew

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

These days, among a certain group of mayoral hopefuls, the United Federation of Teachers president, Michael Mulgrew, is the most popular man in the room. With more than a year to go b...
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High Schools Scramble to Use Credit Recovery Before Policy Ends

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

One of the creative accommodations that has developed in this era of data-driven education is about to come to an end, and some city high schools and their students are making a last-...
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Why Some Parents Resent the Success Charter Schools

Monday, March 19, 2012

In an opinion article in The Times this weekend, a parent of a kindergarten pupil at P.S. 261 Philip Livingston in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, said the planned addition of Success Academy ...
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Eight School Employees Cited for Sexual Allegations

Friday, March 16, 2012

The spate of arrests in recent weeks of school employees for sexual misconduct culminated on Thursday with eight more names being added to the roster of shame. Four of the eight were ...
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Where Is the Money for Test Security?

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Back in the fall, state Education Department officials backed a series of measures that would improve the security of tests and make it more difficult for students, teachers or admini...
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Brooklyn Student Takes Third Place in National Intel Competition

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Congratulations are in order for Mimi Yen, a student at Stuyvesant High School, who took third place and the $50,000 prize in the Intel Science Talent Search on Tuesday night for her studies of microscopic worms.

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Fallout Continues Over Teacher Rankings

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The release of the data reports for 18,000 New York City public school teachers continues to reverberate, not just in the city but around the state and across the country. A number of...
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Promising Results Found With Core Knowledge Reading Method

Monday, March 12, 2012

Children at 10 schools who were taught reading using a curriculum designed by the education theorist E.D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation have significantly outperformed studen...
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Help for College Students Who Are Illegal Immigrants

Friday, March 09, 2012

With the Dream Act bill in limbo in Albany, the New York Immigration Foundation, with help from the Korean American Community Foundation and labor groups, and the support of the Fund ...
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Teachers' Morale Reaches 20-Year Low

Thursday, March 08, 2012

The outpouring of reaction to the release of the teacher data reports, as well as the stream of recent articles in blogs and other publications, has provided a pretty good sense of ho...
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What Should Be Learned From the Teacher Rankings?

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

As parents, teachers and others try to make sense of the teacher rankings that were released on Friday, an editor at The New Yorker wonders what she is supposed to think about the low...
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After a Tumultuous Week, It's Back to School

Monday, February 27, 2012

Last week was February break for city schools, but it was hard to tell, given the tumult of public school-related news. Not only was an audit released by the city pointing to serious ...
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College Racial Gap Continues to Grow

Friday, February 24, 2012

Richard Perez-Pena reports in The New York Times that the nation reached a milestone as of last March, with more than 30 percent of American adults holding at least a bachelor's degre...
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Gates Defends Teachers, Denounces Public 'Shaming'

Thursday, February 23, 2012

In an opinion article in Thursday's New York Times, Bill Gates -- famous for Microsoft and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a deep-pocketed supporter of causes related to school...
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Ravitch Says New Evaluation System Is 'Madness'

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The public schools may be closed all week for February Break, but critics and other writers are busy examining the new teacher evaluation agreement that was reached last week. Among t...
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New Rules Planned for School Vending Machines Nationwide

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

It's too soon to tell whether the switch to healthier food in school cafeterias -- and in school vending machines -- has had a discernible effect on childhood obesity in New York City...
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