City Releases Teacher Ratings
By Jackie Mader
For three years, New York City evaluated its public school teachers with “value-added” ratings system. These ratings were kept private from general public until now. After much anticipation and controversy, the city released the individual ratings of about 18,000 teachers to the public, and response has been mixed. Jackie Mader reports in a School Stories collaboration with Uptown Radio.
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Inside a Closing School: Jamaica High
By Jackie Mader
Residents of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn have been contending with the effects of gentrification for more than a decade. Upscale restaurants have forced out mom and pop residents and poor residents worry that they’re getting priced out. Now gentrification may be coming to Williamsburg schools. A nonprofit charter school is slated to open in an existing public school building and that’s divided the community. Jackie Mader reports in a School Stories collaboration with Uptown Radio.
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School Stories in Action
