Advising Steiner
The New York State Regents shenanigans will be just one of the big issues with which newly minted State Chancellor of Education David Steiner needs to contend.
The New York State Regents shenanigans will be just one of the big issues with which newly minted State Chancellor of Education David Steiner needs to contend.
Earlier this summer, Terry wrote about the disconnect between DC and the states when it comes to education policy.????
Quotable "If we could Twitter Julius Caesar, we'd be good." --Terisa King, teacher at Richard Milburn Academy, talking about the need to make difficult language in literature more understandable for students.
Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic AdvisersJuly 2009
Celeste K. Carruthers, Urban Institute & National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education ResearchJune 2009
President Obama put the graduation-rate debate front and center in March, when he noted that the nation's high-school dropout rate had tripled since the 1970s (see here). The media and education community scrambled to react to the president's claim.
Ohio's budget problems and efforts to reformulate education policy reminded former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft of his days as the state's chief executive from 1999 to 2007. Like Gov. Ted Strickland, Taft had his own economic and education pains that included disagreements with members of the Ohio General Assembly.
In June 2009, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) released A New Model Law For Supporting The Growth of High-Quality Public Charter Schools.
The banks of the Ohio river don't initially seem to be a hotbed of education reform.??
Very good Post editorial on saving the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. Eduwonk on getting new duds and contributing to a good cause.
Why do unsubstantiated remedies-like smaller class sizes-gain such traction in the world of education? Rather than adhering to rigorous research standards, we resort to sweeping generalizations and sentimental stories about children's lives. Not that there is anything wrong with sentiment.
Quotable "It was one area [where] we didn't do enough and failed our children. I give myself an 'F' on that one. As a city, as a state, as a country, we need to protect our children and have them be safe." --Arne Duncan, on the violence in Chicago's public schools.