Teacher Labor Market Imbalances in Massachusetts: A Review of the Evidence The New England Council
Kelly ScottCommission on High Technology Workforce Development August 14, 2001
Teacher Workload Survey: Interim Report
Kelly ScottDepartment for Education and Skills (UK) August 2001
Taking aim at AIMS
Diane RavitchMy older sister lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, for many years and her six children attended the public schools there. Her oldest child, my niece, took most of her public schooling in Texas and is now a teacher in Florida. The rest are graduates of the Arizona school system.
On the road with the KIPP Academy Orchestra
Can you think of anything more fun than chaperoning 76 junior high school kids on a bus trip across America?
Summer school in New York City
Diane RavitchI read the results of the summer school program in New York City with a growing sense of dismay, in part because so many kids gained so little from the experience, but also because I had predicted this would happen in a New York Times op-ed a year ago, when the school system rashly threatened to send 325,000 kids to summer school.
How can one science education system produce elites and illiterates?
The US has the finest scientists in the world but the rest of the population is abysmally ignorant of science. Why? Because science education in the US today exists as a kind of mining and sorting operation in which existing scientists search for diamonds in the rough who can be cut and polished into elite scientists, according to David Goodstein, a professor of physics at Caltech.
Is the GED as good as a high school degree?
Since 1975, the percentage of young adults who have gotten their diploma through the GED program has risen from less than 3 percent to 12 percent. Since the Census Bureau includes GED holders as high school completers, these statistics mask a steady rise in the nation's dropout rate. But does the GED measure up as a high school equivalence exam?
Charter Schools as laboratories for personnel policy experiments
Charter schools have come under criticism in some quarters for failing to realize one of the goals emphasized by proponents: that they would serve as laboratories in which novel ideas and methods could be tested and best practices identified for dissemination among traditional public schools. For example, a recent study of California charter schools concluded: "...
About Harold O. Levy
Diane RavitchIn recent weeks, the Chancellor of the New York City public school system has been heavily criticized, especially about cost overruns in school construction. The sharks have been circling, and the New York Times ran an editorial defending him (a sure sign that he is in big trouble). I'd like to say a few things in his behalf. Harold O.
Why new teachers leave (and what would make them stay)
Almost 75 percent of new teachers in the Cleveland Municipal School District either were considering leaving or were unsure whether they would stay, according to the results of a survey administered this spring.