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Education News Nuggets
A cheating epidemic has hit our schools! Maybe it's time to gear up and end this problem.
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A guys walks into a bar and the bartender says, ?What'll it be, buddy??
One Alison Stachniak, teacher wannabe, doesn't walk into a bar, but she tells an interesting, if long, story in Teacher about trying to find a job in Chicago and concluding that?Eureka!??charter sc
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Accolades, grant dollars and high-flying charters bypass the Buckeye State
Congratulations to the high-performing charter schools that received a portion of the $50 million in competitive grants to replicate and expand, as announced
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College is a publishing phenomenon. Since its release earlier this year, it has hovered within or near the top 100 books on Amazon.com.
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We Won!
This is what I was trying to say in that last post?sort of. Thanks, Jay Greene. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Ed professors remain in the clouds. But, their views are starting to change.
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It's raining anchormen and education reformers
A deluge at Education Nation can't stop IBM's innovation
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Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching
A valuable study that asks a worthless question
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Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform, 16th Edition
Rankings based on reform-friendliness? Sounds familiar
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Contest Time
Our little school district just got word that our share of the RttT pie (nearly $700 million in NY) will be $55,000 per year for?four years. ?Wow! But here's the challenge?and it is real and it applies just as much to Cory Booker with his $100 million as to us:?How do we spend it?
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Meyer's Musings
While reading Liam's musings this morning??armies of grown-ups who had gone gaga for a certain presidential candidate's mellifluous vapidities about change and hope?
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Confessions of a battered idealist school reformer
In reading Liam's post about idealists being chewed up by the DC culture of inertia and status quo I couldn't help but think of the brilliant Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, ???Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.???
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Quotable & Notable
?If you're failing my children, get out of the way.'' ?Cory A. Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
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Did you get a raise for not dying this summer?
That question, and others, is posed on 25 billboards throughout greater Cincinnati.
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Data from three education surveys converge around the importance of effective teaching
If you’re clamoring to know what Americans think about myriad K-12 education issues, then you’ve just struck gold. Three recent surveys provide a plethora of opinion data on issues ranging from charter schools and teachers unions, to taxpayer-funded increases in education spending and hot-button issues like teacher evaluations.
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Stuck in the Middle: Impacts of Grade Configuration in Public Schools
Jonah E. Rockoff & Benjamin B. Lockwood Columbia Business SchoolFall 2010
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High-performing, high-poverty schools
Our recent study, Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from high-performing, high-need urban schools, lifted up the successes of, and tried to extrapolate lessons from, urban schools that serve large numbers of poor kids well. But poverty exists beyond city borders.
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If there were a button, we'd "like" Facebook CEO's investment in Newark schools
Social networking and school reform. An unlikely pair? Not any more, given Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent donation of $100 million to struggling public schools in Newark, New Jersey. Check out the New York Times’ coverage of the announcement here.
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New Fordham report: Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Today Fordham released results from a national survey of education school professors in the US.
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Bias, faulty research cloud valid message in charter school report
Last week, Policy Matters Ohio released a report on charter school accountability. The primary finding was that when charter schools are operated by management organizations, for-profit and non-profit alike, too often the management organizations are running the show, not the independent boards that are legally the schools
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Reinventing Alternative Education: An Assessment of Current State Policy and How to Improve It
Cheryl Almeida, Cecilia Le, Adria Steinberg, Roy CervantesJobs for the FutureSeptember 2010
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The new normal in public education: doing more with less
“When we get back to a more normal economic cycle in Ohio, this is very doable.” This was Governor Strickland’s response to a question about how he plans to add billions of new state money over the next decade to pay for the state&rsquo
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Top-performing urban middle schools
Each year Fordham analyzes performance data of schools and districts in Ohio’s Big 8 cities, and provides a ranking of each city’s schools by Performance Index (PI) score, a weighted average of proficiency results among all tested students in that school.