Sam Dillon writes in today's NY Times about the outlook for reauthorizing/rewriting No Child Left Behind. In a nutshell, experts say it'd be a heavy lift to get it done this year. Still, Sec. Arne Duncan/the admin & lawmakers are apparently starting to move on it. According to the story:
???Shining a spotlight on those teachers and those principals who are doing a great job, rewarding them, learning from them--cloning them, if possible--is part of the solution.??? --Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education
On primary-secondary education, as on most??topics,??Mr.
While Joel Klein braves a blizzard during his last week as NYC schools chancellor,
???A public school like Berkeley High has an equal obligation to students who have struggled.?? We shouldn't be continuing to allocate resources to students who have had them all along.??? -Philip Halpern, Berkeley High School teacher
Just 24 hours ago I wrote about the news that President Obama will propose to freeze discretionary spending in his State of the Union address tonight.
Ed Week's Michele McNeil broke the news last week that Arne Duncan has decided not to release the names of the "Race to the Top" reviewers--until after the competition is over and grants have been announced.
Just a few minutes ago, President Obama said that "in the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a first-class education." Sounds like a throwaway line, and hardly objectionable. And??this very sentiment??motivates many of us who spend our days working to make the?? U.S.
I'm as big a fan as there is of the work that Chancellor Klein and his team are doing in NYC to build a new system of public education. Given the size of the district, its historical challenges, and the city's politics, it's astonishing how much they've accomplished.
"There's something unseemly about tax dollars being used for lobbyist fees... that go after additional tax dollars." ??? Nebraska Sen.. Bill Avery
Ohio has joined 39 other states and the District of Columbia in submitting its Race to the Top grant application to the Feds…. Whether or not Ohio’s plan is bold enough, and competes well against other states, is now awaiting the determination of reviewers at the U.S. Department of Education.
Deloitte LLPNovember 2009 This national report assessed, from the perspectives of students, teachers, and parents, the purpose of high school. To some of us, the answer appears manifest: to prepare students for post-secondary education and successful careers. However, the results from this survey portray a culture that believes otherwise.
What do Gap Inc., FedEx Corp, Southwest Airlines Co., and high performing charter schools have in common?
Can Ohio finally bring itself to see charter schools as an asset, and not a liability? It is in the interest of the state, its education system, and its children to do so.
CALDER at the Urban InstituteDamon Clark, Paco Martorell, & Jonah RockoffDecember 2009
School districts and STEM schools should be able to assign online work to students to make up for calamity days, according to legislation introduced earlier this month in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Yesterday Terry responded on Flypaper to remarks made by the president of the Dayton Education Association (DEA) as to why the union turned down up to
The Ohio School Funding Advisory Council had its second meeting last week.
Well that didn't take long.??Just a few weeks ago the conventional wisdom was that federal education spending would go up, up, up forever.
More great stuff out of New York City and Baltimore. The leaders of both systems have realized that the old district model is irreparable broken, so they're creating something new.
Don't miss tomorrow morning's event at AEI, where a group of panelists (Cain, Carey, Hess, Schneider, and me) will discuss the major education reform happenings during the Obama administration's first year. --Andy Smarick
The New Yorker has a lengthy profile of Arne Duncan in its??February 1??issue. A colleague of mine??pointed out this segment in particular: ???Duncan, who is forty-five, is six feet five and long-limbed, with a pale face that tapers to a wedgelike chin.??? ....Nice.
Thirteen bucks. That's the cost of the ???Race to the Top??? for every man, woman, and child in the United States. (You do the math: $4 billion divided by 300 million.) Chump change, and well worth the investment, considering the flurry of recent state education reform activity motivated by the federal program, right?
The Washington Post weighs in on Maryland, the nation's most disappointing RTT state ED to unveil new National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies
"If we are seeing a decline in literacy standards among young children, it is in spite of text messaging, not because of it." ??? Dr. Clare Wood, Reader in Development Psychology, University of Coventry
Now that the dust has settled from the stampede of states turning in Race to the Top applications and media outlets far and wide covering the deadline from every angle possible, our attention should turn to making sure this promising program does as much good as possible. How do we make sure the money doesn't go to sustain the status quo like previous ARRA education money?
The ESEA reauthorization issue that most intrigues me is the extent to which Secretary Duncan is serious about moving ED away from compliance and toward incentives. He's alluded to this from time to time, and I wrote about it briefly about a month ago.
A while back, I called Maryland the most disappointing Race to the Top state in America.
After literally months of daily stories in local and national newspapers about Race to the Top--often dozens per day--today my Google Reader account had ZERO articles on the RTT.
