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No Child Left Behind Waiver: Promising Ideas from Second Round Applications
NCLB second round waiver review
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KIPPster of the year award and scholarship go to KIPP Journey student
Congratulations KIPP Journey Academy
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Supporting the cause you believe in
A single woman will affect lots of people for years to come. Sandra Crane, a 75-year-old volunteer Sunday school teacher from Michigan, is using her life savings (about $150,000) to build a school in Uganda.
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Charter Schools
Lawmakers should keep the Coverdell tax break alive
The program, slated to expire at the end of this year, needs more time--and attention--to reach its full potential.
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Charter Schools
Nothing to lose: Turn failing schools over to CMOs
Michigan's Highland Park School District offers a worthwhile experiment in edu-governance
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Curriculum & Instruction
Misdirection and self-interest: How Heinemann and Lucy Calkins are rewriting the Common Core
Instead of a helpful resource, their new book simply defends existing--and poorly aligned--curricular material.
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Charter Schools
Attempting to solve financial disaster by outsourcing schools – is Ohio next?
A perfect storm of low enrollment, poor fiscal management, and some of the worst academic results in the state prompted Highland Parks Public Schools to take bold action.
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Poverty and schools: Finally, some lights go on
The pendulum might be swinging, ever-so-slightly, toward the believers (in school)
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Charter Schools
Vouchers, good intentions, and the trouble that comes with them
Here's hoping that private schools in Louisiana won't be bullied out of their desire to serve disadvantaged students
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Current testing scandal is an opportunity to improve Ohio’s education accountability system
Current testing scandal is an opportunity to improve Ohio’s education accountability system
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The Irreplaceables: Understanding the Real Retention Crisis in America’s Urban Schools
Erudite yet common-sensical, this latest from TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project) explains in great d
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Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment
The upside-down approach to merit pay
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No Child Left Behind Waiver: Promising Ideas from Second Round Applications
Jeremy Ayers : waivers :: Andy Smarick : RTTT
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Advanced Education
Education takes off: Rocketships and high flyers abound
Aggressive marketing campaigns have led to an
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Why teachers are under the microscope
As a group, future teachers don't fare so well on standardized tests
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Speaking truth to power
Guest blogger Melanie Kurdys reflects on her experience on a school board in the latest installment of the Board's Eye View Challenge
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Weighted-student funding can work for Michigan
Why Michigan should support Governor Rick Snyder's efforts to reform school funding
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Failing to learn the lessons of success
Why South Carolina must look to Louisiana's Recovery School District.
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Fair fight? When a religious group takes over a public school system
Local control, special interests, and the East Ramapo, New York schools
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Blended learning: innovating the teaching process
Fordham welcomes Anthony Kim, blended learning pioneer, to Ohio
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assignment desk: CCSS Math curriculum rankings
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
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Curriculum & Instruction
Twenty-first-century skills, part II: What would Ben Franklin say?
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
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Charter Schools
The Louisiana teacher union employs a shameful tactic to stop school vouchers
The Louisiana teachers union can’t get the courts to stop private schools from enrolling voucher-bearing students this fall, so they’ve taken to threatening the schools with litigation.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core revive content-driven instruction?
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
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Achievement Growth: International and U.S. State Trends in Student Performance
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
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The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: Deemphasizing the Role of Master’s Degrees in Teacher Compensation
The wrong way to “differentiate” teacher pay
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Pulling parent triggers: easier said than done
The good guys won the latest round of the interminable saga of the Adelanto parent-trigger case when a California judge