I Mean the WHOLE Child

EDUCATION MATTERS!

Vol. 5, Issue No. 20

May 9, 2013

I Mean the WHOLE Child

National Award Spotlights Hartford's Community Schools Strategy

The Hartford Community Schools received the national excellence award last month, highlighting Hartford's level of commitment and implementation to a strategy that is having a positive impact on students, their families and the communities that surround seven schools. Why is this a big deal? This strategy represents the most comprehensive way for Hartford to directly address poverty's impact on learning - and it may just be the one education reform strategy that everyone can agree on.

A Study in Reform Contrasts

Sheff Agreement Heightens Responsibility; State Appropriations Committee Avoids It

A new agreement signed last month in the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation case laid down several significant new requirements for the State to meet as it works to fulfill its responsibility of providing Hartford students with an integrated education. The General Assembly's Appropriations Committee, however, had a different responsibility, for statewide education reforms. It just laid down.

Why the Rust Belt Rusted

Versatile Skills Have Replaced
Sedentary Jobs

Frank Galluni, Deb Migneault, Leticia Colon and

John Dankosky (at the podium) discuss the skills gap at this week's Community Information Hub forum.

When the panelists at the CT News Project Forum gathered this week to talk about the skills that will be needed for 21st century jobs, there was a bit of suspense at the Hartford Public Library. Then, it became clear: A foundation of literacy and analytic skills has to be continually reinforced so that it applies both to particular jobs and changing conditions.

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Insights

of the Week

Chicago's spoken-word poet and educator Malcolm London speaks to the "oceans of adolescence" flowing in to school ... but who never learn to swim, here.

Geoffrey Canada

Harlem Children's Zone President CEO Geoffrey Canada (above) speaks about modernizing schools here.

Up and

Coming ...

The next Regular Meeting of the Hartford Board of Education will be Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 5:30 p.m. at Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet School, 5 Cone Street.

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