SES Tutoring Programs: An evaluation of the second year - Part one of a two part report
Chicago Public Schools, Office of Research, Evaluation, and AccountabilityAugust 2005
Chicago Public Schools, Office of Research, Evaluation, and AccountabilityAugust 2005
What do the Amistad Commission, the Holocaust Commission, and the Italian Commission have in common? They all want a piece of the public school curriculum.
Lynn Fielding, Nancy Kerr, and Paul Rosier, New Foundation Press2004
The conservative Tory party has long supported parental choice as the best method to elevate student achievement. This explains why the party has backed the City Academies Program launched by Labor's Tony Blair, which draws on community sponsors (business, faith-based, and individual) to replace decaying urban schools.
If ever an education fad showed dreadful timing, reaching its intellectual and political pinnacle just as lightning struck the mountaintop, it's "middle schoolism." The key year was 1989, when the middle school bible, an influential Carnegie-backed report named Turning Points, was published.
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's inflammatory introduction to William Damon's article in the Gadfly's September 8 issue is simply wrong. It said that "policymakers might reconsider whether being accredited by NCATE is evidence of quality or something far more sinister."
Move over Jean Georges. There's a new "it" destination for haute cuisine in the Big Apple, and it's a place where vocal food critics are decidedly personae non gratae. Get caught turning up your nose, and you just might have to go to the back of the line.
Philadelphia Superintendent Paul Vallas stands tall (and not only because his height exceeds 6'5"). In this age, school superintendents are hired, sacked and traded as capriciously as professional athletes, but Vallas has a knack for sticking with the home team, explains Alan Greenblatt in his excellent Governing Magazine profile.