?Rather than becoming more productive, the opposite has happened in education: over the last 30 years, public schools have focused on strategies that decrease productivity.'' Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner at Bellwether Education
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Barely one third of students are prepared for what's next
Reading Checker's piece in today's Wall Street Journal sent Terry into a brief fit of arrhythmia and anxiety.
Think your privacy is secure in public schools? You may want to think again. And it looks like money isn't always going to the right places in New York.
According to today's NY Times, the city's infamous ?rubber rooms? ? made more infamous by last year's Steven Brill New Yorker article ?
Checker's WSJ piece on the recent ???Sputnik moment??? for American education sent my mind reeling and my heart racing.
?The most successful charters [are] protective of the keys to their success because they [are] competing with other charter networks for new contracts.'' * ?Luis Huerta, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College at Columbia University
As a footnote to the earlier NBC post,?Checker also was?interviewed by the BBC about the PISA results and Shanghai's dominance.
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News featured a segment about the newly-released PISA results, which, as you probably know by
Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute tells the Christian Science Monitor that former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ?very explicitly is setting out to be a political answer to the unions.?
Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economics professor, presents today on the New York Times Economix blog some ways in which Republicans in Washington might improve education. Alas, his ideas are not new.
Checker is among those educators ?stunned,? as he told the New York Times, by China's performance in what the Times noted was the nation's ?debut in international standardized testing.? And stunned he, and we all, should be.
Teacher training is all about the technology lately?coaching via earpieces and
Despite the fact that the Race to the Top program disappeared from the news several months ago (winnings for the last round were announced in late August), there have been lingering questions and issues with the program.
Review: Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added
?We are trying to shift the balance of power in the education landscape away from the powerful groups who want to keep the status quo. We are going to be the group that is advocating on behalf of kids.? Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
This piece originally appeared in today's Wall Street Journal (login required).
By happenstance, the same day that Michelle Rhee announced formation of her new education-reform advocacy group, Students First, a committee of our own board okayed a staff (and attorney)?recommendation that we engage in what the IRS calls a ?501 (h)?
Want to learn how to improve children's lives? It's more than just fixing schools. And if you're not already busy this weekend, maybe it's time to get buzzy.
That's the name of the new website for literate and literary teens being unveiled by New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear and former New Yorker managing editor Jacob Lewis.? (This, according to this morning's Times.)
Review: How the World's Most Improved Systems Keep Getting Better
