More Race to the Top drop-outs
A week ago, upon hearing that the Ohio Department of Education rejected the majority of districts' and charter schools' Race to the Top proposals, we pondered whether this would instigate a dropping-out effect among
A week ago, upon hearing that the Ohio Department of Education rejected the majority of districts' and charter schools' Race to the Top proposals, we pondered whether this would instigate a dropping-out effect among
American Institutes for Research (AIR)Gary W. PhillipsOctober 2010
Center for Reinventing Public EducationChristine CampbellNovember 2010
Much has been made lately of the idea of lengthening school days, but one school district in Marysville, Ohio, is thinking about shortening them.
Cassandra M.D. Hart & David FiglioEducation NextWinter 2010
Public ImpactJulie Kowal and Emily Ayscue HasselNovember 2010
Many reformers and funders have written off schools of education as beyond repair, and much of the current energy for teacher preparation is centered on non-traditional programs like Teach For America. But are schools of education more ready for reform than the conventional wisdom supposes?
Taxpayers invest a lot in their teachers, and good ones are worth every penny. Nothing affects student performance more than great teachers. Conversely, weak teachers can do irreparable damage to children and their learning. This alone should prompt Ohio to glean as much information as possible about teacher effectiveness.
Want to learn more about the schools Fordham authorizes? Check out these video profiles of each school.
Need a new way to advertise your business? Looks like school buses may soon be a viable option.
?Three in four students graduating from high school is nothing to celebrate in a country like ours.? * Andrew Rotherham, Co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is pushing lawmakers to pass during?Congress's lame-duck session the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, before the new year brings with it a new, more conservative?legislative body. The act in question would make legal residency a possibility for those immigrants who came, illegally, to the U.S.
The kids are rioting in Italy (the Italian protesters are calling today ?Block Everything Day?) and the UK, their fury fanned by cuts and changes to education.
An article in the New York Times Week in Review section tells the story of Ellis Middle School, where the teachers, after examining four years of data, discovered that the pupils earning As and Bs often did worse on end-of-year tests than those who habitually received Ds and
This morning the interim chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s public schools gave her first interview to National Public Radio's D.C. affiliate, WAMU.
?[But] political winds are shifting, with the growing likelihood that policy and procedures will change so as to catalyze more school choice.'' Bruno V. Manno, Senior Adviser for K-12 education, Walton Family Foundation
The former White House Chief of Staff and current candidate for mayor of the Windy City announced last week that he wanted Chicago to be the first city to adopt the ?Common Core standards.??
The official announcement comes on Monday, but this being New York, word had ?leaked? out on Friday.? ?Mayor and State Reach Deal on a Schools Chief,? is the front-page headline in this morning's Times.
If the NY Times has it right,?the Commissioner of Education for New York State ?may not have had a great Thanksgiving.
Whitney Tilson unveiled his new website today. ?It's still a work in process,? he says in his Thanksgiving email message announcing the debut, ?but I want to go public with it because the first major content on the site is my rebuttal of Diane Ravitch?
Monday's New York Times offered one of the more stimulating and thought-provoking articles to be found this holiday week.
Parents, there's finally a way to get your kids to eat their veggies: just have Michelle Obama over for dinner.?
?We already know that social acceptance is one of the primary concerns of adolescence. If achievement comes at a social cost, there are obviously going to be differences in teenagers' motivation to achieve.'' * Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Institute for Social Research Fellow at the University of Michigan
Review: A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools
The panel of experts to help Commissioner Steiner with his big decision has been convened; if Cathie Black doesn't get her waiver, mayoral control
?I think it's opened a whole new chapter on analyzing school performance.'' Texas State Representative Rob Eissler, on a new statistical model developed by the Education Resources Group
Checker has an op-ed in today's NY Post?it's entitled, Senseless ?certificate,' silly hurdle for schools boss. In it, he criticizes the NY state law requiring that school-system heads possess a ?superintendent's certificate.?