The Dimensions of Effective Teaching reflect the shared vision of the Boston Public Schools that is critical to creating school cultures characterized by high expectations for achievement, equal access to high levels of instruction, the achievement of academic proficiency for all students, and the closing of the achievement gap among subgroups within the schools. TheDimensions outline the universa
57-page pdf file specifying the Code of Discipline for Boston Public Schools. Includes expulsion hearing scripts, etc.
Detailed .pdf of the complete BPS budget
Really? We are trying to work with our local university partners for students that are coming right out of college and recognizing the fact that this is a great first place for them to get their feet wet and work in a development environment or an infrastructure environment...
The fate of a school and its headmaster's career rest on restoring what was once a Boston educational icon. English High, America's oldest public high school, is in serious trouble. Can principal Duarte help his student's and his school to succeed?
The open source movement and libraries have a lot in common, not the least of which is the belief in free and open access to ideas and information. Yet, until recently, libraries have been slow to switch to open source software. Libraries have highly specialized software needs because the library community has developed its own complex standards and protocols to facilitate things like interlibrary loan, meta data sharing, and federated searching. Until recently, lack of commercial support made implementing open source unfeasible for libraries without an IT staff. Also, open source alternatives weren't perceived as scalable or feature-rich enough to handle the complex needs of most libraries. Now, commercial support has facilitated new levels of collaboration between libraries through sponsored development.
VuFind is an OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog: aka library card catalog) developed and released open source from Villanova University. Ubuntu is the latest "heralded" Linux distribution--known primarily for its ease-of-use and friendly UI.
ISSN:1481-1782. This article covers essential associations and organization, research projects, surveys, reports, books, conferences, studies, periodicals and online resources that teacher-librarians should know to stay current and take their stand as leaders in their school. They include the published proceedings of the annual conference of the International Association of School Lib...
For more than five hours a day, six days a week, the 29 Boston public school students are learning Arabic and studying Middle Eastern history, geography, and culture as part of a national initiative to ramp up the number of Arabic speakers. The new, federally funded program, which is in only eight schools nationwide...
The pilot high schools, run by the public school system, often demand student transcripts, teacher recommendations, and essays from applicants, practices more common in private schools, a Globe review of admissions policies has found.
Boston's superintendent and others say the hurdles fly in the face of the pilot schools' original purpose, which was to show that given more freedom in budgeting...
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