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Office of Civil Rights Enforcement Points to Need for Tracking Reform
BOULDER, Colo. and TEMPE, Ariz. (March 8, 2010) -- Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is announcing a new initiative to verify that school districts are providing students with equal access to college preparatory curricula, starting with compliance reviews in about 32 school districts across the U.S.
What's possible when we stand up for kids?
3.3.10 - Watch the new EdVoice documentary that chronicles the fight to empower parents to turnaround failing schools and to bring more great teachers into our classrooms. ...
A New Era for the Strategic Management of Human Capital
3.2.10 - Over the past 18 months educators have seen the national education reform agenda transformed. Novel ideas and unique strategies have been placed on the national docket for serious consideration. This transformation includes a focus on developing talent and managing human capital, a core emphasis of the education agenda of President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan...
GAO Issues Report on University Endowments
Endowment funds at the nation’s colleges and universities grew by an average of 6.2 percent a year in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1989, from just over $100 billion to more than $400 billion in 2008, according to a long-awaited Government Accountability Office study released today....
A Lack of Consequences for Sexual Assault
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 24, 2010 — Students found 'responsible' for sexual assaults on campus often face little or no punishment from school judicial systems, while their victims’ lives are frequently turned upside down, according to a year-long investigation by the Center for Public Integrity...
Compulsively Impulsive / Impulsively Compulsive
2.21.10 - THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE IS DEVASTATING FOR ANY CHILD, but for nine-year-old Pat Swanson the death of her beloved uncle triggered thoughts and behaviors that she had never before experienced....
A Period of Transformation for East LA Schools
2.19.10 - The Pilot Schools plans were developed by teacher teams in collaboration with the Los Angeles Education Partnership, who has a 20 year track record for academic achievement within LAUSD. The East LA community leaders support in-district reform as the best plan for transforming the Garfield family of schools. ...
Five "Honorees" of Bunkum Awards Announced for their Contributions to Sub-Par Education Research
BOULDER, Colo. and TEMPE, Ariz. (February 15, 2010) -- State education agencies and local school districts are increasingly asked to make evidence-based decisions about school reform initiatives, often assuming that all evidentiary claims are the result of high-quality research. ...
Time for a Paradigm Shift for Professional Learning
2.15.10 Hayes Mizell - Many people think about professional development in excessively narrow terms. Educators view it as an episodic add-on to the school year. School systems treat it as a service peripheral to student achievement....
Mobility, Housing Markets, and Schools: Estimating General Equilibrium Effects of Interdistrict Choice. 2010.
2,13,10 - In theoretical models of residential sorting, a household’s location decision is closely tied to its demand for consuming local public services....
Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools. 2009.
2.13.10 - David A. Stuit and Thomas M. Smith - This study examines how teacher turnover differs between charter and traditional public schools and seeks to identify factors that explain these differences. differences....
DO VOUCHERS INCREASE SCHOOL SEGREGATION?
2.13.10 - Gregory Elacqua - School choice advocates argue that the introduction of vouchers can make improved educational opportunity available to the most disadvantaged children....
Escalating Evidence on Charter Segregation
BOULDER, Colo., and TEMPE, Ariz. (Feb. 9, 2010) -- Today the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University released a study that examines...School Restraint, Seclusion Bill Clears House Committee
2.6.10 - The House Education and Labor Committee voted Thursday to pass the bill known as the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act by a vote of 34 to 10. Now, the measure must be considered by the full House and it must be taken up in the Senate before it can become law....
2009 "Top Ten" List of Achievements in Autism Research
2.5.10 - To document the progress made toward our mission to discover the causes and treatment for autism spectrum disorders, every year ...
STAAR to replace TAKS
AUSTIN – Commissioner of Education Robert Scott announced today that the next generation of student tests will be called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness or STAAR....Jeanne Allen: What Obama's Call for More Federal Education Spending Won't Do
"When American voters say education is the second most important issue after homeland security, it’s not because they are looking for spending increases, but because they recognize U.S. education is failing to keep pace not only with our own expectations...
Is "Academic Freedom" a Special Kind of Freedom?
1.29.10 - More phony-white-liberal crocodile tears have been shed over the issue of academic freedom than perhaps over any other. More academics have waxed more eloquent over it than over perhaps any other topic receiving their tender attention....Despite federal stimulus money, some state school budgets may be at risk
Seattle, WA, January 29, 2010 - An early “snapshot” analysis of 23 state budgets using federal education stimulus dollars indicates that short-term benefits could result in less spending on schools over the long term in some states....2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
NCTQ releases its annual 52-volume report on state policies that impact the teaching profession. This year's edition is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of states' teacher policies including key policy areas such as teacher preparation, evaluation, tenure and dismissal, alternative certification and compensation. ...An Interview with Diane Ravitch: Reforms and Reforms Everywhere; And No Improvement Forthcoming
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Marv Marshall
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2010-03-14 23:01:00
Great interview! Schools are still using a 20th century production model. The key to learning is effective instruction--a critical aspect of education that is ...
Concerned Teacher
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2010-03-14 22:07:49
Actually the problem starts in the womb. Far too many low achievers were born to young mothers who, in some instances, were not planning ...
Fran
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2010-03-14 21:45:27
If the MA. standards were in place nation-wide, we would be graduating many high achievers. That's why they are avoided by education reform "designers".
Hunt's support ...
Dick Schutz
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2010-03-14 18:59:29
Psst. The dirty open secret is that the unaccountables at the top don't know how to "turnaround" these schools. Duncan didn't do it ...
Dick Schutz
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2010-03-14 18:45:51
Marion Brady has it right.
The national standards (euphemistically labeled "Common Core State Standards) are of, by, and for the standardized testing industry. The document ...
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