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Interview with RI's Gist
Very good interview with RI's state chief Deborah Gist (in the very good journal CommonWealth). --Andy Smarick
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Let's hear it for Education Equality
I've long shared the core principles of the Education Equality Project, above all the conviction that great schools and teachers??can and should be expected to do a lot to equalize educational opportunity and results in the United States--this in contrast to the defeatist??"Broader Bolder" a
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Let's hear it for Education Equality
I've long shared the core principles of the Education Equality Project, above all the conviction that great schools and teachers?can and should be expected to do a lot to equalize educational opportunity and results in the United States?this in contrast to the defeatist??
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Quotable and notable
"We will be vigilant in continuing to force the district to be more efficient and to drive resources to local school sites." ??? A.J. Duffy, president, United Teachers of Los Angeles
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Quotable and notable
?We will be vigilant in continuing to force the district to be more efficient and to drive resources to local school sites.? ? A.J. Duffy, president, United Teachers of Los Angeles
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Teacher reforms: More radioactive than vouchers
Mark this as a milestone. According to the Associated Press, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to abolish tenure for new teachers and introduce merit pay on a "largely party line vote" of 64-55.
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Teacher reforms: More radioactive than vouchers
Mark this as a milestone. According to the Associated Press, the Florida House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to abolish tenure for new teachers and introduce merit pay on a ?largely party line vote? of 64-55.
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Mike Petrilli and Andy Smarick, the Duke and Butler of education policy?
In our latest podcast episode, usual co-host Rick Hess skips town to attend the NCAA finals in Indianapolis.
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Stakeholder buy-in is a process, not a program
Guest blogger Peter Meyer wrote this in response to Checker Finn's recent Gadfly editorial, "The 'buy-in' paradox". Meyer is a Contributing Editor of Education Next and member of a New York State school board.
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Explanations of gender achievement gaps are important to pursue, even if some are annoying
This month Center on Education Policy came out with a report on achievement gaps between boys and girls (see Janie's review of it here).
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Explanations of gender achievement gaps are important to pursue, even if some are annoying
This month Center on Education Policy came out with a report on achievement gaps between boys and girls (see Janie's review of it here).
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The case for human judgment
The education policy community is abuzz about the scoring irregularities that surfaced in the Race to the Top competition.
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Re: Excellent TNTP report on RTT
I'm going to say more about The New Teacher Project's very useful report in a bit (see Andy's take here), but let me lodge one complaint.
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A plug for pork
Over at the NewSchools Summit blog, Kevin Huffman defends Teach For America's annual federal appropriation. I'm still not crazy about it. -Mike Petrilli
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The case for human judgment
The education policy community is abuzz about the scoring irregularities that surfaced in the Race to the Top competition.
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RTT scoring of charter laws
I'm a sucker for charter schools, scatter plots, Google docs, and good Race to the Top??analysis, so this post by Nelson Smith over at NAPCS was right up my alley. If any of these things strike your fancy, you ought to check it out too.
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Excellent NTP report on RTT
The New Teacher Project has been following the RTT process closely. It was one of the first organizations to handicap the race, providing valuable analysis of state laws in light of RTT priorities.
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Excellent NTP report on RTT
The New Teacher Project has been following the RTT process closely. It was one of the first organizations to handicap the race, providing valuable analysis of state laws in light of RTT priorities.
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RTT scoring of charter laws
I'm a sucker for charter schools, scatter plots, Google docs, and good Race to the Top?analysis, so this post by Nelson Smith over at NAPCS was right up my alley. If any of these things strike your fancy, you ought to check it out too.
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California falls into same trap
California loses 163 points, blames lack of stakeholder support. --Andy Smarick
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Serve some gin, others juice
The Harambee Institute of Science and Technology, a charter school in West Philadelphia, has forever changed the meaning of the phrase “School is Cool.” Until last week, the K-8 school’s cafeteria doubled on weekends as Club Damani, a nightclub and lounge serving alcohol off an expired liquor license.
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Quotable and notable
???You just don't need this sophisticated assessment stuff. What you need is excellent teachers who stay in contact with their kids and work with them day after day. We've just gone test crazy.??? ???Dr. Nel Noddings, Stanford University education professor emerita
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Quotable and notable
?You just don't need this sophisticated assessment stuff. What you need is excellent teachers who stay in contact with their kids and work with them day after day. We've just gone test crazy.? ?Dr. Nel Noddings, Stanford University education professor emerita
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Substance over form
So why did Tennessee and Delaware win in the first round of Race to the Top? The growing consensus is that the crucial factor was “stakeholder support” (buy-in from unions, districts, etc.).
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Authorizing excellence
The land of 10,000 lakes is not keen on letting 1,000 flowers bloom. Nearly a year ago, the Minnesota legislature decided to ramp up expectations for charter school authorizers. It put in place a more rigorous process to qualify as an authorizer and required more direct contact between authorizer and school.
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Race to the Test hits the ground running
With the ink still damp on Race to the Top’s first round winners’ checks, the Education Department has launched its next stimulus-funded competition: $350 million to “consortia” of states to develop “common assessments” in alignment with “common standards.” These funds are a portion of Duncan’s discretionary kitty, which he announced in Febr