Setting the state stage for improved teacher preparation
What's needed are smart policies: strong teacher professional standards, rigorous standards for and assessments of prep programs, and exacting rules on education certification
What's needed are smart policies: strong teacher professional standards, rigorous standards for and assessments of prep programs, and exacting rules on education certification
A first look at today's education news: A new Boston school-assignment plan that looks at both geography and quality faces a committee hearing today, debates rage in Alabama over a tax-credit-scholarship program and Common Core implementation, and more
A first look at today's education news: An NYC panel rejected a school-closure moratorium, the NSF issues a call for multidisciplinary research on education, and more
10 TV shows for kids that are educational and engaging
A first look at education news from this weekend and today: South Dakota authorizes school employees to carry guns while on the job, Massachusetts lawmakers consider removing the charter school cap in the lowest-performing districts, and more
Keeping up with education headlines
Online and blended learning alter some of the most basic characteristics of traditional schooling—and the ripples extend much, much farther
A first look at today's education news: 10 percent of Philly's public schools are slated to close, New York becomes the first state to drop the GED exam, and more
A first look at today's education news: The LA school board election results draw a range of reactions, NBC Nightly News will take on race-based goals in states' NCLB waiver plans, and more
Overcoming structural barriers to school reform
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A first look at today's education news: The struggle over whether to close a neighborhood high school in Philadelphia reflects struggles in many other school districts, a judge plans to rule whether Alabama's governor can sign into law a tax-credit-scholarship bill, and more
A first look at today's education news: Arne Duncan takes back his "pink-slips" assertion, a Louisiana judge throws out Gov. Jindal's education-reform package, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: the LA school-board election attracts national attention and dollars, three new states apply for NCLB waivers, and more
A first look at today's education news: NYC has picked out Common Core-aligned textbooks and materials, fact-checkers question Arne Duncan's sequestration claims, and more
A first look at today's education news: The Obama Administration predicts dire consequences for Title I and special education if sequestration is not stopped, CPS plans to get tough on underperforming charters, and more
Fascinating results from Florida’s natural experiment
A first look at today's education news: Mathematica Policy Research finds that KIPP charters produce substantial achievement gains, a union-run charter is granted a two-year reprieve despite mixed achievement results, and more
A first look at today's education news: English and U.S. History remain the most popular AP courses, high school dropouts cost $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue each year, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: Sequestration threatens 400 teacher and aide positions, CREDO finds that NYC's charters are quality, and more
A first look at today's education news: A new analysis of NAEP scores contains a plethora of information, Arne Duncan implies strongly that he may grant district-level NCLB waivers, and more
A first look at today's education news: Teacher job satisfaction is at a twenty-five-year low, one in five students took and passed an AP exam, and more
A government policy developed by mostly-benevolent leaders can do incalculable harm to those it was designed to help
When it a CRPE report on modernizing state education agencies, Andy is of two minds
A first look at today's education news: a federally mandated commission issues a "blueprint" that harkens back to 1972, charter expulsion rates are no higher than those in traditional schools overall, and more
A first look at the education headlines from this weekend and today: NYC's school-bus strike is over, a study contends that charters select for students, and more
Good news: full-time workers with children in poverty have already been helped!
A first look at today's education news: More concerns over the president's pre-K plans emerge, MOOC providers struggle to catch cheaters, and more