Everybody's making cuts. Tight finances are forcing states and districts to reconsider which items belong in the ?vital? category on the budget sheet and which ones can be pared away with little collateral damage. Among the emerging holdouts in the ?vital? column is small class size (in no small part because state law often mandates maximum class sizes).
Well, not quite, but what he did say (in this excellent Columbus Dispatch article on school turnarounds) was almost as preposterous:
Kids have lots of opinions about where they go to school these days (especially when there's a chance they could have Tony Danza as their teacher)?but if the current crop i
There are some great suggestions coming in about my September 29 challenge to guess how my little district would (should?) spend $55,000 in RttT funds.? Keep ?em coming. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Having a boring Friday? Ready for the weekend? Well, you're probably not as bored as this kid.
I have been stewing for more than a week about diversity and excellence?ever since Mike issued his Hubris alert!, warning those who claim they've ?cracked the code?
The New York Times is highlighting the hugely successful math program developed in faraway Singapore?whose students consistently score at the top of international math exams.?The program, as the T
?Educational reform is one of the few issues in the galaxy that can bring the political agendas of President Obama, Gov. Chris Christie, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker into near-perfect alignment.? ?Star Ledger Editorial Board, New Jersey Star-Ledger
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.
A cheating epidemic has hit our schools! Maybe it's time to gear up and end this problem.
This is what I was trying to say in that last post?sort of. Thanks, Jay Greene. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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
Congratulations to the high-performing charter schools that received a portion of the $50 million in competitive grants to replicate and expand, as announced
A valuable study that asks a worthless question
Rankings based on reform-friendliness? Sounds familiar
A deluge at Education Nation can't stop IBM's innovation
Ed professors remain in the clouds. But, their views are starting to change.
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?
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?
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.???
?If you're failing my children, get out of the way.'' ?Cory A. Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
That question, and others, is posed on 25 billboards throughout greater Cincinnati.
“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
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.
