The same thing, over and over
The title of Rick Hess's newish book can be applied to most any education policy issue, no sweat broken. Here is Sam Dillon in the New York Times, writing an article titled ?U.S. Urged to Raise Teachers' Status?
The title of Rick Hess's newish book can be applied to most any education policy issue, no sweat broken. Here is Sam Dillon in the New York Times, writing an article titled ?U.S. Urged to Raise Teachers' Status?
Don't worry too much if you haven't yet received a 'likely' letter from your top choice ivy; your rock star dad and
?In South Korea, teachers are known as ?nation builders,' and I think it's time we treated our teachers with the same level of respect.'' ' * -Barack Obama, President of the United States of America
Catherine Gewertz has a piece in this week's Education Week describing a New York City pilot program that has teachers analyzing the complexity of the texts they will be assigned in their classrooms. As you probably remember, text complexity features prominently in the Common Core standards.
The latest results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) garnered all the usual headlines about America's lackluster performance and the rise of competitor nations. And to be sure, the findings that America's 15-year-olds perform in the middle of the pack in both reading and math are disconcerting for a nation that considers itself an international leader, priding itself on its home-grown innovation, intellect, and opportunity. But that's not the entire story. Read on to learn more.
Today, in advance of this week's International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Fordham is releasing a little paper by Janie Scull and me, American Achievement in International Perspective.
Let kids run their own schools. This is the reduced-to-essence message of author Susan Engel's?contribution to?today's New York Times.
??children don't need another reform imposed on them. Instead, they need to be the authors of their own education.'' ' * -Susan Engle, Author of Red Flags or Red Herrings: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become
Robert Pondiscio over at Core Knowledge wrote a very thoughtful response to my post the other day.
So, I watched Katie Couric's 60 Minutes segment about The Equity Project (TEP) charter in New York City.
Much ink has been spilled in the past week over what the pay for performance experiment in New York City's public school system means. Roland Fryer's finding that the NYC pay scheme didn't improve student achievement does not imply that differentiated pay for teachers doesn't work, however.
The president said today he wants a No Child Left Behind rewrite before students' summer vacations end this September. And he wants other things, too.
I don't always agree with Marc Tucker but he knows a heckuva lot about how other countries organize their education systems; and it turns out that knowledge extends to how their teacher unions have evolved, what roles the unions play, and how their bargaining processes work. The differences set forth in his exceptionally interesting new paper?between the U.S.
The Ed Next book club podcast is back for round two.
?[Teachers] are America's heroes, and they should be recognized as such. Sadly, they aren't.'' * -Joel Klein, Former Chancellor of New York public schools
Over in the more feverish corners of the blogosphere, and sometimes even in saner locales, the Shanker Institute's call for "common content" curriculum to accompany the Common Core standards has triggered a panic attack.
I almost didn't get past the second sentence of Nicholas Kristof's brilliant NY Times essay this morning, as he opened with mention of Wisconsin and the ?pernicious fallacy? he?said the fracas there had generated: that teachers are over-paid.
Here's to hoping we can learn from other countries at the world education summit next week. Not only are more foreign-born men and women leading U.S.
In a provocative new school funding case, a federal court judge in Kansas City ruled against parents from the suburban Shawnee Mission school district who had wanted to increase property taxes above the state mandated limit
Don't miss Katie Couric's 60 Minutes report this Sunday on a New York City charter school that pays teachers lots of money but gives them no tenure.
Even if you can spell i-o-n-i-z-e, you might be attending a high school that is failing under NCLB.
?It's not enough to teach kids how to "read hard stuff." You have to show them how reading hard stuff in AP Literature is different than reading hard stuff in biology, European history, or trigonometry.'' * -Catherine Gewertz, Writer for Education Week
There continues to be a lot of discussion around the idea of creating a ?common? curriculum to supplement the Common Core State Standards. Robert Pondiscio over at Core Knowledge applauds the move, arguing that, while the CCSS are ?praiseworthy,?
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?Taking on the status quo is no easy task.'' * -Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin
So what else is new?? Isn't this just the statistic that confirms the message of Nation at Risk or the flat NAEP scores for the last forty years?