The Effects of NBPTS-Certified Teachers on Student Achievement
Douglas N. Harris and Tim R. SassNational Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ResearchMarch 2007
Douglas N. Harris and Tim R. SassNational Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ResearchMarch 2007
Elena RochaCenter for American ProgressAugust 2007
Two items in the Miller-McKeon NCLB reauthorization bill seem to be shoe-ins for making their way into federal law. The impetus behind both is to ensure that districts spend as much on schools serving poor students as they do on schools serving more affluent children.
People with clear, strong views usually attract critics as well as admirers, and Bill Evers is no exception.
Do you think of the achievement gap as an inner-city phenomenon? Think again. The Baltimore Sun reports that an alarming number of middle-class African-American students in suburban schools are having a difficult time passing the state's high school exit exams in algebra, English, biology, and government.
Fifteen years ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, then mayor of Neuilly, walked into a nursery school where a bomb-strapped man was holding students hostage and strolled out 30 minutes later with all the children.
Pray for Jonathan Kozol, who today enters the 70th day of his "partial fast" in protest over NCLB and, one assumes, to promote his new book. What is a "partial fast"?
Gadfly has been called a lot of things, but never a prophet--until now. It was a mere four years ago that we asked, "Why not religious charter schools?" The world's three great monotheistic religions heard us.