White House
Peggy Aw, Grade 8
CEI-PEA publishes an advocacy newsletter, the CEI-PEA Alert, which presents information and opinions on critical issues in public education. The Alert is distributed to a diverse constituency, including parents, teachers, school leaders, policy makers, and educational funders. Recent topics include career technical education, how to get and keep the best teachers, and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein's new accountability system. Click on a title below to download the issue.
Career technical education offers students academically challenging programs that also give them "real world" skills to prepare for the new global, technologically-driven job market. This issue of the CEI-PEA Alert describes best practices in career technical education and what parents can do to help their children prepare for the future workforce. Summer 2006.
How can NYC keep and retain the best teachers? This issue of the CEI-PEA Alert examines this question by looking at successful alternative recruitment programs such as Teach For America, policies that hinder the school system's ability to recruit quality teachers, and the supports new teachers need to remain on the job. Spring 2006.
New York City is launching a major new accountability system that will focus on the "value added" that schools make to the education of public school students. This system is being launched at a time when NYC students have achieved record gains on standardized tests and assessments. Fall 2005.
Restructuring large schools into sets of smaller learning communities is a proven, effective strategy to improve teaching and learning as well as provide students and parents with public school choice. Learn what it is like to attend a restructured school and hear what parents of students attending these schools think about them. Winter 2003.
Access past issues of the CEI-PEA Alert.