As the 2011-12 school year ends, we want to highlight the unique events and successes that happened in our schools this year.
Three out of four (73.5 percent) of the national 2009 graduating class successfully graduated high school in four years.
Readers probably won’t find an end-all be-all solution to teacher evaluation in this report. What you will find is a starting place—to brainstorm which methods best fit your objectives.
The report challenges the choice system as it currently stands, saying that existing school choice programs, while delivering slightly better outcomes, are not challenging the public school sector as they need to be.
The Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) takes a look at how strong charter management organizations manage staff to maximize the instructional and cultural coherence of the school.
For all the talk of gaps in achievement, opportunity, and funding between ethnic and racial groups in American education, a different divide may also be splitting our schools and our future. In his acclaimed and controversial recent book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, scholar/pundit/provocateur Charles Murray describes a widening class schism.
Many of us have probably dozed off in class, and now $1.1 million in grants will go toward keeping classroom engagement alive.
A few suggestions for voucher accountability
Peter reviews the essays in Board's Eye View's recent series on education governance.
Why Eva Moskowitz is right to challenge New York's enrollment quotas for students with special needs.
In the end, the “just right” theory of reading instruction is focused on the right goal—having students read independently and with deep understanding. But the way it tries to get there may be exactly what is holding our students back from achieving at the levels they need.
Philosophical gravitas from an unexpected source.
The time for tinkering has passed
Times are tough for the nation’s largest union: Fresh off Scott Walker’s recall victory and a
Imagine, for a moment, a policy that allows learning-disabled students to take their share of federal IDEA funds to the public or private schools of their choice. It’s outlandish to suppose that we would discontinue the use of state assessments given to most of these students. But that’s the reality in Florida.
The growth in capital available to schools from private investors is an underrated success story for the charter movement.
Mike Petrilli joined Susan Headden on Minnesota Public Radio this morning to discuss how much the Common Core will actually change education.
Guest blogger Robyne Camp explains why suburban education reform is so challenging.
A proposed online charter school in North Carolina learns how challenging it is to challenge the status quo.
The Common Core ELA standards are right to takes on one of the most prominent and often fiercely defended fallacies in American education: that fiction is the only—or perhaps even the best—way to develop students’ love of reading, learning, and critical comprehension skills.
Guest blogger Timothy G. Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, argues for strong school board leadership in improving student achievement.
Bold reforms are needed in Ohio now more than ever
Teacher-evaluation-system gourmands
What Harlem Village Academy and Finland have in common
