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District Management

National education reformer to lead Bridgeport

December 22, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
Paul G. Vallas, an education reformer who has led some of the nation's most troubled school systems, including the New Orleans district after Hurricane Katrina devastated that city,…
District Management

What research exposed about market-based ed reform in 2011

December 16, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three “major areas” of market-based education reform–charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations–then 2011 was…
District Management

Class assignment: Reinvent the high school

December 15, 2011December 14, 2011 by From wire service reports
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District Management

NCLB waivers require big changes, fast

December 6, 2011 by From wire service reports
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District Management

Big expansion, big questions for Teach for America

December 1, 2011November 30, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
The federal government and private investors are betting that Teach for America can help overcome poverty and ensure that disadvantaged children succeed, but others aren't so sure.
District Management

Opinion: The impact of Michelle Rhee’s ‘culture of urgency’

October 24, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
It is an almost universal tribute offered about Michelle Rhee’s 3 1/2 -year tenure of the Washington D.C. school district—that if she accomplished one thing, it was to…
District Management

States rewrite education rules, with or without Race to the Top

October 24, 2011October 21, 2011 by From wire service reports
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District Management

Opinion: Why education reform keeps failing

September 16, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
What are we to make of articles (here and here) extolling IMPACT, Washington D.C.’s fledging teacher evaluation system, for how many “ineffective” teachers have been identified and fired,…
Research

Education reform leaves teachers torn across demographics, new study reports

August 3, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
A new study conducted by the National Center for Education Information has uncovered both startling similarities and arresting differences between teachers based upon age, background and political inclination,…
District Management

Why Illinois might be a model for education reform

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor
Illinois’ Senate Bill 7, passed in June, ushered in numerous changes designed to improve teaching and learning—and it demonstrates the power of collaboration between education policy makers and…
District Management

Why school stakeholders should worry about the ‘funding cliff’

July 7, 2011July 5, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor
More than 80 percent of schools anticipate budget cuts in the upcoming school year, and administrators are scrambling to maintain school operations in the face of diminishing funds,…
District Management

Report shows education options expanding across U.S.

May 26, 2011May 26, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
When it comes to education options—from kindergarten up through college—the decision is no longer simple for students and their parents, a new federal report suggests.
District Management

NCLB fix lagging in Congress

May 20, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
The long-awaited overhaul of the nine-year-old No Child Left Behind law has begun in the U.S. House of Representatives with the first in a series of targeted bills—but…
District Management

No Child Left Behind: Can Obama revamp the education law?

March 21, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
The Obama Administration is doubling down on its push to overhaul the federal No Child Left Behind Act, reports TIME.
District Management

Stakeholders differ on college and career readiness

June 12, 2014March 8, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
A new report reveals that while teachers, parents, students, and executives believe that college- and career-readiness is essential to students’ post-high school success, the groups rate this differently…
District Management

Drive for education reform has teachers unions on the defensive

January 31, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
Are teachers unions the reason America's schools are failing? According to one increasingly popular narrative, they are, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
District Management

The best of eSN.TV from 2010

January 18, 2011January 14, 2011 by By Jenna Zwang, Assistant Editor
The past year has brought dozens of changes and ideas to improve education and ed tech—some good, and some controversial. The editors of eSchool News have assembled this…
District Management

Ed tech vs. larger class sizes: Worth the trade-off?

February 1, 2011January 13, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
Thrusting his state into the center of the debate over education reform, Idaho public schools chief Tom Luna called for more educational technology in the classroom and a…
District Management

How to be taken seriously as a reformer (don’t be an educator)

January 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
In the current upside-down world of education policy, there's one foolproof strategy for being taken seriously as a reformer: Make sure you're not an educator, says Gregory Michie,…
District Management

Troubled R.I. school hits bumps on road to education reform

January 6, 2011 by From staff and wire reports
The teachers at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, RI, struck a deal to get their jobs back last year after the entire staff was fired in…
District Management

Education reform: eight school chiefs to watch in 2011

January 3, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports
Education reform will be on many state education agendas across the nation in 2011, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
District Management

Where education reform is heading: From extreme to extremum

December 14, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
If you want to understand where public education reform is heading, look south and east to Florida, where the governor-elect, Rick Scott, is talking about a new funding…
Teaching & Learning

School chiefs form education-reform group

October 12, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jonathan Raymond has teamed up with six other school district superintendents to form a nonprofit that will push education reform, it was announced Monday,…
District Management

‘Waiting for Superman’: A simplistic view of education reform?

September 27, 2010 by Laura Ascione
“Waiting for ‘Superman,’” which opened Sept. 24 in New York and Los Angeles, has generated buzz for months in education circles. The film also offers a broad-brush indictment…
District Management

Putting our ideas of assessment to the test

January 26, 2011September 27, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
Here’s a pop quiz: What are the skills that today’s students will need to be successful in tomorrow’s workplace? The answer to this question has enormous implications for…
District Management

Study: Teacher bonuses failed to boost test scores

October 29, 2010September 21, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Offering big bonuses to teachers failed to raise students' test scores in a three-year study released Sept. 21 that calls into question the Obama administration's push for merit…
District Management

Wisconsin agency aims to transform education’s core

November 5, 2010June 10, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
With support from all of its 45 superintendents, a Wisconsin regional service agency is determined to reinvent the very nature of public education so that all students are…
District Management

Critics say administration’s blueprint is too similar to NCLB

October 29, 2010March 30, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
As the Obama administration seeks support for its plan to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), many education policy analysts worry that the new blueprint's guidelines…
Teaching Trends

Race to the Top finalists announced

July 7, 2011March 5, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The U.S. Department of Education has named 16 finalists in the first round of its Race to the Top competition, which will deliver $4.35 billion in school reform…
District Management

Duncan: Schools ‘need to be more creative’

December 17, 2009December 16, 2009 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
Education leaders in the United States must work to close the digital divide and ensure that all students have access to top-notch technology, while at the same time…
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