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We're in the midst of American Education Week, apparently. The Huffington Post tells us that this celebration (commemoration? lamentation?) was ?co-sponsored?
We're in the midst of American Education Week, apparently. The Huffington Post tells us that this celebration (commemoration? lamentation?) was ?co-sponsored?
This is the conclusion of David Figlio and Cassandra Hart in their new study of Florida's pioneering Tax Credit Scholarship Program (FTC) for Education Next.
While Mike has quickly filed the National Council for Accreditation of Teachers' report issued yesterday in the Unimpressive folder, I'm not so eager to negatively judge.
In order to fully understand the magnitude of claims that districts don't collaborate very well with charter schools, despite much clamor
For at least a week now, I've been receiving breathless emails from the folks promoting NCATE's new report that calls for teacher education to be ?turned upside down.? The message was clear: this is a big deal, a turning point, a ?seismic moment.?
What should you do to give your child the best education possible? If you're a parent in Cincinnati, Ohio, the answer may be to take a camping trip.
Have you made it through the nine circles of high school hell? Well, you'll be happy to know that more trouble awaits in college.
?The whole field of teacher education needs nothing less than a top-to-bottom restructuring.'' [In regard to new teacher prep report]
Review: A New Approach to Principal Preparation: Innovative Programs Share Their Practices and Lessons Learned
Pete Peters passed away last Thursday at age 97, after a long, fruitful, philanthropic, visionary and gutsy life. After a successful business career, he turned?at age 75!?to the ?war of ideas,?
Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, writes in the Guardian newspaper's Comment Is Free section of a corporate takeover of U.S.
James O'Keefe?you know, the young guy who dressed up like a pimp and, with his hidden camera, took down ACORN and then was arrested for trespassing in Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office?is back.
Waiting for ?Superman? is not the only education-reform documentary out there. Race to Nowhere, a film co-directed by Vicki Abeles and Jessica Congdon, posits not that America's schools can be too aimless, too lax, but that they can be too intense, too demanding.
Education Trust just awarded Dispelling the Myth trophies to four schools that prove, as the award name suggests, that you don't have to rehabilitate parents, clean up the neighborhood or solve society's problems before you can educate children.?
Rutgers education professor Bruce Baker thinks I'm getting all bubbly when I claim that there's been a spending bubble
Don't worry about the exodus of veteran officials and staffers from the NYC Department of Education,
?The national spread of parent trigger will also demonstrate how the campaign for choice in education?once a predominately conservative and Republican interest?has gone bipartisan.? David Feith, Assistant Editorial Features Editor, Wall Street Journal
Not long after the 2008 election, Mike Petrilli and I penned an ?open letter? to the new powers that be in Washington, suggesting an approach to ESEA/NCLB reauthorization that we termed ?reform realism.?
In Britain, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, hopes to centralize education spending through a plan to fund individual schools directly, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There's nothing like living in the media capital of the world ? that be the city otherwise known as New York.? And thanks to Mike Bloomberg, education in Gotham is hot (sorry Joe Williams, but I'm not sure ?sexy? is the right word). Even if school improvement there is all smoke and mirrors, it's front-page and it's fun.
Diane Ravitch took some parting shots at Joel Klein last week with a short post on the New York Review of Books' blog headlined ?New York's New School Czar.??
A report released today by the Grattan Institute of Australia finds that ?governments waste millions of dollars in education on expensive and ineffectual programs to reduce class sizes.? It continues:
Review: Putting Data into Practice: Lessons from New York City
Buon giorno, Fordhamites. Waiting for Friday? Just make sure not to fall asleep on the job.
?It's long been said that the new reformers deeply underestimate the complexity of the challenge facing educators. A mayor with near total control of the schools, importing a magazine publisher, with no significant previous exposure to public education, to run the largest school system in the country is a good way to bolster that critique.'' *
Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?
The Columbus City School District, Ohio's largest, is being targeted by an anti-discrimination group?among twelve districts nationwide?for allegedly not
State budgets are racing toward a budget cliff that is expected to be a cumulative $140 billion in fiscal year 2012.
With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA/NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches. Will the new Congress finally tackle this problem in 2011? Can it work with the Administration? For that matter, can it work with itself? The President murmurs about bipartisanship in education.