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Weekend reading
You won't want to miss this week's Gadfly, which is up now over on our website. But perhaps you are also looking for a good book to enjoy with your Sunday coffee.
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Common Core Standards video from Cato Institute
Cato Institute hosted a lively discussion of the Common Core State Standards this week, and the video of that event is now up on their website. There's some good back-and-forth.
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PEPG and performance pay
I spent the last two days at a top-notch conference on teacher performance pay hosted by the Kennedy School's Program on Education Policy and Governance.
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Teacher, can you spare a dime?
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did the country a big favor yesterday by announcing his intention to freeze the salaries of all of his teachers and administrators?and in one fell swoop eliminate the need to lay off any instructors. (4,600 jobs had been at risk.) Lo and behold, firing teachers isn't the only response to the funding crisis.
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education news nuggets
Brace yourself for multiple freakouts over the Common Core Standards?the new revision is no longer a
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quotable and notable
?All decisions as to what to offer a family are being made on a policy basis by administrators who don't know that child...? ? Valerie Vanaman, attorney, specialist in representing disabled children
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Think Tank Research Quality: Lessons for Policymakers, the Media, and the Public
Kevin G. Welner, Patricia H. Hinchey, Alex Molnar, and Don Weitzman, eds.Think Tank Review Project2010
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The AP Arms Race: Is Grade-Weighting to Blame?
Kristin KlopfensteinUniversity of Texas Dallas, Texas School Project2010
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Common Core State Standards: Better than ever
Yesterday marked the release of the final “Common Core” standards&—symbolically occurring in a state capital (Atlanta) rather than Washington, D.C.
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Deal or no deal?
New York charter advocates celebrated victory this week over the raising of “the cap”: 260 additional schools may now open in the Empire State. But the higher ceiling came with strings.
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Distractions are jinzhi!
We often lament the distractions of the Internet for American students. In China, they do something about it. As the country gears up for its annual college entrance exam on June 7 and 8, the provincial government in central China has shut down all of the area’s Internet cafes to “encourage” students to study.
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After RTT comes the power of states
On May 26, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law a sweeping education reform bill that lifts the cap on high-performing charter schools, requires every district in the state to evaluate teachers based on their students’ achievement, and creates the state’s first alternative pathway to certification for principals.
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An education in the politics of special ed
Richard Nyankori, D.C.’s top special education official, has found himself at the confluence of red tape, angry parents, budget cuts, and education’s sacred cow.
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Wall Street gets bullish on charter schools
JP Morgan is the latest member of the banking world to rally behind the charter school movement. It recently announced a well-articulated $325 million initiative to help build, expand, and renovate facilities of high-performing charter schools.
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Common Core State Standards: Better than ever
Today marks the release of the final ?Common Core? standards?symbolically occurring in a state capital (Atlanta) rather than Washington, D.C.
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quotable and notable
?What makes any new school different is that the people who are in the school opt to be there.? ? Ms. Haskins, opened the Brooklyn Brownstone School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2008
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Discussing national standards
The CATO Institute will host a forum tomorrow (at noon) to discuss national education standards and whether or not they'll improve educational outcomes.
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?It's a real nice idea if we're swimming in money, but we're drowning in debt.? ? Sean Elsbernd, San Francisco Supervisor
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NY makes big play for RTT
New York just significantly increased its chances of winning in round two of Race to the Top.
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Do black single-parent families explain the achievement gap?
An article by Stephan Thernstrom in the Wall Street Journal last week caught my eye. I respect Steve immensely (along with his wife Abigail) and found this paragraph intriguing, especially the sentence in bold:
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education news nuggets
Pop quiz: How do we become?internationally competitive???For starters, we should all?
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Needles report relevant to Cleveland transformation
On Wednesday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on the release of our new report, Needles in a Haystack, which highlights the achievements of eight high-performing, high-need urban schools in Ohio?and then draws lessons from the common denominators that make these school
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quotable and notable
Quotable: ?The reintegration idea is one we're going to hold on to. The way it's being executed is not.???Richard Nyankori, deputy chancellor for special education, District of Columbia Public Schools
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Weighted-student funding's funniest fan?
As part of his ongoing attempt to save his hometown of Cleveland, comedian Drew Carey met with members of the city council yesterday to talk about his ideas for bettering the city.??
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