After the pomp, circumstance, and hope we can believe in of 2008, you may have an election hangover. And if you don’t live in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, or Boston, you may not have even realized that next Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. But of four big races (and a few ballot initiatives) due next week, education is a common theme in all of them.
Theodore R. (Ted) Sizer, who passed away last week after a long and valiant battle with cancer, was a towering figure in American education--and a wonderful guy.
I've written a couple times recently about the Department's lack of clarity about its view of the proper role for the feds in K-12 education.
Per the below RTT minutiae, the Department offered more in its latest weekly update: The Department reviewed and responded to??comments from OMB on the final notices for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund and Race to the Top programs.
Core Knowledge and Joanne Jacobs both picked up on a blog this week by Linda Perlstein, who says that Obama is “wrong” to suggest that teachers are the single most imp
The Ohio Department of Education recently spotlighted an innovative partnership between Dayton Public Schools and Sinclair Community College that has established a unique
Ohio’s public early college academies are combining forces to lobby the Ohio General Assembly for more cash to keep their innovative high-school programs afloat.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Friday that the nation needs a national policy to boost science education, especially in promoting the best ways to teach science, engineering, and math.
New Schools for New Orleans (here) is seeking a Chief Operating Officer and Director of Development to help grow the organization and work toward its goal of achieving excellent public schools for all students in New Orleans.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics scores released earlier this month received a somber reception here in Ohio and rightly so - student achievement in math has remained relatively flat in the eighth grade for the last decade. The NAEP is a biennial test administered to fourth, eighth, and twelfth graders by the U.S.
Center on Education PolicyOctober 2009
The Department's latest weekly update on the ARRA (released on 10/21) included the following: The Department submitted to OMB and internal clearance the notice of final priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria; the notice inviting applications; and the application for the $4.35 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program.
If you enjoyed Andy Smarick's article on the fallacy of school turnarounds then you'll want to watch this Education Next video in which he and Mike Petrilli discuss the issue.
Theodore R. (Ted) Sizer, who passed away last week after a long and valiant battle with cancer, was a towering figure in American education-and a wonderful guy.
Tomorrow, Education Next is releasing my article that makes the case against the current turnaround craze. Stay tuned for more.
Ten days ago, I wrote at length??here about the Department's shifting/uncertain position on federalism in education.
Whew, I just finished reading Secretary Duncan's??meaty address to the faculty and students at Teachers College at Columbia University.
The National Association of Scholars has??posted an article that highlights the work Andy Smarick has done tracking the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, the economic stimulus).
The New Haven, Connecticut school district has not failed to disappoint lately in grabbing our attention and is back in the news again- This time for
John Merrow of Learning Matters has an interview here with Robert Bobb, Detroit Public School's "Emergency Financial Manager," who was brought in to help right a school district with a $259 million deficit that's hemorrhaging students.
Quotable: "The psychological impact of no longer being at the bottom has been powerful here. For so long, people believed Baltimore would always be last, no matter how hard they worked."
Southern Education FoundationSeptember 2009
Paul Hill, Christine Campbell, David Menefee-Libey, Brianna Dusseault, Michael DeArmond, and Betheny GrossCenter on Reinventing Public EducationOctober 2009
Education research is slowly developing towards a cold hard science. So argues the latest edition of the Harvard Education Letter, which explores the role of economic research in education policy.
If you haven’t heard the news that the newspaper industry is dying, you must not be reading the newspaper anymore. Which is entirely possible. According to the Pew Research Center, newspaper readership fell 5 percent in just the past year, and advertising revenues are down 23 percent over the past two years.
