Skipping class or class skipping
Here's one way school districts can cut costs and increase student learning: embrace "grade skipping" for their most advanced pupils. So argue Laura Vanderkam and Richard Whitmire in a recent Ed Week commentary.
Here's one way school districts can cut costs and increase student learning: embrace "grade skipping" for their most advanced pupils. So argue Laura Vanderkam and Richard Whitmire in a recent Ed Week commentary.
Refuting the widely-held notion that charter schools cater almost exclusively to urban communities and minority students, the Columbus Dispatch reports that suburban and rural students are making up an increasing percentage of charter school rolls in the Buckeye State.
If you ask education experts to name cutting-edge spots for reform, they are likely to list Washington; New York; New Orleans; and maybe Denver. These are certainly the cities whose systems and superintendents have gotten the lion's share of press attention recently.
If America's elementary and high schools laid a sounder educational foundation for more of their students, America's colleges would be far more successful at constructing a solid and artful edifice atop it.
Gadfly was beset with a startling case of G 'n R letter confusion in last week's Recommended Reading, "A conflict of interest." The last name of the mayor of Los Angeles is Villaraigosa, not Villagairosa.
Excellent Ed Week article on Detroit schools Baltimore schools CEO thinks his district can become a national model
Everyone knows that Internet plagiarism is a big problem, but now it looks like it has infected the education policy world. To what do I refer? The Alliance for Excellent Education, which is always trying to rip off Fordham's best ideas!
The debate in education at the local and state level is far from placid (as Mike recently described it), and is sometimes incredibly toxic because the issues affect our children and our collective future.
I'm just back from vacation, and while Checker spent his holiday reading about how the founders brought our country together, I dug into how "The Big Sort
An op-ed by Cleveland State University education professor Karl Wheatley in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer argues that the pursuit of improved student achievement in our public schools is l
Jay Mathews on the amazing Rafe Esquith MA charter advocates aim to put cap lift on the ballot
The fifth video in our Fun Fact Friday! series looks at how information affects peoples' support for teacher pay increases. Don't miss our first , second , third and fourth videos.
Checker writes at Forbes.com on the role that both quality and quantity must play in American education.
During these tough economic times, one expects to hear news of budget shortfalls, such as Ohio's South-western school district's $5 million budget hole
It's August but some interesting stories are still out there... Ed Week's Klein with info on the Innovation Fund
Although the decentralized nature of public education in this country has its drawbacks--i.e.
When recently released graduation rate statistics were greeted by the business community with a hefty dose of skepticism, Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott decided to call on employers, and the Texas Association of Business in particular, to voluntarily stop hiring folks who haven't made it through that teenage rodeo--high school.
Marguerite Roza and Raegen MillerCenter for American ProgressJuly 2009
Christopher T. Cross, Taniesha A. Woods, and Heidi Schweingruber, eds.Center for Education, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences2009
When you get 30 out of 50 questions wrong on a test, you're supposed to fail. But not on the this year's American History portion of the New York State Regents Exam. According to Marc Epstein, the once-revered but now "hopelessly manipulated" Regents tests are plagued by a host of problems that make their results meaningless at best and fraudulent at worst--and the U.S.
Two editorials in the past week point to a widening realization across the political spectrum that U.S. teacher unions serve their members, not students. The Wall Street Journal illustrates this point with a piece about two episodes that clearly place union demands at odds with school quality.
Vacation gave me the opportunity to catch up with a bit of early American history, particularly the eventful last two decades of the 18th Century.
The New York State Regents shenanigans will be just one of the big issues with which newly minted State Chancellor of Education David Steiner needs to contend.
Earlier this summer, Terry wrote about the disconnect between DC and the states when it comes to education policy.????
Quotable "If we could Twitter Julius Caesar, we'd be good." --Terisa King, teacher at Richard Milburn Academy, talking about the need to make difficult language in literature more understandable for students.
Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic AdvisersJuly 2009
Celeste K. Carruthers, Urban Institute & National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ResearchJune 2009
President Obama put the graduation-rate debate front and center in March, when he noted that the nation's high-school dropout rate had tripled since the 1970s (see here). The media and education community scrambled to react to the president's claim.