Effort to repeal California gay history law fails
Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools failed Wednesday in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum…
Year: 2011
Opinion: Better ways to deal with achievement gap need to be found
Frederick M. Hess’s long essay in the latest issue of the quarterly National Affairs pleased those of us who share the American Enterprise Institute scholar’s dislike for politicians’…
Chicago Public Schools to roll out high school-college hybrid
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Education metadata project launches new website
The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) and Creative Commons have launched an online forum for educators to learn about and discuss their effort to create a common metadata…
Watch: How foreclosures could have cost schools millions
The housing crisis has cost Minneapolis Public Schools $150 million in state funding as students were forced to move from the area after their families' homes were foreclosed,…
Bully-proofing your kids
Miranda Jones can remember many afternoons in the counselor's office in her small-town Colorado middle school, crying about other kids relentlessly teasing about her weight, CNN reports.
Faulty data wrongly placed school among worst in state
A Delaware middle school will no longer receive hundreds of thousands in additional funding after it was mistakenly named one of the worst schools in the state, the…
LA schools to boost equity for minority students
A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and black students, resulting…
U.S. schools struggle with basic human need
It's not iPads, SMART boards or after school activity programs that the majority of U.S. schools are struggling to provide, it's something much more basic, and somewhat shocking:…
Districts share progress toward 21st-century learning
Incorporating technology to enhance student learning and creating teams of stakeholders to drive innovation in all school endeavors are two of a handful of best practices that educators…
Funding for Idaho online learning would vary widely
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New tack sought for teacher jobs, school modernization
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Inside a ‘Bring Your Own Device’ program
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ID cards will let parents track students’ behavior
Metro Nashville freshman Zachary Jenkins has a hard time keeping track of his $500 district-issued city bus pass, school library card, student ID and the lunch number that…
Is education software failing our schools?
The Web site of Carnegie Learning, a company started by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University that sells classroom software, trumpets this promise: “Revolutionary Math Curricula. Revolutionary Results,” reports…
Cheating Connecticut teachers face punishments: Pay cuts and community service
Twelve teachers who were involved in a Connecticut test tampering scandal are losing 20 days pay and must serve 25 hours of community service by tutoring students after…
Opinion: A new look at the CREDO charter school study
Most people involved in education policy know exactly what you mean when you refer to “the CREDO study.” I can’t prove this, but suspect it may be the…
Bolivia’s teachers getting ‘presidential’ laptops
Bolivia's government is giving school teachers free laptops with a prominent detail that is generating criticism for President Evo Morales. A stenciled image of a smiling Morales is…
Digital badges could help measure 21st-century skills
How can schools accurately measure and categorize a student’s 21st-century skills? The MacArthur Foundation hopes to solve this problem with a new competition that calls on participants to…
NYPD infiltration of colleges raises privacy fears
Investigators have been infiltrating Muslim student groups at Brooklyn College and other schools in the city, monitoring their internet activity and placing undercover agents in their ranks, police…
Teachers increasingly use home visits to connect with students’ families
The two high school teachers knocked at Apartment 512 of a Crystal City high-rise and waited to see the inside of Alvaro Nunez Alvarez’s life. Up to that…
Gov. Jerry Brown blasts data-based school reform
California Gov. Jerry Brown wrote a tough indictment of data-based school reform in a message he wrote vetoing a bill that would have changed the state’s accountability system…
Senator introduces legislation to limit class size
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Facilitating Outstanding Classrooms Using Size Reduction (FOCUS) Act of 2011 [bill summary, PDF], which the Senator says would provide states with…
K-12 education funding: Most states at levels lower than pre-recession, cut spending this year
Most states have cut state funding for schools this year, and a majority of states are funding K-12 education at levels lower than before the recession, after adjusting…
Pennsylvania gearing up for school reform
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is set to lead the rest of the Harrisburg lawmakers into the realm of school reform, Yahoo! News reports.
US asks court to halt Alabama’s immigration law
The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to stop Alabama officials from enforcing a strict immigration law that has already driven Hispanic students from public schools and…
Panel examines ed tech, personalized learning
Education policy in the United States should change and adapt to digital technologies that make personalized learning a reality, agreed a number of panelists during an Oct. 6…
Using Dropbox as a course management tool
Today’s classroom teachers are increasingly seeking out simple ways to effectively share information and collect assignments over the internet. Numerous institutions now encourage the use of course websites…
Fifteen education documentaries that need to be made
We recently asked readers: “If you could choose a topic to be the focus of a movie/documentary about education, what would it be and why?” Here are the…
IDs identifying students based on test scores spark outrage
An Orange County, CA high school has come under fire from state education officials after they issued student ID cards that are color-coded based on their standardized tests…
Steve Jobs’ millennial fan club is devoted to Apple, but why?
When college students and 20-somethings talk about their childhoods, Apple products are often the mile-markers. It’s not just because many millennials are dedicated consumers. It’s partly because Apple…
What should—and shouldn’t—be in Senate No Child Left Behind bill
This Tuesday, leaders of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are expected to introduce a “base bill” draft for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind,…
Could more vocational programming save public schools?
How do you bring focus to students in a system where their education is complicated by budget shortfalls, labor disputes and violent crime in their surrounding neighborhoods? Asks…
Tradeoffs: Reduce class sizes or increase teacher pay?
Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second language, with a reading exercise,…
HISD reform effort nets math gains, but reading falls flat
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Ed-tech firms take center stage at Minnesota forum
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Report: Minority students face harsher punishments
Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according to a new report by the National Education Policy…
Obama appoints Shakira to education commission
President Obama has appointed Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll—the Colombian singer better known around the world as Shakira—to a presidential commission on education for Hispanics, the Washington Post reports.
Watch: Fed up with lunch blogger who exposed bad school lunches revealed
It all started one day at the beginning of last year when she forgot to pack her lunch. Mrs. Q--a pseudonym that this elementary school teacher used for…
Accused Atlanta schools officials want erasure analysis tossed
The lawyer for four high-ranking Atlanta Public Schools officials told Channel 2 Action News he will ask a judge to throw out an erasure analysis that is key…