Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
The Education TrustNovember 2005
The Education TrustNovember 2005
Donald R. McAdamsTeachers College PressJanuary 2006
American Institutes for ResearchNovember 2005
Michael J. Petrilli's editorial, "What if competition doesn't work?" garnered some response:From John Merrifield, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at San Antonio
It's better late than never; the thousands of children who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina are about to get federal assistance with their educations. While Congress took its time finalizing the package, the result is fair and reasonable. Importantly, it does not discriminate against parents who chose a non-public school for their displaced children.
Just before the holiday season, some 5,500 Birmingham middle school students received an early gift: the option to leave their failing schools. The city's school system was planning to offer students in its 17 low-performing middle schools voluntary tutoring, rather than the option of transferring to one of the district's better-performing schools. A community group complained to the U.S.
It's that time once again. Education Week has released its major (and as always, a bit unwieldy) annual Quality Counts report.
This past November, school violence again made headlines. The latest federal data was released in Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2005, which tallied and analyzed the incidence of theft, violent crime, and teacher victimization in 2003.
As if the NEA's pretending to care about helping schools and students wasn't bad enough, we now know it doesn't really care that much about helping teachers, either.