Education news nuggets
Will pretty bulletin boards be the death of education? Let's get some teachers trained like doctors to revive the patient.
Will pretty bulletin boards be the death of education? Let's get some teachers trained like doctors to revive the patient.
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Mike appeared in two similar news stories on NBC Nightly News last night and on the Today show this morning. Watch the clips below.
The school board of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District voted this week to lay off 10 percent of its 8,000 employees, including 545 teachers.?? Particularly hard hit will be the district's ten ???innovation schools.????? Reported the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Here's more (a lot more) from Whitney Tilson, continuing our ongoing debate about the Education Next forum on teacher equity.
Student Assessment Division, Department of Assessment, Accountability, and Data QualityTexas Education AgencyMarch/April 2010
What will the Education Department’s current $350 million competition to develop new multi-state assessments actually yield? One new “national test”? Two? A bunch? Will they be any good?
Marguerite RozaUrban Institute Press, 2010
Matthew Chingos and Martin West Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University March 2010
Frederick M. HessASCD2010
What do you do when you’ve got a surplus in one area, and a shortage in another? California’s got an answer. Forced to pink-slip 23,000 regular education teachers this year due to budget shortfalls, the state plans on retraining some of them to help ease the shortage in special education classrooms.
Will alternative certification finally be alternative? In New York State, at least, the answer is yes.
The feds want serious change for their “School Improvement Grants” bucks, but several of Iowa’s thirty-five lowest-rated schools aren’t buying it. The state received $18.7 million in turnaround funds to help the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools, which could win $50,000 to $2 million each.
Bullies have been stealing other students’ lunch money for years. But students at one New York elementary school face a new adversary: their teacher.
Like districts nationwide, our hometown Dayton Public Schools is making tough decisions in order to close a yawning budget gap. And it's hit upon a smart idea that's a two-fer: it will save almost $1 million a year, and it addresses the childhood obesity epidemic.
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My wife Luana, who's Brazilian, enrolled Monday in Kaplan's intensive English as Second Language (ESL) program, at their campus here on M St. in DC. Yesterday, when she arrived for her first real class, the teacher was maintaining the classroom in complete silence. No hello, no introductions, no icebreaker games, just silence.
We've got to do more than simply have the illusion of good teaching (and this is something we can't outsource).
"This is one of the criteria to be in the Race to the Top game. So, if we're going to be in the game, let's be in the game." ??? Fran Millar, Georgia House Education Committee Vice Chair
?This is one of the criteria to be in the Race to the Top game. So, if we're going to be in the game, let's be in the game.? ? Fran Millar, Georgia House Education Committee Vice Chair
Ohio has pledged a minimum funding level to districts and charter schools that sign onto the state's round-two RttT application in an effort to increase buy in from LEAs.
Even if it's not statewide, there's an example of a functional Florida local education agency (LEA) already using merit pay.
Even if it's not statewide, there's an example of a functional Florida local education agency (LEA) already using merit pay.
Seldom do stakeholder committees convened by state departments of education put forward truly bold recommendations. Instead, their reports are too often full of requests for more money and status quo-friendly ???reforms.???
Seldom do stakeholder committees convened by state departments of education put forward truly bold recommendations. Instead, their reports are too often full of requests for more money and status quo-friendly ?reforms.?
Very important legal??developments in Detroit Charters, special education, and New Orleans
Very important legal?developments in Detroit Charters, special education, and New Orleans
"In a lot of respects, what the Regents have done is the ghost of Christmas future. Education schools are on the verge of losing their franchise." ??? Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund
?In a lot of respects, what the Regents have done is the ghost of Christmas future. Education schools are on the verge of losing their franchise.? ? Arthur Levine, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund