The Neglected 'R': The Need for a Writing Revolution
Report of the National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and CollegesApril 2003
Report of the National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and CollegesApril 2003
Sol Stern, Encounter BooksMay 2003
Alliance for Excellent EducationApril 2003
Kevin Bushweller, Project Editor, Education WeekMay 8, 2003
Anthony P. Carnevale and Stephen J. RoseCentury FoundationMarch 2003
Last week, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the costs to states of implementing the testing requirements of No Child Left Behind. Not surprisingly, this doesn't seem to have settled any of the NCLB funding fuss.
The war in Iraq got columnist Michael Barone thinking: America's military is chock full of the underskilled, undereducated graduates produced by so many schools. What happened in the intervening years to turn them into the determined, competent soldiers who toppled Saddam's regime?
Last week I began to "debate myself" about the No Child Left Behind act, covering five NCLB issues that make me, and many others, ambivalent about this ambitious undertaking. [http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=21#125]That was not the end of it. Five more issues warrant pro-con examination.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown went to the California General Assembly last week to lobby for a bill that would allow nonprofit groups, colleges and universities, and mayors to authorize charter schools in that state.
Last August, when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg brought in Joel Klein as schools chancellor to help implement his Children First reform initiative, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten came out in support of the mayor and his education plans.