State Test Score Trends Through 2007-2008, Part 5: Are There Differences in Achievement Between Boys and Girls?
Naomi and Victor ChudowskyCenter on Education PolicyMarch 2010
Naomi and Victor ChudowskyCenter on Education PolicyMarch 2010
National Center for Education StatisticsMarch 2010
While cash-strapped sport teams and PTAs across the country have lamented recent financial losses from bake sale bans for the sake of our children’s waistlines, no one has argued against the efficacy of improving student diets. Until now.
What do two mediocre charter schools on opposite coasts have in common? They’re both slated to close come June on account of low enrollment, financial concerns, and subpar test scores. Justice Charter High, a Los Angeles Green Dot campus, and New Covenant School in Albany have been on thin ice in recent years, but they’ve both made great gains in and out of the classroom.
If you’ve been wondering how the just-passed health care reform bill will affect your own coverage, consider the coverage of our nation’s teachers. Many enjoy the incredibly cushy Cadillac kind, courtesy of indefatigable unions and generous school boards.
We’re one step closer. “Common” standards for U.S. schools are knocking at the door. They won’t likely make it all the way in but even a partial entry is looking like it might do some good.
Enough is enough. At least that’s what the tiny school district of the “no-stoplight” town of Congress, AZ is saying to four women who have bombarded it with over 100 public records requests in eight years. The purpose of this paperwork?
It's not unusual for corporate foundations to invest in education, but increasingly these generally conservative organizations are teaming with reform-oriented groups. The??Credit Suisse Americas Foundation just announced a new initiative that will make grants in two of the most important ed reform areas:
There's a debate brewing about how much???if at all???great standards contribute to education reform. This week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial saying that they are not as important to student achievement as universal choice.
Mike Petrilli, I don't think you write ???poppycock'. I don't know why people are so mean.
"Do we have to have charter schools? We tried, we failed. I don't want to start a race 8 percent behind the other states." ??? Joseph Morton, Alabama state superintendent
Kudos to Scott Stephens for being recognized by the Education Writers Association for his terrific reporting work in 2009 for Catalyst Ohio!
For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) “common” education standards to strengthen U.S. education.
Alliance for Excellent EducationBob Wise & Robert RothmanFebruary 2010
Almost since the contest was announced,????those of us working in Ohio have????wondered whether Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top decisions could really be politics-free.
In our last issue, Gadfly erroneously reported that GE Lighting is based in Cincinnati, when any student of Ohio history should know that the Lighting & Electrical Institute is housed at the
Education Next featured TBFI president Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Columbus Collegiate Academy, one of six charter schools authorized by the Thomas B.
Ohio has positioned itself to be among the first states to adopt the “common” academic content standards, created through a state-led process coordinated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association Center fo
When asked how he would go about improving Pittsburgh, Frank Lloyd Wright offered a simple solution: “Abandon it.” But that Price-is-Right hosting, Michael Moore look-a-like (minus the baseball hat and hammer-and-sickle) Drew Carey won’t drop the commitment to his hometown Cleveland that easily.
National Bureau of Economic ResearchJ. Angrist, S. Dynarski, T. Kane, P. Pathak, & C. WaltersFebruary 2010
The Fordham Institute's expert reviewers have analyzed the draft Common Core K-12 education standards (made public on March 10) according to rigorous criteria. Their analyses lead to a grade of A- for the draft mathematics standards and B for those in English language arts. Read on to find out more.
The Senate version of the health care bill is now law, and as this New York Times blog post explains, a few key provisions go into effect right away.
A sense of resignation has set in as I've gone through the details of state RTT applications. States, including the finalists, are not proposing the bold, game-changing reforms this program deserves. Massachusetts is just the latest finalist with a timid approach and plenty of delayed decisions.
Who said the decline of the mainstream media would be deleterious to healthy, informed debate? (Moreover, who said it was healthy and informed to begin with?)
Anyone who's been following the debate over national standards knows that two weeks ago, the National Governors Association (NGA) together with the Council of Chief State Schools Officers (CCSSO) released the much-anticipated public draft of the K-12 math and English language arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards.[quote]
That's the charge from George Will, who picks up on Joshua Dunn's recent Flypaper post to give the Secretary of Education a hard time for crusading for "civil rights"
The Wall Street Journal penned a convoluted editorial this morning on national standards.
Important and worrisome Ed Week article on Secretary Duncan's speech to the Council of the Great City Schools. Urban superintendents want even more flexibility on turnaround rules. That's bad news. Rather than closures and new starts, here's more reason to believe we're going to see more of the meek and ultimately unsuccessful interventions of the past.
The section on teachers in Louisiana's RTT application is considerably weaker than I expected. This should bring us pause since LA is not only a finalist but also, in the conventional wisdom, among the??front-runners.