Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on August 18th, 2010
A headline in my hometown paper this week pierced the eerie quiet of the waning summer in NYC. “Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in City Schools,” it proclaimed, topping an article with damning data about the discrepancies in math and reading scores between African-American and Hispanic third- through eighth-graders and their white peers. The [... click post title to read more ...]
Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on August 10th, 2010
Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in acronyms? I do. ECE and the programs, structures, initiatives, tools, and policies that define it are nothing less than alphabet soup: CCDBG, HHS, DOE, IFSP, ECCS, NYSED, ITERS, ECCRS, NYCDOE, NCLB, ECMH, ACS. And that’s just a handful.
But here’s one acronym to keep squarely on your radar [... click post title to read more ...]
Posted by Susan Ochshorn, on August 5th, 2010
Action and August seem oxymoronic—unless you’re talking about activities that involve cool bodies of water and iced drinks. But ECE policy takes no vacation, so here’s a very quick update on the latest developments in New York City and New York State (my stomping ground), on the federal level, and what you can do to [... click post title to read more ...]
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