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PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle
Kristie KauerzFoundation for Child DevelopmentJune 2010
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Principal Attrition and Mobility: Results from the 2008-09 Principal Follow-up Survey
Danielle Battle & Kerry GruberThe National Center for Education Statistics June 2010
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Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
Howard S. Bloom, Saskia Levy Thompson, and Rebecca UntermanMDRCJune 2010
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Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities
Thomas C. Hunt and Timothy Walch, Eds.Alliance for Catholic Education PressJune 2010
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Denver ProComp: An Outcomes Evaluation of Denver's Alternative Teacher Compensation System
Edward W. Wiley, Eleanor R. Spindler, & Amy N. SubertUniversity of Colorado at Boulder2010
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Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction
Institute of Education SciencesJune 2010This report is the third and final report of a series that examines the efficacy of comprehensive teacher induction programs, which are intensive, formalized mentoring programs that many districts have adopted and developed in order to boost student achievement, increase teacher retention, and provide a system of support for new teachers.
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The Proficiency Illusion, Empire State edition
Almost three years ago, Fordham and the Northwest Evaluation Association published a landmark study, The Proficiency Illusion, which found that state ?proficiency cut scores? varied tremendously, not just from state to state but also within states.
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Back to the education future: Early childhood education
The New York Times article, ?The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers? by David Leonhardt, was the most-emailed article in the Times yesterday, and Education Week's Elanna S.
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Conserving the status quo?
We confess. Mike and I were partly wrong last week: More than half a dozen conservatives have misgivings about the ?Common Core? standards and the tests to follow.
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Education news nuggets
Washingtonians share their opinion on the latest round of D.C. teacher firings. Want to travel to Japan to teach English?
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Columbus returns to middle-school model
The Columbus Dispatch has had great coverage of the struggles of? and now the proposed fix for ?
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Quotable and notable
?We are facing the hard truth that the [proficiency] gains in the past were simply not as advertised.'' ? Merryl Tisch, Chancellor of the New York state Board of Regents
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Bridging the education research/education policy divide
Bridging the divide between education research and education policy can be difficult, but we came one step closer this week when we co-hosted the first Emerging Education Policy Scholars program with the American Enterprise Institute.
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Rhee-arranging D.C. teachers
George Parker put his name on the dotted line. And thus, a city which previously paid, in the words of the Washington Post, “lip service” to teacher quality put its money where its mouth is.
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Prying into private schools
Gadfly’s not sure what to make of Secretary Duncan’s comments earlier this week in a big speech to the National Urban League.
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Measuring What Matters: A Stronger Accountability Model for Teacher Education
Edward CroweCenter for American ProgressJuly 2010
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An Experimental Study of the Effects of Monetary Incentives on Performance on the 12th-Grade NAEP Reading Assessment
Henry Braun, Irwin Kirsch, and Kentaro YamamotoTeachers College RecordForthcoming 2011
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Knock, knock--Randi's here?
We often find ourselves in the other corner of the policy ring from AFT President Randi Weingarten. So it is with a mixture of cheer and frustration that we discover Ms. Weingarten to be a talented crafter of haiku, sanely ambitious (“just enough to make a difference”), and notably tireless (“what is sleep?” she queries when asked how much she gets).
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Conserving the status quo?
We confess. Mike and I were partly wrong last week: More than half a dozen conservatives have misgivings about the “Common Core” standards and the tests to follow.
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Arne Duncan: We're going to hold private schools ?accountable?
The Administration's number-one pitchman thinks I'm being overly critical about the Race to the Top, but what does he have to say about
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Will we ever get past race and class?
For the better part of a week, Washington has been consumed by the Shirley Sherrod pseudo-scandal, leading many pundits to ponder race relations in America circa 2010.
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Back to the education future: The importance of history
It has been a month since the death of the longest tenured Senator in US history, Robert Byrd, and today I'd like to honor Byrd by talking about one of his favorite subjects: history.
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Education news nuggets
Teaching to the test becoming a problem? Check out two schools where passing the test goes hand-in-hand with good teaching, no matter the student's background.
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Quotable and notable
?To suggest that a charter school started by community members who want to help kids in their community cannot serve 100 percent Hispanic kids in a community that's 100 percent Hispanic ? that they should be penalized for that or they shouldn't be allowed to open up ? that doesn't make sense.''
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Back to the education future: Liberal arts and creativity
An interesting article in the July 10th edition of Newsweek illustrates a growing ?Creativity Crisis? facing US students. Creativity has always been considered a key to continued US strength, but general creativity scores for US students have been falling consistently since 1990.?
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Race to the Top: ?avalanche? is a relative term
Arne Duncan just announced 19 finalists for Race to the Top round two, including Ohio, saying that these applications represented the boldest reforms (and by ?bold,? that means those in the top 51 percent of the 36 states plus?DC?to submit).
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Race to the Top
Well, as you've probably seen/heard by now, there are 19 finalists for the federal Race to the Top Phase 2 competition (35 states and the District of Columbia had applied.) Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the announcement during a speech at the National Press Club earlier today.
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The Race to the Press Release
Arne Duncan is going to announce the finalists in the second round of the Race to the Top tomorrow, the significance of which is?nothing. The Secretary is free to name as many states as he wishes, which is precisely what I suspect he'll do.