RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL MAIN STREET TUTORS

"We'll Never Be Last Again"   

12-part series by the Hartford Courant on issues involving the Hartford Public Schools. Use these articles for required journal entry—read several and comment upon the ones that you find most interesting.

Part 1  "Can Hartford Schools Learn Their Lesson?"
Part 2   "A Field of Struggle Amid Dreams"
Part 3   "Passed Ahead, Left Behind"
Part 4   "Teaching With Heart"
Part 5   "A Driven Man, A Dire Setting"
Part 6   "A Jolt of Juanita"
Part 7   "Day of Reckoning by the Numbers"
Part 8   "Putting Math to the Test"
Part 9   "Little Children, High Stakes"
Part 10  "Within This Room, The Future"
Part 11  "A Principal Under Pressure"
Part 12  "Educating Edwin"

Comparing Urban and Suburban School Districts

The Connecticut State Department of Education has compiled “strategic school profiles” for each school district. This page contains links to profiles for Hartford and for the inner-ring suburb of West Hartford. Look at the data for the two communities. Compare community data, student need, and district resources. What conclusions can you draw? You may use this for a required journal entry.

Click here for the Hartford Strategic Profile

Click here for the West Hartford Strategic Profile

Connecticut Mastery Test Scores

The following link contains results of statewide standardized test scores (Fall 2000) for Connecticut cities and towns.  Towns are classified into social/economic groups.  Compare Hartford with some of its suburbs.  How are social and economic variables related to educational outcomes?  [Use for required journal entry]

Results of statewide standardized test scores (Fall 1999) for Connecticut cities and towns.  Towns are classified into social/economic groups.  Compare Hartford with some of its suburbs.  Click here for a related Hartford Courant article.

1999 SAT Scores for Connecticut High Schools

Click here for a table of SAT scores for Conecticut High Schools.  Compare Hartford with some of its suburbs.  How are social and economic variables related to educational outcomes?

Click here for a related story in the Hartford Courant.