Dr. Carol Corbett Burris

10:45-11:30 AM DELIA GARRITY, Assistant Superintendent, and CAROL BURRIS, Principal, Southside High School, Rockville Free Union School District.

Dr. Carol BurrisPrincipalSouth Side High School140 Shepherd StreetRockville Centre, N.Y. 11570Phone: (516)255-8947E-mail: cburris@rvcsschools.org
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Carol Burris, Principal at Southside High School in the Rockville Centre School District, described the detracking process that took place within her school.When she first entered the district, tracking had already begun to disappear.
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Burris said that detracking has been successful overall because the staff believes that students can achieve to high standards, and they provide support for students who are struggling to achieve at those high levels.

Achievement follows from opportunities, Ms. Burris and Mr. Welner assert, and the persistent practice of tracking denies a range of opportunities to large numbers of students.
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By Carol Corbett Burris and Kevin G. Welner
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This article responds to that shortage, describing how the school district in which Carol Burris serves as a high school principal was able to close the gap by offering its high-track curriculum to all students, in detracked classes.
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15. Carol Corbett Burris, Jay P. Heubert, and Henry M. Levin, "Math Acceleration for All," Educational Leadership, February 2004, pp.
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CAROL CORBETT BURRIS is the principal of South Side High School, Rockville Centre, N.Y.

William H. Johnson, Superintendent of Schools; Delia Garrity, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction & Carol Burris, Principal, South Side High School

"We wanted to respect the families of those who'd lost people," said Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, where six students and one teacher lost family members.
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"I started to cry - there was really no way not to," Burris, the principal, said.

"What students should know and be able to do in mathematics is a critical ingredient of the standards debate," write the researchers, Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY and Jay Heubert and Henry Levin from Teachers College at Columbia University.

"Part of the reason this has been as wonderful as it has been is because the beginning of the school year was so tragic," said Carol Burris, principal of the high school."We had three students who lost parents and a teacher who lost her husband in the World Trade Center.The year began in such a sad and somber way, the success of the football team has been such a gift that has brought us all together and lifted our spirits.Winning as well as we have this year has extra significance after the tragedy of Sept. 11."

The other reason for the embrace is because success in this area was so unexpected.The football program had been hapless for so long.

CAROL BURRIS, Principal 255-8947

Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in Long Island, N.Y., said this and other measures that correlated so closely to family income would not work unless "you incorporate into the formula a weighting for the proportion of students who receive free or reduced price lunch.
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Burris suggested a penalty for districts with more than their share of students employing private tutors.