The panels at the Rochester Beacon’s May 13 forum explored both districtwide intervention and school-by-school initiatives. Videos of their detailed discussions are now online.
GUEST OPINION
The positive trajectory of the UR-East High partnership
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The Educational Partnership Organization’s significant investment in East High went beyond financial resources. It involved highly qualified teachers and staff with the heart and fortitude to do the work and to reexamine their own practices, resulting in a program that aligns with a clear vision for academic achievement and preparation of scholars for college and career.
GUEST OPINION
Solving the RCSD crisis requires collective change
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Whenever a student in our city falls behind, it is a failure that our entire community shares, and we as a community must come together behind the efforts of ROC the Future to forge a solution.
Education
Questions await the RCSD superintendent finalists
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The superintendent candidate forum’s format appears to have been designed to ensure that students, parents and RCSD employees as well as other community members are heard equally. The event’s tightly controlled format may not satisfy attendees hoping to directly quiz the candidates, however.
GUEST OPINION
Charter schools are helping to solve Rochester’s education crisis
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Charters stand ready to be partners in the difficult work that faces the Rochester education community. Most successful models of urban education reform have embraced charters, as well as many other innovative models.
Innovation
RIT students pitch their startups on investor demo night
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Teaching entrepreneurship lays the foundation for developing critical skills related to the creativity, persuasion and persistence one needs for success.
Policy Wonk
Breaking the cycle of failure in Rochester’s schools
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A local solution to the Rochester city schools crisis is beyond local reach. Power is too fragmented to permit substantive change. It’s time for New York to declare an educational emergency and establish receivership for the district.
GUEST OPINION
Rochester needs socioeconomically diverse, cross-district magnet schools
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Research shows integration. Segregation has terrible consequences, not just for children trapped in high-poverty, poor-performing schools, but for our entire community.
Education
Lessons in education reform
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Christopher Cerf was a key figure in efforts to turn around the long-ailing public schools in Newark, N.J. Under state control, Newark’s reform efforts targeted chronically poor graduation rates and low test scores. Next month, Cerf will deliver a keynote speech here detailing his Newark experience.
Education
The role of education in Rochester’s economy
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The challenge of Rochester’s public schools has been the “elephant in the room” in every discussion of poverty and economic development for decades. On May 13, the Rochester Beacon Solutions Forum will explore possible solutions to the problem of Rochester’s underperforming schools.
Education
A history of failures
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The state report on the death of Trevyan Rowe is the most recent but hardly the first description of the RCSD’s special education shortcomings. Is the district finally up to the challenge of fixing these problems?