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Are qualified teachers always effective teachers?

October 29, 2010August 26, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Amid a growing consensus that “highly qualified” doesn’t necessarily mean “highly effective,” a movement is under way to reshape how the nation views successful teaching.
District Management

$3.4B for 9 states, D.C. in Race to the Top grants

November 8, 2010August 24, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S.…
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APQC: Process management can improve education

August 28, 2013August 12, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
An ambitious program aims to transform K-12 education outcomes by focusing on the processes through which schools strive to achieve those outcomes--and it already has led to positive…
District Management

Ed-tech innovators share their vision for education

July 7, 2011August 3, 2010 by From staff reports
From ideas on how Web 2.0 tools and game-based learning environments can help schools move beyond the industrial-era model of instruction, to the key question that should define…
District Management

Race to the Top program spurs school-reform debate

November 8, 2010July 28, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The U.S. Department of Education has named 18 states and the District of Columbia as finalists in the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" (RTTT)…
District Management

Are computers for every student a wise investment?

June 16, 2014July 26, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
Daily technology use in core subject-area classes, frequent technology use in intervention courses, and a low student-to-computer ratio can play a critical role in reducing dropout rates, new…
District Management

Forget grade levels: Schools try something new

November 8, 2010July 21, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
As Kansas City, Mo., students return to their age-assigned classrooms this fall, they will begin to take assessments in math and reading—tests that will determine their mastery of…
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NCTAF: Transform teaching through collaboration

January 17, 2012July 1, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
According to a new report, 21st-century teaching and learning can only occur if teachers and school staff work together as a collaborative team; simple adjustments to antiquated school…
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Smaller urban high schools found to boost achievement

October 29, 2010June 25, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg has systematically shut down large, failing high schools and replaced them with…
District Management

Microsoft’s Philly high school traveled rocky road

November 5, 2013June 15, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
When the Microsoft-designed School of the Future opened, the facility was a paragon of contemporary architecture, with a green roof, light-filled corridors and the latest classroom technology, all…
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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

Final common standards in English, math released

October 29, 2010June 2, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
A year-long effort to define a common set of academic standards for English and math culminated on June 2 with the release of the final version of the…
District Management

Videos highlight successful school reform

October 29, 2010May 19, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
To help local leaders with their own school-reform efforts, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has produced a new series of online videos highlighting successful school improvements from…
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Feds turn to ‘crowdsourcing’ for educational innovation

October 29, 2010May 10, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Education technology advocates hope that a new national online community will inspire entrepreneurs and educators to team up in developing and funding innovative solutions to some of education's…
District Management

Editorial: Threats to innovation

November 8, 2010May 5, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
In a recent speech, Education Secretary Arne Duncan argued that schools should have more flexibility in how they get all students to achieve. Unfortunately, his rhetoric doesn’t match…
District Management

Teacher of the Year: Education ‘must be learner-centered’

April 25, 2011May 4, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Facebook and digital video are among the many technology-based tools that Sarah Brown Wessling uses to engage her students—but just as important as that, it was her passion…
District Management

Feds to shape the future of assessment

November 5, 2013April 16, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
Federal officials are leading the charge to develop a new generation of summative, end-of-year exams that are delivered and scored by computer; focus on a deeper understanding of…
District Management

Author: ‘iGeneration’ requires a different approach to instruction

April 25, 2011April 12, 2010 by By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor
Today’s middle and high school students learn much differently from students just a few years older—and that's mainly because they’ve never known a world without the internet or…
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…
District Management

Obama offers blueprint for rewriting NCLB

July 7, 2011March 15, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
President Barack Obama on March 13 unveiled a plan to overhaul the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law championed by President George W. Bush.
District Management

Critics: Obama’s ed policies no better than Bush’s

October 29, 2010March 12, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
When it comes to education policy, President Obama is repeating the most grievous errors of his predecessor, charge a trio of venerable education policy analysts, including one—Diane Ravitch—best…
District Management

Teachers share their views on how to improve education

January 17, 2012March 3, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
In one of the largest national surveys of public school teachers, thousands of educators agreed that today’s students aren’t college-ready when they graduate from high school. Teachers' suggestions…
District Management

Plan to stem dropout rate stirs controversy

October 29, 2010March 1, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
The Obama administration is offering a $900 million carrot to the nation’s school systems to tackle what many view as an abysmal dropout rate that threatens America’s ability…
District Management

Obama urges states to raise academic standards

October 29, 2010February 22, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Saying America’s “primacy in the world” is at stake, President Barack Obama on Feb. 22 prodded states to raise their academic standards by using the best leverage he…
District Management

Are unions blocking school reform?

November 8, 2010February 17, 2010 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor
In a new film called Waiting for Superman, there is a scene in which hidden-camera video shows a teacher reading a newspaper and looking at his watch while…
District Management

Commentary: Data undermining

May 31, 2012February 17, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
Unions are taking heat for their stance on using data to measure teacher quality, but school districts bear some responsibility, too.
District Management

AASA keynote: Focus on children, or risk nation’s status

November 23, 2010February 14, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor
Referring to the significant challenges facing public education today as a crisis that threatens the nation’s status as a global leader, educational trailblazer Geoffrey Canada urged school leaders…
District Management

iSchools lift hopes in NYC

January 28, 2011May 15, 2009 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor
A series of theme-based high schools are springing up across New York City, based on a model that has been open for only a year but already is…
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