The New Schools Handbook
Robin Lake, Abigail Winger and Jeff Petty, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonMay 2002
Robin Lake, Abigail Winger and Jeff Petty, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonMay 2002
United States General Accounting OfficeSeptember 2002
Valerie E. Lee and David Burkam, Economic Policy InstituteSeptember 2002
Lance T. Izumi with K. Gwynne Coburn and Matt Cox, Pacific Research InstituteSeptember 2002
Michael DeArmond, Sara Taggart and Paul Hill, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonMay 2002
Michael deCourcy Hinds, Carnegie Corporation of New York2002
Christopher Barnes, Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan InstituteSeptember 2002
In a recent meeting with reporters in Detroit, Education Secretary Rod Paige spoke heresy to the education establishment. He asserted that the "teacher shortage" is "contrived" and that many individuals who would make good teachers are shut out by the current system. He's right.For more than a decade, educational Cassandras have been warning that the U.S.
I am writing in response to Chester Finn's unfair characterization of the article "On the Spirit of Patriotism" written by Michalinos Zembylas and Megan Boler and published in the Teachers College Record (TCR) online edition. [See http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=44#642 for Finn's editorial.
Several states - Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia included - recently announced that they were not yet required to offer supplemental services like tutoring to students in failing schools. Not so, says the U.S.
Reporter Joshua Benton describes how principal Nancy Hambrick turned around a failing middle school in Texas in "Principal demands perfection, gets it," The Dallas Morning News, September 29, 2002. But it can work the other way, too.
While Education Secretary Rod Paige and the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future battle over whether traditional teacher education and state certification guarantee teacher quality, Martin Haberman contends that both sides are missing the point.
Educational psychologists report a big increase in demand by middle class parents for diagnoses that will allow their teenage sons and daughters to receive extra time to take the SAT, particularly in well-off communities, now that the College Board is no longer "flagging" the scores of students who take the test under special conditions.
While most special ed experts believe that including learning disabled children in regular classrooms is ideal, try telling that to parents whose kids attend the Lab School in Washington, DC. Each year, 400 applicants vie for 40 spots at this privately operated school, where all 310 students suffer from moderate to severe learning disabilities.
This week's Chronicle of Philanthropy features a trio of articles by Meg Sommerfeld on charter schools. "Nonprofit Lesson Plans" looks at charters launched by charities such as the YMCA, and some of the rewards and challenges for those schools and charities.