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Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in th...

Greenwich Communities recently hosted a ceremony dedicating the new community room at Armstrong Court to the late Winston A. Robinson, a former resident, civil rights, community, and church leader. Nearly 100 attendees gathered in the newly named Winston A. Robinson Community Room to pay tribute to the legacy of Robinson, who passed away on Jan. […]

Anthony L. Johnson, CEO and executive director of Greenwich Communities announced  that a ceremony dedicating the new community room at Armstrong Court to the late Winston A. Robinson, a former resident and civil rights, community, church leader, and an outstanding human being will be held Saturday, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m. The Community Room will […]

Need to get in touch with us? Contact circulation at circulation_[at]_record-journal.com× Cardona’s ideas about education were forged in Meriden. Now he’ll bring them to D.C. Cardona’s ideas about education were forged in Meriden. Now he’ll bring them to D.C. Miguel Cardona, principal of Hanover School, eats breakfast and talks about Justain Bieber with third graders Asharia Ray (left) and Dina Hamideh (right) in the school cafeteria in Meriden, April 1, 2011. "I enjoy spen...

From the outside, the Meriden Public Schools system looks like a network of struggling city schools. The state has designated it an Alliance District and one of the “lowest-performing districts” since more than one-quarter of the students are multiple grades behind in English, math and science. It is also an economically isolated district that spends 30 percent less per student than the state average despite three-quarters of its students coming...

From the outside, the Meriden Public Schools system looks like a network of struggling city schools. The state has designated it an Alliance District and one of the “lowest-performing districts” since more than one-quarter of the students are multiple grades behind in English, math and science. It is also an economically isolated district that spends 30% less per student than the state average despite three-quarters of its students coming from low-income families. And the school ratings oft...

Miguel Cardona with his parents outside one of their first apartments. President-elect Joe Biden Tuesday evening announced that Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona is his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, an agency the president will rely on to get millions of students back into the schools closed by COVID-19 and to convince Congress to invest much more in education for a host of the president’s priorities. “In Miguel Cardona, America will have an experienced and ...

By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, CT Mirror President-elect Joe Biden Tuesday evening announced that Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona is his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, an agency the president will rely on to get millions of students back into the schools closed by COVID-19 and to convince Congress to invest much more in education for a host of the president’s priorities. “In Miguel Cardona, America will have an experienced and dedicated public sch...

, and is reprinted with permission. When he was assistant superintendent of schools in Meriden, Miguel Cardona — the state’s new education commissioner — would take new teachers on a tour of the city’s neighborhoods. He did it because he wanted the teachers to understand the diversity of their students — from those living in half-million dollar homes to those from housing projects. “The experience motivated the teachers to get to know their kids better,” Cardona said, “and be m...