Online credit-recovery courses: good idea?
Here's a story about school districts in Texas offering online credit-recovery courses to any student who fails a class.
Here's a story about school districts in Texas offering online credit-recovery courses to any student who fails a class.
Though?New York City's academic achievement gains over the past eight years are still matters of dispute, on Joel Klein's watch the nation's largest city also turned out to be among?its most impressive when gauged by the kinds of structural and policy changes that comprise intelligent, promising?modern-day school reforms.?(New Orleans is the only real rival for that title, along with the Distri
A post on National Review's The Corner blog arouses a months-dormant education topic: vouchers in Washington, D.C.
The United States and India plan to increase their collaboration on higher education. Starting in 2011, for instance, the countries will hold annual summits on the topic.
Review: Education Finance and Policy: Special Issue: Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems
?What we're finding is that, to the extent charter schools do better than traditional schools, it is often attributable to ?creaming' or ?skimming,' excluding special education students, poor students on free-lunch programs, or limited English-speaking children.''
We've just announced that we'll hold an?event (here at Fordham) on Thursday, December 2, entitled ?Are Education Schools Amenable to Reform?? Should be an interesting and lively discussion, part of which will touch on our report, Cracks in the Ivory Tower?
Well, here are a few rather unique stories that caught my eye today. First, some parents are actually hiring ?homework helpers? to monitor their children and make sure the homework gets done. Now, I ?know many parents are stretched awfully thin these days. But hiring someone to say ?do your homework,?
A couple of fine new studies attest to the importance of quality instruction for preschoolers?and the dizzying (?stunning? says one research team) range of bad-to-excellent offerings in today's early childhood programs and centers. ?There is no evidence whatsoever,?
Teachers' unions are feeling the heat, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. Its author, Mitchell Landsberg, writes, ?Teachers unions have a well-deserved reputation for exercising political clout . . . Now, that clout is in question.?
Big Brother is watching?even on school buses. And if you're a brat, don't think you'll be cut any slack.
Once upon a time, centrist school reform had a single, overriding theme: accountability for results. This was apparent in the standards movement, with its focus on delineating clear expectations for all students, the achievement of which was to be measured by rigorous tests and linked to real consequences for adults.
?Those who aggressively wish to start firing larger numbers of teachers every year rely on an obvious but critical assumption (often unstated): that schools and districts can find better replacements? Matthew Di Carlo, Staff Writer, Shanker Blog
What's a school to do? Virginia's ultra-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology?the best high school in the land, says U.S.
New York City's public schools have a problem on their hands, and in their carpets and chairs: bedbugs.
The New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, is not pleased: Acting Education Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks has ?respectfully? declined to address its members at the group's annual convention.
What do Tuesday's election results portend for education? After much palaver in many quarters, I conclude that it's pretty simple: less money, and less reform from Washington. More responsibility shouldered by states and, perhaps, districts. And that equation isn't as bad as it may sound.
?If we can do that work together through education, it actually might help to lessen some of those tensions in other areas as well.'' [in reference to overhauling the nation's public education system in the post-election political landscape] Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
I realize this is a bit last minute, but tonight, our research director, Amber Winkler, is going to be a panelist at an interesting event that I wanted to flag. The topic is: ?Re-Imagining Urban Education:?How Do We Improve Our Schools??
EducationNews.org?interviewed Kathleen Porter-Magee, who of course, heads up our High Quality Standards Program here at Fordham. Among other things, Kathleen says that there are a lot of interventions that, when implemented properly, will improve student achievement.
Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education makes some predictions about Tuesday's implications for education in a new School of Thought column for Time:
The head of the White House Domestic Policy Council believes education is the issue that will unite the country. So, too, does the nation's secretary of education, Arne Duncan.
Are tax credit scholarship programs constitutional when the state tuition organization overseeing the donations funnels them to private schools of a particular religion?
?Will Andrew Cuomo defy the special interests that have long controlled Albany ? starting with the public-sector labor unions whose political arm endorsed him ? to deliver the kind of change he promised in his successful campaign for governor of New York??
Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat's democrat, bucked the nation's rightward drift and swept into New? York's governor's mansion (where he spent a good deal of his youth) with 62 percent of the votes on Tuesday.
The low-down on teacher pensions