Education News Nuggets
There seems to be quite a blame game going on in education these days: see here and here.
There seems to be quite a blame game going on in education these days: see here and here.
This new study, Are Bad Schools Immortal? The Scarcity of Turnarounds and Shutdowns in Both Charter and District Sectors from the Thomas B.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that a higher percentage than usual of New York City teachers will not receive tenure this year ?as the city moves to make more difficult the path to lifetime employment.?
This morning's Times has a nice profile of Shael Polakow-Suransky, New York City School's new #2 (defined, oddly enough,?as ?the educational counterpart to Cathleen?P. Black, the businesswoman chancellor?). ? Among the highlights,
Low on cash for the holidays? You can always save by eating cheese sandwiches.
?Attracting good talent is a challenge in the best of circumstances. And this is not the best of circumstances.'' [In reference to Atlanta schools] * Mike Casserly, Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools
At Commentary's blog, Contentions, Peter Wehner directs readers to a new study (from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values) that is, according to Wehner, ?both somewhat encouraging and quite ala
?Kids know effective teaching when they experience it.? So says Harvard's Ronald Ferguson, a researcher who designed questionnaires that were given to thousands of students across the nation and which asked those students to evaluate their teachers.
Americans may overwhelmingly believe that education is vitally important to the nation's economic success. But that doesn't mean they're willing to keep footing the bill for it.
For those of you anxious to hear the decision on whether NYC's Department of Education will be required to release teacher performance data, kee
?Things we've intuitively known, or thought about, or wished for about teacher effectiveness?there's some empirical evidence that they are valid.? Vicki Phillips, Director of Education Programs, Gates Foundation
???Things we've intuitively known, or thought about, or wished for about teacher effectiveness???there's some empirical evidence that they are valid.??? Vicki Phillips, Director of Education Programs, Gates Foundation
I recently finished reading Frederick M. Hess's new-ish book, The Same Thing Over and Over, and found myself envisioning education policy as a bar full of drunks.
Florida's governor-elect, Rick Scott, was in my hometown on Thursday, speaking to a crowd at an evangelical church, when, according to St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus, he said this:
This week the Cleveland Plain Dealer announced that the district and teachers union will begin working on a new teacher evaluation that will include ?evidence of student learning.?
Last summer it was the cheating scandal that ?haunts? Atlanta's schools chief, as reports of widespread efforts by teachers to change test scores mounted.
Perhaps you've noticed, but I haven't been blogging as much as usual lately. That's because I've started tweeting, by which I mean I've started wasting untold hours following thousands of mini-messages on Twitter every day, along with sending dozens of my own.
The Modern Language Association has a new report out?and it looks like interest in
?Rather than becoming more productive, the opposite has happened in education: over the last 30 years, public schools have focused on strategies that decrease productivity.'' Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner at Bellwether Education
Do we care? The New York Times is reporting that Mayor Mike asked Harlem education guru Geoffrey Canada to be his Chancellor?before he picked publishing executive Cathie Black.
It wouldn't be New York if it weren't a bit of a media slugfest.?
In a case the NY Times said would ?propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,?
Front line lessons on character and education
TFA takes the cake!
Barely one third of students are prepared for what's next