Today, the White House announced the three finalists in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge: Clark Montessori Junior & Senior High School?(Cincinnati, OH) Kalamazoo Central High School (Kalamazoo, MI)
President Obama announces his Teacher of the Year just as we gear up for Teacher Appreciation Week.
?Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up on what they hear.? Where you draw the line is debatable.? ?Johanna Haver, English-language immersion proponent
A major Chicago voucher program is gaining steam in the Illinois legislature. This is highly unexpected but absolutely fantastic.
A major Chicago voucher program is gaining steam in the Illinois legislature. This is highly unexpected but absolutely fantastic. The city can continue to support the district's reform efforts, expand chartering, and give kids options in the private schools sector as well.
Just a reminder that today is the last day to vote for the White House's Race to the Top Commencement Challenge. The winning high school will receive a visit from President Obama where he will speak at their commencement.
PowerPoint is making us stupid, vending machines are making us fat, and students are addicted to texting
PowerPoint is making us stupid, vending machines are making us fat, and students are addicted to texting
This article demonstrates perfectly how a state chief can be torn between reform and buy-in as he/she seeks to win RTT ?funds.
???The federal government should stay out of the way of these efforts. As we work on the reauthorization of ESEA, we should find ways to assist states, not require or coerce them, with this difficult, but important, work.??? ???Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming
?The federal government should stay out of the way of these efforts. As we work on the reauthorization of ESEA, we should find ways to assist states, not require or coerce them, with this difficult, but important, work.? ?Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming
Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein, eds.Harvard Education Press2010
Is this the beginning of the end for last hired, first fired? At least a few cities facing budgetary difficulties have come to an obvious realization: Firing teachers based on seniority rather than performance is going to seriously damage the quality of their respective workforces.
J. Taylor, A.D. Roehrig, B. Soden Hensler, C.M. Connor, C. Schatschneider Science Magazine April 23, 2010
Nearly twenty years ago, legislators in Minnesota birthed the charter-school movement swaddled in a “grand bargain": These innovative public schools would deliver solid academic results in return for the freedom to do it their own way.
The U.K. may be America’s Motherland, but here’s one thing the Brits can learn from the Yankees: School choice alone is a mediocre route to school improvement. The British backlash to testing and accountability is both notable and understandable—and remarkably like the American response to the failings of No Child Left Behind. But whereas the U.S.
Missouri has announced it will merge its state boards of education for K-12 and higher ed. Echoing President Obama and other’s calls for a greater focus on college completion, the Show Me State wants to streamline the primary, secondary, and tertiary education systems. That’s all well and good, but really, Missouri, that’s the best you’ve got?
Since the U.S. Department of Education named Tennessee and Delaware as the only winners in the first round of the Race to the Top, a battle has raged about the importance of stakeholder buy-in.
The National Council on Teacher Quality has launched another National Research Competition on Teacher Quality. Here are the details:
?The third party funders reserve the right to reconsider their support for this initiative if there is a material change in DCPS' leadership.? ? Cate Swinbum, President, DC Public Education Fund, in a letter to Michelle Rhee, DC Public Schools Chancellor
Louisa May Alcott Elementary in Cleveland may have caught our eye for delivering a quality education to economically disadvantaged youngsters, but it was its results with special needs students that truly impressed us.
We appreciate Mike's enthusiasm for Denver's School of Science and Technology but would rather see President Obama give the commencement speech at Cincinnati's
The school board of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District voted this week to lay off 10 percent of its 8,000 employees, including 545 teachers. Particularly hard hit will be the district’s ten “innovation schools”….
Bill Clinton hopes to raise profile of universities, whose students are tech-addicted, English-fluent, and have already been put on the path to college.
State lawmakers are expected to address the woes of the state’s public pension systems later this year. A recent report indicates they have their work cut out for them. According to the report, published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Joshua D.
