Rise & Shine: Recent graduates laud their transfer high schools

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | July 6, 2012, 11:19am UTC
  • Recent graduates endorse their transfer high schools, but accountability systems don’t. (Daily News)
  • In five months, the White House has freed more than half of states from No Child Left Behind. (Times)
  • The city’s summer jobs program, which researchers say add value, started Thursday. (GothamSchools)
  • A Brooklyn high school teacher was killed in her Staten Island home. (S.I. Advance, Times, Post)
  • David Brooks: Schools praise diversity but don’t allow for the diversity that boys provide. (Times)
  • A study finds that the number of schools nationally that sell sugary drinks to students is down. (Reuters)
  • Inexplicably and atypically, Texas is placing fewer students in special education. (Houston Chronicle)