2013-04-18
Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City
The city's Department of Recordsofficially announced the debut of the photo database.
Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in this photo dated July 29, 1908. The historical pictures released online for the first time show New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A bridge too far? Painters hang from suspended wires on the Brooklyn Bridge October 7, 1914 -- 31 years after it first opened
New Jersey Schools
Interactive Map: Elementary and Middle School Student Growth Measures
Welcome to the new math that will calculate how New Jersey’s public schools are going to be publicly judged and measured. And beware, it’s going to take some getting used to.
The Christie administration yesterday finally released its “School Performance Reports” for 2011-2012, a new version of the long-running School Reports Cards that have been an annual spring rite since the mid-1990s.
And while the new reports use many of the same sources of data as years past, they add a layer of interpretation as to what the data means -- at least as the Christie administration sees it.
Does a school match up to its counterparts? Are students gaining on their peers? Which schools are hitting their state-defined targets? Are students on track to be “college and career ready” -- starting in elementary school?The state’s new multipage and color-coded report for every school – 15 pages for elementary schools, 11 for high schools -- seeks to answer a few of those questions, relying on a series of new tools and methods.
For the first time, for example, elementary and middle schools are being judged not only on overall proficiency on the state’s language arts and math NJASK tests, but also using the new “student growth percentiles” (SGP).
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А у меня такой наивный вопрос: все те демократы, которые гнобили (заслуженно) Буша за то, что он дал нескольким саудовцам (ни один из которых не подозревался в непосредственном участии ни в чём) улететь домой после 9/11, они так же будут требовать полного расследования теперь, когда всем заправляет Обама?"