With No Child Left Behind’s 2014 deadline for all students to reach proficiency looming on the horizon, and federal action to revamp the act seems unlikely anytime soon, state accountability systems, including Ohio’s, are ratcheting up expectations for public schools.
Bruce Baker, David Sciarra, Danielle FarrieSeptember 2010
How do you attract great principals to failing schools? One North Carolina district believes it has found the answer.
Now that Ohio and most other states have adopted Common Core’s English Language Arts and math standards, big-picture questions loom: who will be in charge of governing and “owning” these standards ten years down the road? Who will be in charge of implementation?
?What we teach in school should not be dependent on the political leanings of a governing body.? Rick Doll, Superintendent of Lawrence, Kansas school district
Our Mike Petrilli talks to EducationNews.org about what's next for common education standards. Check out the interview?. ?Amy Fagan
Vincent Gray, the next mayor of the nation's capital, talks education with Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Slate wants to know: How would you design the 21st-century classroom? And on Monday, November 8th, the online magazine will host a panel discussion on the topic at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
It's not just Rand Paul, who's running to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, who wants to abolish the federal Department of Education.
There has been much talk on this?blog and elsewhere about the movie Waiting For ?Superman' and its promotion of the idea that we know ?what works? in education.
Last week, the two national accreditation bodies for teacher preparation programs?NCATE and TEAC?voted to standardize their accreditation processes and ultimately merge into a single organizati
Pondiscio and Willingham team up to give?new You Tube education phenom ?Ken Robinson a?good going-over.? Don't miss. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
?Everybody who acts like we can tinker with the state monopoly on education and get radically better results is working to ensure that our present system survives to inflict its dysfunctional results on another generation of Americans who cannot afford its failures.''
. . . when Crash is on the teacher-training syllabus. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Kevin Carey, Education Sector's policy director, regularly advertises that he has very little if any respect for Charles Murray, the political scientist who famously coauthored The Bell Curve in 1994.
Education professors are in step with some current reform initiatives targeted at improving teacher quality, but not others, according to our new survey of teacher educators.?
Though the headline had it that New York State gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo ?Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions,? what he actually tells the New York Times is much kinder, gentler.?
Sure, it's selective, but this run-on-a-shoestring school for poor kids still gets the job done. ?Give me one good reason?okay, I'll take two or three?why this isn't it replicable and scalable?
Jason Brooks, research director at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, amplifies on the issues that his boss, Tom Carroll, raised with
Tom Carroll continues to chew on the question of RTTT and charter school independence, amplifying his
I wonder if research on absenteeism in elementary school takes a factor like this one into account.?
?When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary.
The National Education Association has just settled an eight-year-old lawsuit, filed against it in Washington State, which accused the union of illegally using money to ?support initiative campaigns.?
Charter schools ?were a punching bag? at a recent ?education forum? in Brooklyn. ?Charter schools are all about money,? said one parent in attendance. They are? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Paul Tough interviews Bill Gates for Parade magazine. ?Among the revelations: last year, while traveling for several months, Gates and his wife homeschooled their three school-age children.
