A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom: Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas
The American Enterprise Institute, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the National Council on Teacher Quality October 2003
The American Enterprise Institute, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the National Council on Teacher Quality October 2003
Earlier this month, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams began to lobby for mayoral control over District schools - a move that has been tried in other big cities with mixed results.
We are heartened by news that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to dramatically expand the number of Gotham's charter schools from two dozen to more than 50.
AARP Knowledge Management, NRTA: AARP's Educator Community, and HarrisInteractive Inc.2003
Amanda K. Miller and Kathryn Chandler, National Center for Education StatisticsOctober 2003
Paul T. Hill and Kacey Guin, University of WashingtonEducation Policy Analysis ArchivesOctober 2003
The GOP is responding to allegations that No Child Left Behind is an "unfunded mandate" and that not enough federal dollars are being appropriated for it.
In the October 16 Gadfly, I cited a "sage observer" of the school choice scene who suggested that grassroots activism and the large sums being spent thereon are not actually influencing votes in the halls of Congress or state legislatures and that all this money and energy might better be deployed to elect different candidates rather than struggling to change minds of those alr
As reported earlier, Minnesota's swell new social studies standards are out for public comment [see http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?issue=114#1433]. Now you can read some of these comments and, alas, many are both harsh and moronic.
In 1970, on the reasonable assumption that teachers need to know something before they can teach it, California legislators passed the Ryan Act, mandating that people training to become teachers in the Golden State must earn a bachelor's degree before taking classes in pedagogy and suchlike.
The lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses today is not just an issue for conservatives. On Wednesday, four witnesses, three of them self-proclaimed liberals, talked with the Senate HELP Committee about the dangers of the one-sided education being provided at America's colleges and universities.