When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
U.S. Department of EducationApril 2005
U.S. Department of EducationApril 2005
United States Department of Education, Office of Innovation and ImprovementMarch 2005
Maris A. Vinovskis, University of Chicago Press2005
Greg J. Duncan and Katherine A. Magnuson, The Future of Children, pp. 35-54Spring 2005
In the current Policy Review, David Davenport and Jeffrey Jones discuss the politics of literacy and its transformation from a local education issue to its current role in national public policy.
Two great charter school stories this week. In New York City, recent tests that showed increases in proficiency rates citywide (see here) also showed charter schools outscoring their traditional public school peers.
This week, the Washington Post looks at Finland's highly-ranked public school system, which "graduates nearly every young person from vocational or high school, and sends nearly half of them on to higher education," and gained national attention after a first place ranking on PISA (see here for m
The Washington Unified School District in Sacramento wants to attract high-quality teachers to work in its worst schools. So it plans to pay those teachers more. (Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed something similar statewide.) This is a rather pedestrian practice in the real (meaning, non-education) world. So, of course, the local union is outraged.
As everyone knows, last week the Yale Child Study Center issued a report indicating that pre-schoolers are three times more likely to be "expelled" from their programs than K-8 children are to be expelled from school.