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AHA! INFO ON EAST NOBLE'S WEDNESDAY START

Well, it seems as if this isn't new and goes back to 2005/2006 when Ann Linson, principal at East Noble, implemented a teacher's collaboration meeting during the first 30 minutes of school. It cuts out scheduled study halls that day and makes the 30 minutes at the beginning of the day a study hall period for all kids.

Buses run the same schedule.

In 2005, Linson cited Homestead High School*, which has a collaboration period and an 85% ISTEP passage statistic. I am not certain that the ISTEP is really helping Indiana students or not; it seems a lot of effort goes into getting the very marginal student to eke out a passing mark at the expense of talented students. I think we should question the No Child Left Behind policy as actually shortchanging students who are capable of leaping forward. So, in effect, they are being left behind.

*Homestead is in the affluent Aboite Township in Southwest Fort Wayne, not far from Lutheran Hospital.

posted by Jody @ 7:15 AM