Geography lessons ‘not good enough in half of schools’
In a damning report, Ofsted said teaching in the subject was not good enough in more than half of English state schools. Geography – traditionally a cornerstone of the curriculum – is often undermined by a lack of space in school timetables after being edged out by exam practice and other subjects such as citizenship. [...]
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Pay reduced for controversial consultant at Memphis City Schools
Jeffrey Hernandez, the Florida consultant hired by Memphis City Schools Supt. Kriner Cash to help turn around failing schools, is working for about half the amount the school board promised to pay him in August. While he still earns $1,500 a day, an update shared with the board Monday shows Hernandez’s contract has dropped from [...]
Parents’ timing tardy in getting kids to Memphis City Schools
While most Memphis City Schools students reported for classes on the first day, Aug. 9, as many as 12 percent of the district’s pupils took their own sweet time showing up. MCS reports that on Aug. 13, there were 92,378 students registered in K-12. By Aug. 31 that number had grown to 104,810. It wasn’t [...]
Memphis City Schools consultant earned failing grades at last stop
By November 2009, then-Palm Beach County Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey Hernandez (left) had begun to feel the pressure of parents opposed to his policies for turning around schools there. A consultant hired Monday by the city school board to turn around failing schools in Memphis was driven out of school administration in Palm Beach, Fla., [...]
Wave of support raises stakes for Memphis City Schools
Rebecca Panter (left) and Jasmyn Wright, who moved from out of state to teach at Evans Elementary School, set up for the first day of class. First-year Memphis City Schools teacher Jasmyn Wright, 21, grew up in South New Jersey, studied a semester in Africa and graduated a semester early from Spelman College with a [...]