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Quotable & notable
?Being up on technology is not considered a luxury or an option anymore.'' * ? Kristin Hayman, Teacher at the Haverford School in Haverford, PA.
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Three's company
With both Mike and Rick at the PIE-Network annual summit, the podcast got a little crazy (in a good way). Co-hosts Chris, Janie, and Daniela talk NCLB waivers, the efficacy of the MCAS, and the truth about delaying Kindergarten. Amber shows that high property taxes don't buy you an internationally competitive education and Chris trains a service animal. [powerpress]
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Education news nuggets
According to a PTSA email sent from Walter John High School in Montgomery County,
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Quotable & notable
?Where there is a great school leader, great students and great teachers will follow. If there isn't that person who can galvanize a team and bring folks together around a common vision, the school is not going to move forward.'' *
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Mike Petrilli talks High Flyers on Fox Business
In case you missed it, Mike beamed in from Seattle this morning to explai
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ObamaFlex: Too much tight, too light on loose
Follower's of Fordham's work know that for the better part of three years, we've been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call "Reform Realism"--a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in education.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Wrap-up: Major findings from Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
Last week, Fordham released a groundbreaking new study on high-achieving students, titled Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students.
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Education news nuggets
Students are pushing boundaries and bursting bubbles, but will they speak up about
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Quotable & notable
?Bullying causes kids to drop out of school, and violence in schools can cause permanent damage to a child's mind'' * ? Valerie Dixon, Hill District-based Coalition Against Violence
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Back to the future: Re-inventing local control
As much as it pains me every time I hear Checker Finn say it, school boards may indeed be irrelevant.?
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Quotable & notable
?You're not guaranteed anything with a diploma or a degree. But you're guaranteed a lot of misery without one.'' * ?Tito Jackson, Boston City Councilor
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Curriculum & Instruction
Learn early, learn often: School counts
You can read Sam Wang and Sandra Aaamodt's ?Delay Kindergarten at Your Child's Peril? essay in today's New York Times for what the two neuroscientists have to say about the development of young brains ?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Academic growth of high achievers
Fordham's new report released on Tuesday, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
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Quotable & notable
?We need to start healing. We need to get back to our classrooms.'' * ?Andy Coons, President of the Tacoma Education Association
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Curriculum & Instruction
The unilateral repeal of NCLB and the 2012 election
The Obama administration's new waiver plan (officially here, and covered extensively here,
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fallen high flyers don't fall far
Yesterday, we looked at the first finding of Fordham's new groundbreaking study, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
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New York leaps into the middle school trap
What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school ?grade configuration (generally, 6?8) is probably not the way to go was don
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Quotable & notable
?Do I go hat in hand trying to raise money, or find some politicians whose heads I can bang together?''* ? Shelli-Anne Couch, parent, trying to save her children's school library
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Tune in to Mike Petrilli on the Jim Bohannon Show
The Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli stopped by the nationally syndicated Jim Bohannon Show last night to talk about Fordham's newest study,
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Podcast: Go Bloo!
Mike and Rick raise the bar this week, discussing high achievers, Duncan's digital promise, and the textbook-company oligarchy. (Oh, and Rick confesses he has a reform-crush on L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa). Amber tackles minority-teacher retention and Chris dives head first into an NCAA lawsuit. [powerpress]
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Curriculum & Instruction
A majority of high-flying students remain that way
Yesterday, Fordham released a groundbreaking study examining the achievement of individual high-performing students?or ?high flyers??over time.
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Quotable & notable
?Widespread cheating ? whether it's steroids in baseball or false information in mortgage lending ? usually is more a symptom of broken systems than an outbreak of venality''* ? Rick Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
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Advanced Education
Valuing growth for all students
As part of the release of our new study, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Performance: Performance Trends of Top Students, we are hosting a forum for
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Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students
"Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," is the first study to examine the performance of America's highest-achieving children over time at the individual-student level. Produced in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, it finds that many high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over the years and often fail to improve their reading ability at the same rate as their average and below-average classmates. The study raises troubling questions: Is our obsession with closing achievement gaps and "leaving no child behind" coming at the expense of our "talented tenth" and America's future international competitiveness? Read on to learn more.
