NY makes big play for RTT
New York just significantly increased its chances of winning in round two of Race to the Top.
New York just significantly increased its chances of winning in round two of Race to the Top.
An article by Stephan Thernstrom in the Wall Street Journal last week caught my eye. I respect Steve immensely (along with his wife Abigail) and found this paragraph intriguing, especially the sentence in bold:
Pop quiz: How do we become?internationally competitive???For starters, we should all?
On Wednesday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on the release of our new report, Needles in a Haystack, which highlights the achievements of eight high-performing, high-need urban schools in Ohio?and then draws lessons from the common denominators that make these school
Quotable: ?The reintegration idea is one we're going to hold on to. The way it's being executed is not.???Richard Nyankori, deputy chancellor for special education, District of Columbia Public Schools
As part of his ongoing attempt to save his hometown of Cleveland, comedian Drew Carey met with members of the city council yesterday to talk about his ideas for bettering the city.??
?There is no content-, value- or business-free education.? ? Jon W. Wiles, retired University of North Florida professor and textbook editor
Robin Lake, ed. Center on Reinventing Public Education 2010
Meaghan Batdorff, Larry Maloney, Jay May, Daniela Doyle, Bryan HasselBall State UniversityMay 2010
This fall, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Arizona’s thirteen-year-old tax credit scholarship program, under which credits (against state taxes) can be taken by those who donate to special “school tuition organizations” (STOs); these orgs then award scholarships for students to attend private schools of their choice.
Is there a place for for-profit organizations in public education? If i3 and higher ed are any indication, the Administration rejoinder seems to be no. Gadfly wonders, though, are we being distracted by tax status to the detriment of evaluating quality? Yes, for-profits may be tempted to cut corners to fatten the bottom line.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the education messiah will arrive on June 2, considering all the hype, angst, dither and pother that already surround next week’s promised unveiling of the final “common core” state standards (CCSS).
The final drafts of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math are slated to be released next week. While there has been some controversy in a handful of states over their adoption, the majority of states seem poised to adopt these standards quickly and with little fanfare.
Don't miss this week's Ohio Education Gadfly for coverage of all this and more.
I just got around to Monday's optimistically-titled NYT article, ?Glimmers of Hope for Grads.? (The web page header is ?Job Prospects Improve Slightly for Graduates? ? maybe that one ended up in the print version). In any event, one of the stats really stuck out to me:
?Without that, it doesn't really matter how much you spend on the car you are likely to crash.? ? Bret Schundler, New Jersey Education Commissioner, on appropriate student data tracking systems
Maryland's Race to the Top application fails to garner the support of nearly all of the state's unions and a number of districts, including its largest LEA, Montgomery County.
A recent flurry of news about Ohio charter schools makes a strong case for clearer lines of charter school accountability in the Buckeye State.
Last Saturday, the Columbus Dispatch ran an op-ed by Fordham Institute policy and research analyst Jamie Davies O’Leary about the growing trend of states incorporating teacher performance into evaluations.
Ohio offers multiple options for high-school students to earn free college credit, but these pathways remain a mystery to most families and high schoolers. KidsOhio, School Choice Ohio, and the Columbus Urban League have teamed up to produce a simple, informative brochure to help students and their families understand their options for “jumpstarting” their college careers.
Is school choice a genie you can put back into the bottle? The Dayton Public School District wants to try.
From Ball State University comes the latest report, Charter School Funding: Inequity Persists, which measures the extent to which states demonstrate funding fairness toward charter schools.
Annie E. Casey FoundationMay 2010
Reading scores for Cleveland’s fourth and eighth graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s (NAEP) Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) aren’t much better than the
Nobody is satisfied with the academic performance of the schools serving Ohio's poor, urban youngsters ? and nobody should be. In the 2008-09 school year, almost half of the quarter million students in the state's ?Big 8? cities attended schools rated ?D? or ?F? by the state.
There's an important new report out today confirming what Fordham first helped unearth in 2005, and what charter school supporters and leaders have long known: public charters receive less funding than do district schools, by a wide margin