Arne Duncan wants to stretch the school dollar
Longtime Flypaper readers might remember the old Reform-o-Meter, in which I would rate the Obama Administration's efforts on school reform, from ice-cold to red-hot.
Longtime Flypaper readers might remember the old Reform-o-Meter, in which I would rate the Obama Administration's efforts on school reform, from ice-cold to red-hot.
?How do we go to a child, a student in the system and urge them to study and work hard and then say when the big jobs come up, if you don't go to the right cocktail party, you're not going to be considered.? * ?Patrick J. Sullivan, Member, Panel for Educational Policy, New York City Board of Education
We hear that the latest 12th grade National Assessment results (from 2009), being released tomorrow, will show small (but statistically significant) upticks over the past four years in both reading and math, both in ?scale scores? and in the percentages of young people deemed ?proficient.? In math, there's been a slow but persistent rise, of which these new results are part.
In a longish op-ed in the Telegram, John McTernan, a former political secretary to Tony Blair, writes that the UK's new, Tory secretary of state for education is not moving with sufficient vigor to save the nation's schools.
Oh, wait?did I write ?interesting?? Sorry. I meant ?idiotic.? Want to know what's wrong with America's schools? Teachers who write stuff like this (make sure not to miss the parts about his way-cool band!). Here are some choice bits (emphasis mine):
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