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Plenty of ?Room for Debate? on America's top students
Fordham's latest study, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
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Roughing the taxpayer: accountability and school athletics
Education reformers are often accused of being stats-crazy, but are they ignoring important numbers like sports participation rates and athletics spending?? The D.C.
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Quotable & notable
?It's immaterial where they go to school. Are they all succeeding?'' * ? Ellen Gilligan, head of Greater Milwaukee Foundation
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Curriculum & Instruction
The dark side of censorhip: bad books
As a journalist for the better part of 30 years (not counting the samizdat paper I wrote and published (on my dad's mimeograph machine) in my high school seminary), I worship our first amendment.?
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Cleveland's Breakthrough Charter Schools receive national recognition
This week the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants totaling $25 million to charter school networks that have been extremely successful in raising student achievement. The grants went to nine different charter networks across the country, all of which serve mostly low-income students.
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Quotable & notable
?Being up on technology is not considered a luxury or an option anymore.'' * ? Kristin Hayman, Teacher at the Haverford School in Haverford, PA.
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Three's company
With both Mike and Rick at the PIE-Network annual summit, the podcast got a little crazy (in a good way). Co-hosts Chris, Janie, and Daniela talk NCLB waivers, the efficacy of the MCAS, and the truth about delaying Kindergarten. Amber shows that high property taxes don't buy you an internationally competitive education and Chris trains a service animal. [powerpress]
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Education news nuggets
According to a PTSA email sent from Walter John High School in Montgomery County,
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Quotable & notable
?Where there is a great school leader, great students and great teachers will follow. If there isn't that person who can galvanize a team and bring folks together around a common vision, the school is not going to move forward.'' *
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Mike Petrilli talks High Flyers on Fox Business
In case you missed it, Mike beamed in from Seattle this morning to explai
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Education news nuggets
Students are pushing boundaries and bursting bubbles, but will they speak up about
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Curriculum & Instruction
Wrap-up: Major findings from Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
Last week, Fordham released a groundbreaking new study on high-achieving students, titled Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students.
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ObamaFlex: Too much tight, too light on loose
Follower's of Fordham's work know that for the better part of three years, we've been pushing an approach to federal education policy that we call "Reform Realism"--a pro-school reform orientation leavened with a realistic view of what the federal government can get right in education.
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Quotable & notable
?Bullying causes kids to drop out of school, and violence in schools can cause permanent damage to a child's mind'' * ? Valerie Dixon, Hill District-based Coalition Against Violence
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Back to the future: Re-inventing local control
As much as it pains me every time I hear Checker Finn say it, school boards may indeed be irrelevant.?
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Quotable & notable
?You're not guaranteed anything with a diploma or a degree. But you're guaranteed a lot of misery without one.'' * ?Tito Jackson, Boston City Councilor
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Curriculum & Instruction
Learn early, learn often: School counts
You can read Sam Wang and Sandra Aaamodt's ?Delay Kindergarten at Your Child's Peril? essay in today's New York Times for what the two neuroscientists have to say about the development of young brains ?
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Academic growth of high achievers
Fordham's new report released on Tuesday, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
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Quotable & notable
?We need to start healing. We need to get back to our classrooms.'' * ?Andy Coons, President of the Tacoma Education Association
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Curriculum & Instruction
The unilateral repeal of NCLB and the 2012 election
The Obama administration's new waiver plan (officially here, and covered extensively here,
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Curriculum & Instruction
Fallen high flyers don't fall far
Yesterday, we looked at the first finding of Fordham's new groundbreaking study, Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude?
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New York leaps into the middle school trap
What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school ?grade configuration (generally, 6?8) is probably not the way to go was don
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Quotable & notable
?Do I go hat in hand trying to raise money, or find some politicians whose heads I can bang together?''* ? Shelli-Anne Couch, parent, trying to save her children's school library