The best of both worlds
The Ohio Department of Education recently spotlighted an innovative partnership between Dayton Public Schools and Sinclair Community College that has established a unique
The Ohio Department of Education recently spotlighted an innovative partnership between Dayton Public Schools and Sinclair Community College that has established a unique
I'm in Denver for the annual PIE-Net conference and had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the Common Standards effort with Mike Cohen, David Coleman, and
Quotable: "K-12 education has come under pressure that it has not seen in decades. The only bright note is the money provided under the ARRA." -Arturo Perez, fiscal analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures
Alex Johnston, CEO of ConnCAN an education reform organization in Connecticut, was recently appoin
ED official (rightly) lectures Maine on lack of charter law Russo on yesterday's??NAEP coverage
More evidence that the education components of the ARRA have been about jobs, jobs, jobs.
The Council on American Private Education (CAPE) has submitted superb public comments on the i3 fund.
Very big news out of New Haven, CT, though it's a story likely to be completely overlooked.
This NY Times article highlights some folks who took alternative routes to become teachers, leaving their primary careers or retirement to complete fast-track programs into the classroom. One of programs mentioned is the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE).
Quotable: "Everybody's using the [budget] numbers now to their own benefit, so they can blame somebody else for these teacher firings...My job is to make sure the city balances its budget. You can just blame Jack Evans." -D.C. Council member Jack ??Evans (D-Ward 2)
We're tweeting from the Partners in Education Network (PIE-NET) conference in Denver today. Follow our Twitter feed @educationgadfly or the conference hashtag #PIE09.
There's not much good news in today's National Assessment of Educational Progress results for mathematics. As Checker told the New York Times:
Sol Stern turns in an interesting post about the recent Time Magazine article on Catholic schools, providing some??very good examples from the Big Apple.
"I hope that this chapter has explained how a liberal Democratic legislator could conclude that choice, which in America is often associated with the political right, is essential to reform of education. In recent years, my party has suffered from a tendency to defend past ways of doing things."
A bill sponsored by State Senator Gary Cates (R- Butler County) would lessen the blow to otherwise high-performing districts that fail to make adequate academic progress with a few subgroups of students.
Republican George Allen and Democrat Paul Goldman (Virginians both) have teamed up to write an interesting piece in the New York Time s urging Congress to modify certain tax credit rules so that they include school renovations.
Excellent Ed Week articles on school boards and governors and education and use of ARRA funds
Checker, Terry, and Fordham board member David Driscoll offer up their opinions on school governance at the state and local levels over at Education Week
Checker writes on EducationNext's blog today about the inability of Title I and various versions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to bring about achievement gains for
If you missed last week's coverage of our new report on national education standards, check out this Washington Post article from today.
Quotable: "It's very exciting.?? This is the first accountability system for school meals in the history of the school system." -Jonathan Stein of Community Legal Services in Philadelphia
Expert reviewers appraise the Common Core drafts -- which outline college and career readiness standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and in math -- and also evaluate the reading/writing and math frameworks that undergird the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA). How strong are these well-known models?
New NY education commissioner Steiner fails first test? Wise cautions about "innovation" and the i3 from former IES head Whitehurst Good Toppo article??on Latino aspiration gap
ED just hosted a webinar on the i3, led by OII head Jim Shelton. Though the basic information in the presentation tracked faithfully with the priorities document (so nothing terribly new or different), some of the Q&A was quite interesting.
Our new report is discussed in two interesting articles---one in the Washington Post and one in
The Fordham Institute's newest report???-Stars By Which to Navigate? Scanning National and International Education Standards in 2009--reviews the ???Common Core???