Sustainable change starts with educator voice
When educators help shape the work of their schools, change becomes a shared commitment to better outcomes for students
Incident response plans help district address student safety
Following the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the East Coast, U.S. Homeland Security determined that schools and hospitals…
Michigan Republicans: Let’s privatize public school teaching
In Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits, public school districts across the state have already outsourced their bus drivers, cafeteria workers, sports coaches, and janitors to…
New Jersey launches pilot teacher evaluation program, equally weighing tests and class success
New Jersey launches a pilot program today that will evaluate teachers at 10 schools by equally weighing a student's academic and classroom performance, the Huffington Post reports.
President Obama gives back-to-school interview to kids
President Obama is a busy man, but not too busy to give a back-to-school interview to members of Scholastic’s Kids Press Corps, the Washington Post reports.
Viewpoint: A rational approach to student-teacher ratios
What number of students should each teacher teach? How many is “too many”? It turns out that the right answer is: It depends.
AT&T, DOJ square off in a battle with implications for schools
The Justice Department’s rejection of AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA will test new federal guidelines on challenging mergers, as ... Read more
Bullying law puts New Jersey schools on spot
Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools can be reported to the police by their classmates this fall through anonymous…
Lawsuit accuses security guard of handcuffing first-graders for talking in class
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday that the boy was among several 6- and…
Democratic Michigan state representative resigns to join Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst
Michigan Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton is leaving office and moving to California to join Michelle Rhee's education reform group StudentsFirst, the Huffington Post reports.
4 of 7 public school board members spent beyond budgets
An Education News Colorado analysis of spending by Denver school board members shows that four of the seven blew their annual $5,000 budgets for the fiscal year ending…
Wisconsin teacher retirements double after cuts to benefits and collective bargaining
When students return Thursday for the first day of school across Wisconsin, many familiar faces will be gone, as teachers chose retirement over coming back in the wake…
Hybrid approach drives retention success
In 2007, when California Lutheran University (CLU) campus leaders noticed a drop in freshman return rates, they charged me with serving as CLU’s retention champion. As the first…
RheeFirst, Michelle Rhee attack site, defended by teachers union
In the eyes of Steven Brill, the American Federation of Teachers building a website attacking Michelle Rhee and masking its origins is worse than Rhee's creating a billion-dollar…
Mom gives back-to-school shoes to 700 needy kids in murdered son’s name
For Lynn Alderman, August is the cruelest month. It's the month her son, Joey, was born. It's also the month he was shot and killed three years ago…
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi join forces in displays
The display businesses of three major Japanese electronics makers are joining forces to become more competitive in small and medium-sized panels—a sector that's expected to grow because of…
Opinion: Teachers get little say in a book about them
Can an education reform movement that demeans and trivializes teachers succeed? It’s hard to imagine, but that is what is going on in parts of America today, the…
Growth scores give schools No Child Left Behind alternative
Orr Middle School Principal George Leavens isn't surprised that only half his students tested at grade level in math and reading last school year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal…
The plight of great teachers
Let's say you are a teacher, and not just any teacher. You are one of those special teachers we hear about in news and policy discussions—the supposedly rare…
‘Principal pipeline’ project targets six major districts
Six school districts will receive funding from a $75 million initiative that will help them develop a much larger corps of effective school principals and determine whether this…
Buyout packages becoming common for departing school superintendents
From Massachusetts to California, a rising number of school superintendents who find themselves at odds with their boards of education are enjoying softer landings thanks to generous farewell…
Drug test proposal inspires 8-day teacher strike in Illinois
Angered by a newly proposed random drug testing policy, the teachers union in the Illini Bluffs School District in the central Illinois town of Glasford, located 15 miles…
What’s really wrong with ‘parent trigger’ laws
“Parent trigger” laws, first passed in California and then elsewhere in the country, typically state that over 50 percent of the parents in a school or schools “feeding…
Opinion: When roommates were random
Today I am a college professor, and I am sad that most of my students will not experience what I did back when Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers,…
New York spikes education software deal with Wireless Generation
New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with an education software firm owned by Rupert Murdoch because of the media mogul’s phone hacking scandal in Great…
Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools
Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic…
School superintendent gives up $800K in pay
Some people give back to their community. Then there's Fresno County, Calif., School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's really giving back. As in $800,000—what would have been his compensation…
Missouri judge blocks Facebook limits for teachers
A new Missouri law prohibiting teachers from having private online conversations with students suffered a double setback Aug. 26. First, a judge blocked it from taking effect because…
NYC ordered to release teacher performance data
A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school teachers’ effect on their student test scores—complete with the teachers’…
Cheating teachers, principals found in 5 more Georgia schools
Richard Hyde, the investigator behind the July bombshell report of extensive teacher cheating in Atlanta's schools, expects to have the next installment of the unfolding saga ready by…
15 ways more funding could change education
If money were no object, what would your "dream school" look like—and what it would offer students and teachers? Perhaps surprisingly, many readers responded with practical, common-sense ideas—which…
Jobs resigns as Apple CEO; educators ponder his ed-tech legacy
Though Steve Jobs wasn’t at Apple’s helm during the twelve years the company established itself as the leader in educational technology in the 1980s and 90s, it was…
Opinion: Why great teachers aren’t enough to make schools work
We love to talk about teachers—good teachers, bad teachers. Our entire narrative about schools seems to revolve around finding good teachers and firing bad ones, says Harold Kwalwasser,…
Watch: Teachers rap a public letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan
Twitter's 140-character allowance wasn't enough for anonymous rapping teacher duo Two Teachers and a Microphone to talk education with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, reports the Huffington…
Opinion: What the U.S. can learn about education from Canadians
There is a debate, if that’s what you can even call it, raging in America about how to improve our public education system, Reuters reports.
How to fix our math education
There is widespread alarm in the United States about the state of our math education, reports the New York Times.
Student-inspired strike in Chile erupts in violence
A 48-hour national strike got off to a violent start in Chile on Wednesday, as demonstrators clashed with police around Santiago in the worst unrest of Sebastian Pinera's…
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