Thursday July 16^th, 2009

Teaching With The Times

These special pages feature materials designed to complement classroom curriculum. Each page provides a wealth of resources: lesson plans, Times articles, multimedia, archival materials, quizzes, crosswords, related websites and more.

Whether you're teaching Shakespeare or science, history or health, check back often for materials to help students make connections between course material and issues and events in the news. Read More

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Preparing All Students for Post–secondary Success

Although much attention has been paid to the national graduation and dropout rates, those discussions obscure another population: students who obtain their high school diplomas but are not prepared to succeed in postsecondary education or the workforce. Those students are the near dropouts who earned enough credits to graduate, but have backgrounds similar to the 1.2 million students whom high schools "lose" annually. Read More

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Throwing a Lifeline to Struggling Teachers

Montgomery Program Embraces Peer Review

Jean Bernstein rang a cowbell, her cue to quiet the sixth–graders at Roberto Clemente Middle School for a lesson on multiplying decimals. "You need to settle down," she said.

But that afternoon in Germantown, students seemed intent on chatting, clapping and exchanging high–fives. As the teacher led the class through a sheet of problems, one boy punctuated every answer by exclaiming, "I agree!"

The students might have cut Bernstein some slack had they known that she, too, was being graded. Read More

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Gang Prevention Program Tips the Balance for Teens

At 13, Victor hung around with gang members. He got into fights, smoked pot and was caught tagging, all signs he was headed toward even bigger trouble.

He's 14 now, a seventh–grader at a Watsonville middle school. A slim youth with large brown eyes and dark hair cropped close to his head, he could be one of any number of Watsonville teens whose futures hang in the balance. He's turning his life around. Read More

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Coalition Targets Gang Prevention

With the fight against area street gangs far from over, the SAW Coalition spent Thursday night at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel wined and dined with local politicians, judges, police chiefs, school superintendents and other community leaders. Read More

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