Even more big guns were brought out by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) to evaluate a small study that examined the effectiveness of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) in Tennessee. That study (actually a 4-page brief followed by 4 pages of data), by J.E.
The Supreme Court's decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris will not bring an end to the challenges faced by publicly funded voucher programs.
Despite being branded racist, sexist and irrelevant to contemporary students' lives, the so-called "Great Books" are making a great comeback in some unlikely places: community colleges with largely minority student bodies, homeless shelters, shelters for battered women, and Native American reservations, to name just a few.
While standards-based reform is now the law of the land, teachers often complain that they don't have the resources they need to make the reform strategy work.
No longer is cheating restricted to the jocks and 'slow' kids in the back of the room. Today's cheaters are tomorrow's Harvard freshmen-overachievers with too much to do and few qualms about finding the easiest way to produce a 5-page paper on King Lear.
The Los Angeles Unified School District is trying to offer more special education services at public schools rather than paying to send students to more expensive private schools, but parents are fighting the change.
By transferring funds from ineffective and low-priority labor, health and education programs, Congress could increase funding for special education by billions of dollars and thereby go a long way toward "full" federal funding of the program-which was defined as 40 percent of average per-pupil spending in the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
edited by M. Suzanne Donovan and Christopher T. Cross, National Research Council2002
National Center for Education StatisticsAugust 2002
Noel White, Cathy Ringstaff and Loretta Kelley, WestEd2002
Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education, California state legislature2002
Standard & Poor's School Evaluation ServicesSeptember 2002
Public AgendaSeptember 2002
In a piece for Tech Central Station, Joanne Jacobs recently profiled K12, former Education Secretary William Bennett's kindergarten through twelfth-grade online curriculum and "virtual school" program.
School choice may be addictive: the more of it people get, the more they seem to want. Don't be fooled by news accounts of scant demand for the public-school choice provision of NCLB. That's a consequence of too few decent options for kids combined with foot dragging by school systems. Look instead at Florida and Cleveland, where the appeal of vouchers is spreading.
A recent study by two researchers at the University of Chicago confirmed what previous technology studies have found: simply giving schools access to the Internet does not automatically translate to gains in student achievement.
Secretary of Education Rod Paige this week announced the formation of two new offices within the Education Department, the Office of Innovation and Improvement and the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Nina Shokraii Rees will leave her job as deputy assistant to Vice President Cheney to serve as deputy undersecretary in charge of the new Office of Innovation and Improvement.
Over the last few weeks, many have set out to answer the question: What lessons should we teach our children about the attacks of September 11th? Some have responded that we should emphasize tolerance, others have said patriotism, some have recommended that we teach about America's commitment to freedom, others have advised us to recognize America's history of cultural imperialism.
Reporter Larry Slonaker took a one year leave of absence from The Mercury News to fulfill a lifelong dream of teaching in a California public school (using an emergency teaching credential).
A long story in The Christian Science Monitor looks at where Rod Paige came from to try to understand how he became so single-minded about leaving no child behind. Reporter Amanda Paulson interviewed neighbors, family members and former colleagues for this colorful portrait of the Secretary of Education.
Last year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered its latest U.S. history assessment to approximately 29,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in schools across the country. NAEP's web site now offers the public the opportunity to test their knowledge of American history and see how their performance stacks up against students in the nationwide sample.
In Chattanooga, Tennessee, the mayor has developed a performance-pay plan whereby teachers and principals in struggling schools will earn big bonuses if their students make significant progress on state tests. Inspired by the plan, twelve top teachers have made the move to at-risk schools in the city.
Researchers from Teachers College and the University of Maryland sought to find out "what actually happens to children during an entire school day" so they asked elementary teachers to complete a time diary.
Special education is receiving a lot of attention these days. The federal program to provide special accommodations and services to students with disabilities has been critiqued by a Presidential Commission, by multiple authors of a Thomas B. Fordham Foundation/Progressive Policy Institute volume, and by both Democratic and Republican members of Congress.
Danny Cohen-Zada and Moshe Justman, National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityJuly 2002
Myron Lieberman, Cato InstituteAugust 28, 2002
Linda Darling-Hammond, Education Policy Analysis ArchivesSeptember 6, 2002
Ildiko Laczko-Kerr and David C. Berliner, Education Policy Analysis ArchivesSeptember 6, 2002
Richard Fry, The Pew Hispanic CenterSeptember 5, 2002
