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Helping Americans Help Themselves: Toward a National Single Stop Policy and More Efficient, More Effective Poverty Fighting
3.10.10 - In "Helping Americans Help Themselves: Toward a National Single Stop Policy and More Efficient, More Effective Poverty Fighting," Tom Freedman, who is president of Freedman Consulting, LLC and served as a senior advisor to President Clinton, and Michael Weinstein, who is senior vice president of the Robin Hood Foundation, identify the key problems with today's poverty fighting system:
More Government Preschool: An Expensive and Unnecessary Middle-Class Subsidy
3.6.10 - Lindsey M. Burke - Federal spending on early childhood education and care exceeds $25 billion annually. President Obama and other proponents of taxpayer-funded universal preschool want to add $10 billion as an incentive for the states...
False Fronts? Behind Higher Education’s Voluntary Accountability Systems
3.6.10 - Andrew P. Kelly, Chad Aldeman - In the throes of the recent economic downturn, the nation’s leaders have repeatedly pointed to America’s higher education system as one of the key engines that will drive the country’s recovery in the years to come....
Rennie Center report sheds light on strategies Massachusetts schools and districts are using to reduce their dropout rates.
(Cambridge, MA) – As Massachusetts educators celebrate a decrease in the statewide dropout rate, researchers at the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy shed light on strategies Massachusetts schools and districts are using to reduce their dropout rates....
Report Advocating Universal Choice Lacks Evidence for Its Equity Claims
3. 4.10 - BOULDER, Colo. and TEMPE, Ariz. (March 3, 2010) -- A new Think Tank Review finds that a recent Brookings report fails to provide the necessary evidence to support its call for a federally led, universal expansion of school choice....
NEW AEI/EDUCATION SECTOR REPORT ON THE PITFALLS OF VOLUNTARY ACCOUNTABILITY IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
As the call for more stringent forms of accountability and transparency in higher education have become louder, the major trade associations have responded by creating two voluntary, public databases to which schools can submit new information on college costs and quality....
How We’re Doing in the World
3.1.10 - Judged by most standards, America and the world are better off today than they were a year ago when President Obama entered office. While few Americans will forget the fear of global economic meltdown that accompanied the 44th president’s inauguration and the drastic stimulus and triage measures ...
Teacher Effectiveness Don't Forget School Design
2.24.10 - Barry Stern, Ph.D. - The Gates Foundation is spending $500 million to understand and improve teacher effectiveness. It will likely confirm what we know already about great teaching, perhaps with a few tweaks, such as those noted below:...
Why Race to the Middle?
2.23.10 - BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO – A day after President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan laid out an aggressive plan to expand federal control over K-12 academic standards at the National Governors Association (NGA) winter meetings, a new report criticizes the national standards process as “opaque” ...
The Education of John Jay
2.22.10 - Myron Magnet - Few could fathom why 55-year-old John Jay turned down President Adams’s nomination to rejoin the Supreme Court when his two terms as New York’s governor ended. What would lead him, in the hale prime of life, to retire instead to the plain yellow house he’d just built ...
Report makes recommendations to improve the ranks of the teaching profession through support of innovative practice-based teacher preparation programs.
(Cambridge, MA) – As Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls for major reforms to the nation’s teacher preparation programs, a report issued by the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy highlights the role that innovative practice-based teacher preparation programs play in improving the ranks of the teaching profession in Massachusetts....
The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports
2.19.10 - What, in conjunction with good schools, is necessary to increase the chances that all children, especially disadvantaged ones, will enter and leave school with the skills they need for 21st-century success?...
Will 9th Circuit Overturn U.S. Supreme Court Precedent
2.19.10 - Arlington, Va.The Institute for Justice today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Winn v. Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization, which declared unconstitutional a 13-year-old Arizona school choice program that now provides private school scholarships to more than 28,000 children each year....
Funding for the Department of Education
2.16.10 - In a FY 2011 budget that freezes non-defense discretionary expenditures, the Department of Education has attracted some attention for being one of the few places in the federal government that would attract an increase in funding if the plan is enacted....
President Obama's Budget and Education Policy
2.16.10 In submitting his first budget to Congress, President Obama asked for a $3 billion dollar boost in education while freezing spending in many other programs. Grover J. Whitehurst says this budget proposal contains some solid ideas for improving education but it changes the federal-state dynamic, which may rankle some people....
Writing Instruction in Massachusetts
2.12.10 - This new Pioneer Institute policy brief on student writing in our schools will be helpful if it highlights the understanding that students will need to write often and at length in college and beyond....
Tennessee's Race to the Top (TN-RTTT) application contains some impressive education policy changes.
2.12.10 - Most of them involve making better use of the Tennessee Value Added Assessment System data that has been available but inadequately used since the early nineties. ...
Performance Not Population: Why Charter Schools are an Educational and Civil Rights Solution
2.12.10 - Rachel Chaney - Last week researchers at UCLA’s Civil Rights Project released Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards....
"Turnaround" by any other name would be just as…sour
2.12.10 - Andy Smarick - Here's what we know about previous attempts to fix America's most persistently failing schools. ...
Facing Our Future: Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Enforcement
2.12.10 - This report examines the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations - ...An Interview with Glenn Scoggins: Teaching at an International School
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