EdNewsToday
Classrooms under siege
3.14.10 - SCHOOLS are turning into mini-jails in which teachers must act as wardens, as violence increasingly leads to lockdowns and court orders.
Obama Calls for Sweeping Overhaul in Education Law
3.14.10 - The Obama administration on Saturday called for a broad overhaul of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, proposing to reshape divisive provisions that encouraged instructors to teach to tests, narrowed the curriculum, and labeled one in three American schools as failing. ...
Julia Steiny: Tempers may flare as worst-performing schools named
3.14.10 - Starting a few weeks ago, per orders from the U.S. Department of Education, each state began naming its worst schools. So the nationally famous blowup in Central Falls, where the superintendent fired the high school’s entire staff, was only the first of what could be as many as 5,000 blowups. ...
TEXAS TEXTBOOK MASSACRE
3.14.10 - Education Board OKs Radical Changes, Thomas Jefferson Cut From Curriculum ...
A step down: Federal education standards
3.13.10 - Ze’ev Wurman and Sandra Stotsky - High academic standards are the foundation of Massachusett's landmark education reform success. Let's not give them up for a set of so-called college readiness standards that won't even get our children into college. ...
Bill Maher: New Rule: Let's Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don't Learn -- Let's Fire the Parents
3.13.10 - Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in a poor Rhode Island neighborhood. But according to all the studies, it doesn't matter what teachers do. What matters is what parents do....
Whitmire: New data on how far boys are falling behind
3.13.10 - Richard Whitmire looks at a new report to be released next week that shows that males are not doing as well on state tests as females--more evidence that the Obama administration's approach to school reform must include targeted efforts at males....
Jay Mathews: Numbers hide a great high school
3.13.10 - I was astonished to see T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria labeled a "persistently lowest achieving school," as reported by my colleague Michael Alison Chandler....
Texas Approves Curriculum Revised by Conservatives
3.13.10 - Because the state is one of the largest buyers of textbooks, the changes approved by the Texas School Board will have a broad influence....
Maths ability 'dangerously low'
2.12.10 - The quality of students completing year 12 maths has deteriorated so much over the past 20 years that standards are now 'dangerously low'. ...
Mediator to lead talks between Central Falls and its fired teachers
3.12.10 - A mediator will lead negotiations meant to avert the mass firing of all teachers from long-troubled Central Falls High School as part of a plan to improve student performance, Superintendent Frances Gallo said yesterday. ...
Texas SBOE members clash over racial balance in history
2,12,10 - Much of the conflict centered on the racial balance of the historical figures to be included in textbooks starting in the 2011-2012 school year. Tempers boiled over when sex or religion were added to the mix...
Deal Gives New Life to Overhaul of Student Loans
3.12.10 - The deal would bundle a bill on student loan overhaul into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation...
Developmental delays surge in Oregon kids
3.11.10 - Pediatricians take the lead in screening babies, toddlers for developmental delays. Early childhood special education experts step up to help a fast-rising caseload get ready for kindergarten. ...
Initial comments on CCSSO/NGA's March 2010 public comment draft for ELA
3.11.10 - Sandra Stotsky - No research base supporting the empty 10 College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Reading on K-12 grade-level standards (see p. 6 and p. 31 of the main document)....
Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered
3.11.10 - WASHINGTON — With Democratic Congressional leaders and the White House struggling on Wednesday to finalize the details of major health care legislation, House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent another of President Obama’s top legislative priorities...
Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts
3.11.10 - The Texas school board held hearings on proposed changes to the state’s social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light...
California's College Dreamers
3.10.10 - When will students figure out the politicians have sold them out? Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week....
Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says
3.10.10 - A Senate panel learned that more students in more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the United States....
Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing
3.10 - Rafaela Espinal, facing camera, the principal of Public School 125 in Harlem, takes prospective parents on a tour. One selling point is the school’s swimming pool...An Interview with Diane Ravitch: Reforms and Reforms Everywhere; And No Improvement Forthcoming
Latest comments
Marv Marshall
on
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
on
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
on
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
on
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
on
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 ...
Navigate archive
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Featured author
Colin Hannaford
EducationNews.org British and Foreign Correspondent. For twenty-five years Colin Hannaford was a head of math - and latterly also head of ethics - at one of England's most prestigious international schools. Whilst there, he developed a new way of teaching math that is attracting increasing international respect and attention.
EducationNews.org British and Foreign Correspondent. For twenty-five years Colin Hannaford was a head of math - and latterly also head of ethics - at one of England's most prestigious international schools. Whilst there, he developed a new way of teaching math that is attracting increasing international respect and attention.
