Organizational Improvement and Accountability: Lessons for Education from Other Sectors
Eric OsbergBrian Stecher and Sheila Nataraj Kirby, editorsRAND Education2004
Resisting the Tyranny of the Exception
Phil HandyOver the course of the past several years, education policy makers have increasingly looked to non-traditional education reforms as means both of correcting traditional public education inequities and of improving the state of education overall. In Florida, one of the first states to implement statewide accountability and reform measures, the results have been encouraging.
Self-serving civics lesson
We're all for civics in our schools but this version is outrageous. Next week, schools in the two big districts in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., Montgomery and Prince George's counties, will close two hours early so their students and teachers can attend a rally in the state capital to protest planned cuts in the state education budget.
Georgia's new standards are peachy
Holly RobinsonThe Georgia Performance Standards, the new curriculum proposed by the Department of Education for the public schools of Georgia, is a giant step forward for students and teachers in the Peachtree State.
Hard looks at NCLB
Two articles put us in mind of the old but trusty clich??, it's all about the kids. In the Washington Post, Bruce Fuller of UC-Berkeley offers a few suggestions for fixes to No Child Left Behind, some of which strike us as sensible.
Is Utah leaving NCLB Behind?
Since the adoption of No Child Left Behind two years ago, several states have threatened to reject federal Title I money so they can sidestep the new law's accountability provisions.