Low-performing schools need more than self-help jargon
Have you ever wanted to grow your ?emotional intelligence including managing your gremlin,? while receiving training in ?resilience? or ?creativity??
Have you ever wanted to grow your ?emotional intelligence including managing your gremlin,? while receiving training in ?resilience? or ?creativity??
Think your college student is holed up in the library, studying away for dozens of hours? Think again. According to a recent policy brief by AEI there has been a dramatic decrease in student study time since the 1960s. In 1961 the average student at a four-year university studied about twenty hours a week. Fast forward fifty years and students are studying only fourteen hours a week!
Fordham’s hometown of Dayton is famous not only for the Wright Brothers but also for being a school choice mecca.
Sam Sperry, Center on Reinventing Public Education July 2010 This working paper by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) discusses the diverse needs of three “portfolio” school districts – Denver, New York, and New Orleans – when it comes to communications and marketing practices.
Ohio’s faces an unprecedented $8 billion budget deficit next year. With 40 percent of state revenue invested in K-12 education, Ohio’s public schools will surely have to endure a fair share of the cuts. To his credit, Governor Strickland has taken action, asking the Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation to investigate options for cost-savings and efficiencies in education.
Ohio charter schools could face funding cuts of 10 percent, 15 percent, or more in the next biennial budget. But the state budget crisis also will give charters an opportunity to talk about the current financial inequities between them and district schools.
Heather Zavadsky, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)July 2010
Annie E. Casey FoundationJuly 2010The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released its annual Kids Count Data Book, an analysis of various indicators related to child/youth wellbeing, such as infant mortality rates, teen birth rates, and the number of teens not enrolled in high school.
That's one upshot of a fascinating new Education Next article out today. It examines whether respondents are right when they tell pollsters that their local schools are worthy of an A, B, C, D, or F grade.
Longtime Flypaper readers may remember the early days of the blog, when Liam Julian would send up five or six penetrating posts in a single 24-hour period.
So begins a mass e-mail from Organizing for America: When teachers demand job protections, generous benefits, and salary increases in the midst of a recession...well, that's expecting special treatment, indeed. Michael ?
At first I thought it was my imagination. Could the New York Times be covering education again?? I mean, really covering. Not just David Herszenhorn putting out regular education stories about Congress; or Sam Dillon and Tamar Lewin following Arne Duncan and Barack Obama to their million-and-one-speeches.
These days it seems some schools are trying everything to serve up some student gains.
?This is like the aftermath of the Civil War, with all the carpetbaggers and charlatans.'' ?Rudy Crew, Former New York City Schools Chancellor
Tony Judt died last week, at age 62. Readers of the New York Review of Books, especially, will miss his recurrent and beautiful essays, which had appeared in every issue of that publication since January. His final NYRB piece, ?Meritocrats,?