Keeping Middle Grades Students on the Path to Success in High School
Marilyn Thomas and Crystal CollinsSouthern Regional Education Board2009
Marilyn Thomas and Crystal CollinsSouthern Regional Education Board2009
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development2009
Surprise! TFA is serious about teacher quality. Not only do they recruit and retain the most qualified applicants, but they also boast a professional development program that puts most to shame.
In last week's Recommended Reading Dangerously confusing (September 10, 2009), we blamed the disingenuous school report cards issued by New York City on the poor psychometrics of the state Regents tests.
A current proposal from the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (SRC) would force charter schools that want to increase their enrollments or reconfigure their grade levels to do so as part of the contract renewal process (which occurs every five years), instead of through a separate, less-regulated process of amendment. Under the new rules, charters seeking to expand would need to submit
What kind of education would one need to make sense of the current health-care debate? As America rethinks its academic standards and international competitiveness, this is not a bad time to ask what U.S.
Who were Julius Caesar, Leif Ericsson, and Charles Darwin? Know the answer? Well that’s because you, dear reader, are not a recent or current product of British schools—state, independent, or otherwise--where the Romans, Vikings, and Victorians, amongst others, can be skipped in history class so that students have time to learn how to use social networking sites like Twitter.
Many years hence, as the students of Cushing Academy hold their faces close to their electronic book readers, they probably won't even know of those distant days of yore when people discovered literature by browsing shelves.
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One of the hottest slogans in education today is "21st Century Skills." Though it certainly sounds compelling--who could be against teaching our students the skills they need in this budding century?--this is much more than a feel-good, everyone-jump-onboard valence issue.
I am in no way keen on the "research" produced by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) but I have to admit that they have raised an important issue in their latest report that merits attention--that is, if you can stomach the rhetoric it's clothed in.
Just wanted to echo/add to what Andy wrote earlier. Led by Common Core, nearly 30 leaders (including Checker) signed onto a statement today that strongly criticizes the program put forth to states by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, known as P21.