Helen Zelon, Author at City Limits

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THE MAN OF THE HOURWe will find the money to do this because we can't afford not to.Geoffrey Canada strides to the lectern in the New York Sheraton's Grand Metropolitan…

ByHelen Zelon 6 minRead time

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Feb 2010

Education

An Act of Faith

The HCZ model might not work in every depressed urban center. But something else might work in those cities—or might already be working, albeit outside the media spotlight or the…

ByHelen Zelon 10 minRead time

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Feb 2010

Uncategorized

The Charter Challenge

The charter school movement has been gathering steady steam since the late 1990s in New York City.

ByHelen Zelon 0 minRead time

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Feb 2010

Education

Lesson Plans: A Teacher Speaks

What’s it like teaching inside the school that’s become a national model for community improvement? A Promise Academy instructor explains.

ByHelen Zelon 19 minRead time

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Sep 2009

Uncategorized

Getting Lost On the Way To the Principal's Office

Clear lines of accountability for student discipline are needed in the era of police officers staffing public school hallways, say advocates and officials pushing for new rules.

ByHelen Zelon 22 minRead time

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Aug 2009

Government

Segregated and 'Adequate' Or Equal and Excellent?

Four professors studied urban schools and interviewed students about their experiences. A new book presents what they learned.

ByHelen Zelon 2 minRead time

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Jun 2009

Education Government

The Education Business: Teachers Missing At The Top

The New York City public school system has always been led by teachers. Until the chancellorship of Joel I. Klein.

ByHelen Zelon 26 minRead time

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Apr 2009

Uncategorized

What Will It Take To Alter Makeup of Top Schools?

Efforts to raise the achievement of students of color, and increase their admissions into the city’s competitive high schools, have seen limited success.

ByHelen Zelon 20 minRead time

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Jan 2009

Justice