Mirror, mirror on the wall
According to the New York Times, cheating in schools is on the rise. It’s not among students, though, but teachers, who feel increasingly pressured by yearly testing cycles to raise student achievement.
According to the New York Times, cheating in schools is on the rise. It’s not among students, though, but teachers, who feel increasingly pressured by yearly testing cycles to raise student achievement.
Monday on Flypaper Terry examined charter school accountability and why the charter school bargain hasn't always worked out.
?A wholesale ban on books with religious content conflicts with established U.S. Supreme Court precedent.? ? David Cortman, Senior Legal Counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund
Denise Juneau had an interesting op-ed in last week's Missoulian regarding the Race to the Top. The key paragraph:
Facebook may not just be a distraction instead it could be keeping kids safe, according to the PTA.
?Indeed, given that the unemployment rate among health and education workers is only half that of the work force as a whole, you could argue that it's the teachers' turn to absorb some of the pain that they have been spared to date.? ? Charles Lane, Washington Post Editorial Writer
?It's ridiculous in that the people that make the decision on the cut scores are not political operatives.? ? Robert Scott, Education Commissioner
For all you die-hard futbol fans out there, you probably saw the World Cup special last Thursday prior to this year's kickoff. And if your timing was right, you saw this inspirational clip on the Ivory Coast Soccer Academy. If you missed it, take a minute to watch it. Not a fan? No excuses ?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been all over the news recently, exhibiting his ravenous desire to learn l
If you're following Race to the Top developments, make sure to read Michele McNeil's latest in Ed Week. It's a very good analysis of how second round applications differ from those in round one. There were interesting developments on union and district buy-in, side deals, and more.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers recently issued its latest annual report on the policies and practices of the nation's charter authorizers (see Kathryn's review
I just happened to be reading the latest Metlife Survey of the American Teacher, and came across this fascinating chart:
A few weeks ago the edu-documentary The Cartel had a showing here in Columbus.
Feel like walking out, as New York students recently did, on the National Standards debate?
Usually when we talk about the ?international? side of education, it's to bemoan that we're slipping behind our foreign competitors. PISA! TIMSS! Our students aren't learning any math or science! I'm kind of bored with this line of reasoning.
?Educators feel that their schools' reputation, their livelihoods, their psychic meaning in life is at stake.? ? Robert Schaeffer, Public Education Director for FairTest, a non-profit group critical of standardized testing
Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Mike appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to talk about districts cutting the school week in the face of budget shortfalls. What do you think?
The Archdiocese of Baltimore, which has lost 40 percent of its schools in the last decade, has a new plan for stopping the decline. It includes some good ideas and some straighter-than-usual talk about quality. ?Andy Smarick
Earlier this month, Mathematica released a study on the results of a TAP program underway in Chicago (Amber writes it up here).
Tuesday, the Cleveland Teachers Union (CTU) filed suit against the district for requiring dismissed teachers to reapply for jobs, as it breaches their contract.
Want to hear Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli's response to Jay P. Greene's blog bullying about national standards?
Check out the all new Gadfly here, and don't miss this Short Review by Fordham's research director Amber. She takes a look at the TAP merit pay program in Chicago, one of the federally-funded teacher performance schemes. Unfortunately, not much doing in Chi-Town, or anywhere else for that matter.
?Early childhood education is one of the most effective ways to close the achievement gap, which we know occurs well before kindergarten.? ? Amy O'Leary, Director of the Early Education for All Campaign
Steven Glazerman and Allison SeifullahMathematica Policy ResearchMay 2010
Bryan Hassel and Emily HasselPublic ImpactJune 2010
David N. Figlio and Cassandra M.D. HartNational Bureau of Economic ResearchJune 2010
How serious are we about preparing everyone for college? This is perhaps the most widely avoided question in American education. It’s politically dangerous. Merely asking it seems to raise doubts about our core belief in equal opportunity. And it sounds crabby, cranky, arrogant, and classist.
English is a complicated and often counterintuitive language. “I” before “e” except after “c” and when it sounds like “a,” as in neighbor and weigh? A group of phonetics die-hards agree.
Private school enrollments tend to ebb and flow with the economy. And so fall 2009 private school numbers expectedly dipped in response to 2008’s economic downturn. But fall 2010 might be another story.