The Tradeoff Between Teacher Wages and Layoffs to Meet Budget Cuts
Marguerite RozaCenter on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonJuly 2009
Marguerite RozaCenter on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonJuly 2009
Echoing last week's Texan attempt to keep dropouts in school, currently-enrolled Florida students might think twice before taking that state's GED early exit.
After much squabbling and power grabbing, the New York state legislature has given mayoral control of New York City's schools back to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, thirty-eight days after the six-year old measure expired.
We predicted that Deborah Gist would bring her hard-knock reformer skills to Rhode Island, possibly manifesting in an overhaul of that state's timeworn, ineffectual teacher evaluation system. This seems to be exactly what she plans to do.
Here's one way school districts can cut costs and increase student learning: embrace "grade skipping" for their most advanced pupils. So argue Laura Vanderkam and Richard Whitmire in a recent Ed Week commentary.
Refuting the widely-held notion that charter schools cater almost exclusively to urban communities and minority students, the Columbus Dispatch reports that suburban and rural students are making up an increasing percentage of charter school rolls in the Buckeye State.
If you ask education experts to name cutting-edge spots for reform, they are likely to list Washington; New York; New Orleans; and maybe Denver. These are certainly the cities whose systems and superintendents have gotten the lion's share of press attention recently.
If America's elementary and high schools laid a sounder educational foundation for more of their students, America's colleges would be far more successful at constructing a solid and artful edifice atop it.
Gadfly was beset with a startling case of G 'n R letter confusion in last week's Recommended Reading, "A conflict of interest." The last name of the mayor of Los Angeles is Villaraigosa, not Villagairosa.
Excellent Ed Week article on Detroit schools Baltimore schools CEO thinks his district can become a national model