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Save the date! Unmuddling the Middle - September 14, 2005
American students are achieving academic success until they reach middle school.
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The Hidden Crisis in the High School Dropout Problems of Young Adults in the U.S.: Recent Trends in Overall School Dropout Rates and Gender Differences in Dropout Behavior
Andrew Sum and Paul Harrington, The Business RoundtableMay 2003
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The Twin Challenges of Mediocrity and Inequality: Literacy in the U.S. from an International Perspective
Andrew Sum, Irwin Kirsch and Robert Taggart, Policy Information Center, Educational Testing ServiceFebruary 2002
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K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. School District Administrators
Anthony G. Picciano and Jeff SeamanSloan ConsortiumJanuary 2009
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Teachable Moment: How to Discuss Political Sex Scandals with Elementary School Students
Association for Unsupervised Curriculum DevelopmentMarch 2008
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Use of Education Data at the Local Level
Barbara Means, Christine Padilla, and Larry GallagherOffice of Planning, Evaluation and Policy DevelopmentU.S. Department of EducationJanuary 2010
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A Public Education Primer: Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System
Center on Education Policy2006
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College and Career-Ready: Using Outcome Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
Chad AldemanEducation SectorJanuary 2010
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So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools??
Charles M. PayneHarvard Education Press2008Charles M. PayneHarvard Education Press2008
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You're Leaving? Succession and Sustainability in Charter Schools
Christine Campbell, You're Leaving? Succession and Sustainability in Charter Schools (Seattle, WA: National Charter School Research Project, Center on Reinventing Public Education, November 2010).
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Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress to Education: A Recommended Strategy for the U.S. Department of Education
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy and U.S. Department of EducationNovember 2002
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Assessing the Effects of Voluntary Youth Service: The Case of Teach for America
Doug McAdam and Cynthia Brandt, Stanford UniversitySocial ForcesFebruary 2010
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Race to the Top Round 1 Winners
Earlier this week, The Education Gladfly gained access to a confidential memo from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel about the first round of Race to the Top. Due to its obvious implications for education policy, we reproduce it here in full.
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Quality Counts 2010: Fresh Course, Swift Current--Momentum and Challenges in the New Surge Toward Common Standards
Editorial Projects in EducationJanuary 2010
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NCLB's graduation rate regulations are flexible
Editor's Note: The following letter is in response to the Recommended Reading,"Measures of success," and podcast segment from the November 13, 2008 edition of the Education Gadfly.To the Editor:
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Memo from the Superintendent
Editor's note: We found this letter from Dr. John J. Johnson, EdD., head of the Orange River Regional School District in Pitchfork, Tennessee, to be a particularly compelling depiction of the opportunities and hardships now facing school systems across the land. It is reprinted here in full, with Dr. J's permission.Dear Faculty and Staff,
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America's private public schools
Ask Americans if they support “public schools,” and you will get a resounding “yes.” At the heart of our abiding commitment to the idea of public education is Horace Mann’s ideal of the “common school”: a place whose doors are open to everybody, and where all children, regardless of social class, race or ethnic
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America's worst schools: discuss
A daylong conference at the American Enterprise Institute about turning around failing schools, featuring accomplished and engaging panelists too numerous to name, is planned for Tuesday, March 11th. Find here all the information you could ever want.
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AmeriCorps in search of top managers
The AmeriCorps national service program seeks to fill four critical jobs: the directorships of the three programs that make up AmeriCorps (AmeriCorps*National Civilian Community Corps, AmeriCorps*VISTA, and AmeriCorps*State and National) and the director of recruitment.
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A million little pieces of chalk
Editor’s note: Chester E. “Checker” Finn, Jr. is currently enjoying a brief sabbatical, hanging out at the Calvin Coolidge Institute on the campus of W. Averell Harriman III University and slaving over a memoir of his 40 years in education reform. Here are a few excerpts from the first draft.
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A Misplaced Race Card
My jaw did the proverbial drop when I read this opening sentence in a front page story in Sunday’s Albany Times Union: “Albany’s charter schools have created a second school system that is almost entirely segregated.”…Now that nearly a quarter of Albany&
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Analyze this
Education Pioneers is expanding its analyst fellowship program from the Bay Area to Boston this year, and is accepting applications. Learn more about the program here.
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An artful brouhaha
This week, Mike and Rick discuss private charter schools that teach religion and screw over poor kids, why the Pope is demanding school uniforms, and the Wall Street Journal's incompetence. Art Levine chats about his new study on teacher education, and Education News of the Weird knows that good things come in small packages.
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And keeping it off
Such inattention to detail, such malicious slander, I can not tolerate. Your recent report, The Leadership Bimbo, incorrectly depicts me on its front cover as at least 30 or 40 pounds heavier than I actually am.