Comments on: “No Child?” No Problem http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/28/no-child-no-problem/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:56:23 -0500 hourly 1 By: Judy Ramirez http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/28/no-child-no-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4104 Judy Ramirez Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:42:21 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=444#comment-4104 Please detail what is happening to achieve such results! Congratulations! Please detail what is happening to achieve such results! Congratulations!

]]> By: Patrick Riccards http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/28/no-child-no-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4078 Patrick Riccards Wed, 28 May 2008 14:27:05 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=444#comment-4078 Such positive stories are, unfortunately, few and far between. It seems we are far more interested in failing schools and reasons for why a school CANNOT perform than in success stories and how schools in non-idealic situations are meeting the "unmeetable" demands of AYP. Luckily, Ocean City is not alone at the head of the class. Check out the Souderton Collaborative Charter School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The leadership of this school comes of out of the Philadelphia Public Schools, and they realized the value in investing in efforts that would get every student reading at grade level. The result -- 100% proficiency for every fifth grader in the school. Like Ocean City, Souderton is also meeting the NCLB requirements years before the date. Check it out at http://www.scsc4kids.org. Such positive stories are, unfortunately, few and far between. It seems we are far more interested in failing schools and reasons for why a school CANNOT perform than in success stories and how schools in non-idealic situations are meeting the “unmeetable” demands of AYP.

Luckily, Ocean City is not alone at the head of the class. Check out the Souderton Collaborative Charter School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The leadership of this school comes of out of the Philadelphia Public Schools, and they realized the value in investing in efforts that would get every student reading at grade level. The result — 100% proficiency for every fifth grader in the school. Like Ocean City, Souderton is also meeting the NCLB requirements years before the date. Check it out at http://www.scsc4kids.org.

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