A first look at today's education news: NY's new budget will help NYC schools recuperate dollars lost during the teacher-evaluation debacle, U.S. school buildings are alarmingly out of date, and more
When charter schools first emerged more than two decades ago, they presented an innovation in public school governance. No longer would school districts enjoy the “exclusive franchise” to own and operate public schools, as chartering pioneer and advocate Ted Kolderie explained. Charters wouldn’t gain all of the independence of private schools—they would still report to a publicly accountable body, or authorizer—but they would be largely freed from the micromanagement of school boards, district bureaucracies, and union contracts. Autonomy, in exchange for accountability, would reign supreme.
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A first look at today's education news: Pennsylvania's Common Core-aligned diploma law has a gaping loophole, unions and school officials will testify to delay teacher-evaluation reform in Maryland, and more
A first look at today's education news: Principals in 11 percent of NYC's public schools did not flunk a single teacher in the last eight years, student tracking and ability grouping is on the rise, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: high-ability, low-income students are unlikely to even apply to the best colleges, Wall Street likes Philly's school closures, and more
A first look at today's education news: The number of high school kids taking classes for college credit is up 67 percent since 2003, L.A. supe John Deasy argues for depoliticizing education research, and more
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for making preschool available to every child in America. But questions abound: Is universal preschool politically and fiscally feasible—or even educationally necessary? Should we be expending federal resources on universal pre-K or targeting true Kindergarten-readiness programs for the neediest kids? How robust is the evidence of lasting impacts? And what exactly is the president proposing?
A first look at today's education news: A suburban NJ community is divided over armed guards in schools, key Republican congressional leaders are talking up school choice, and more
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In this edition of the Ed Next Book Club, Mike Petrilli sits down with Tony Wagner to discuss his new book
What's needed are smart policies: strong teacher professional standards, rigorous standards for and assessments of prep programs, and exacting rules on education certification
A first look at today's education news: A new Boston school-assignment plan that looks at both geography and quality faces a committee hearing today, debates rage in Alabama over a tax-credit-scholarship program and Common Core implementation, and more
Conducted jointly by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, the new research study Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality sheds light on charter performance — in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis. These cities were highlighted because they have relatively large numbers of charter schools and charter school students. These are cities where charters have been part of the educational landscape for a decade or more. Read this exciting report today!
A first look at today's education news: An NYC panel rejected a school-closure moratorium, the NSF issues a call for multidisciplinary research on education, and more
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A first look at education news from this weekend and today: South Dakota authorizes school employees to carry guns while on the job, Massachusetts lawmakers consider removing the charter school cap in the lowest-performing districts, and more
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Online and blended learning alter some of the most basic characteristics of traditional schooling—and the ripples extend much, much farther
A first look at today's education news: 10 percent of Philly's public schools are slated to close, New York becomes the first state to drop the GED exam, and more
A first look at today's education news: The LA school board election results draw a range of reactions, NBC Nightly News will take on race-based goals in states' NCLB waiver plans, and more
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A first look at today's education news: The struggle over whether to close a neighborhood high school in Philadelphia reflects struggles in many other school districts, a judge plans to rule whether Alabama's governor can sign into law a tax-credit-scholarship bill, and more
A first look at today's education news: Arne Duncan takes back his "pink-slips" assertion, a Louisiana judge throws out Gov. Jindal's education-reform package, and more
A first look at the education news from this weekend and today: the LA school-board election attracts national attention and dollars, three new states apply for NCLB waivers, and more
A first look at today's education news: NYC has picked out Common Core-aligned textbooks and materials, fact-checkers question Arne Duncan's sequestration claims, and more
A first look at today's education news: The Obama Administration predicts dire consequences for Title I and special education if sequestration is not stopped, CPS plans to get tough on underperforming charters, and more
