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District Management

Is there a national teacher shortage? Here’s what we know and don’t know

December 7, 2022September 2, 2022 by Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat
The ingredients are there for a teacher shortage and for it to be a harder than normal year for recruiting teachers
Students across the country are heading back to school. Will there be enough teachers waiting for them?
Curriculum

How to mine Sochi Olympics for teaching and learning

February 7, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
This is an updated version of a piece that Jeffrey S. Hacker, a teacher at Beall Elementary School in Rockville, wrote years ago for The Washington Post.
IT Management

A really scary headline about kindergarteners

February 6, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Rob Saxton is Oregon’s deputy superintendent of public instruction, reports the Washington Post.
District Management

Ravitch: The ‘White House’s obsession with data is sick’

February 5, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch has been blasting the Obama administration for a long time for education policies that have expanded the importance of standardized tests and…
District Management

Charter experiment ‘spinning out of control’

February 4, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
What is happening in Durham County, N.C.,  is exactly what charter school critics have long feared: the destabilization of the ... Read more
District Management

Why support for Common Core is sinking

January 27, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
“Hit the delay button.” That was the message New York’s senators sent to state Education Commissioner John King during last week’s hearing, the Washington Post reports.
District Management

Beware Chinese data: Its schools might not be so great

January 22, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
For much of my life, I have been obsessed with China, Jay Mathews reports for the Washington Post.
Teaching Trends

Some schools need $100 million for online Common Core tests

January 17, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
A new report from Maryland’s Education Department to the legislature says that the vast majority of schools in many of the state’s counties are not technologically prepared to…
District Management

A real school reform agenda for 2014

January 16, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
If you remember your No Child Left Behind history, 2014 is the year that all children were supposed to be scoring proficient on standardized tests, the Washington Post…
Teaching Trends

Funding formula shows potential to help disadvantaged

January 15, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Weighted student budgeting comes and goes in American school districts, the Washington Post reports.
Teaching Trends

America’s most challenging high schools

January 14, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio, reports the Washington Post.
District Management

Is teacher education a disaster?

January 13, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
One of the biggest debates in public education today is over how to best educate student teacher for the rigors of the classroom, the Washington Post reports.
District Management

Why teachers think Gov. Christie is a bully

January 10, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he’s not a bully, but there are plenty of teachers in New Jersey who would disagree, the Washington Post reports.
Curriculum

How lasting are the benefits of preschool?

January 9, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
As President Obama advocates for a dramatic expansion of publicly funded preschool, there is growing debate about whether preschool pays off academically for kids, says Michael Alison Chandler…
District Management

Should principals stop visiting classrooms?

January 8, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
Principals are above all supposed to be “instructional leaders” but exactly what that means — or how to be effective in that role — isn’t entirely clear, the…
District Management

I’m no Common Core fan, but give it a chance

January 7, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports
As our national battle over the Common Core standards escalates this year, remember that new standards and curricula rarely improve schools, says Jay Mathews for the Washington Post.
District Management

D.C. teacher at Friendship Tech Prep charter quits, says he was pressured to inflate grades

December 17, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Caleb Rossiter recently quit his job as a ninth-grade algebra teacher at the Friendship Tech Prep public charter school in Southeast Washington because, he says, his supervisors pressured…
Teaching Trends

The link between early childhood education and PISA scores

December 12, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Buried under the headlines of the last week about the newly released Program for International Student Assessment results — which showed American 15-year-old students nowhere near the top…
IT Management

Parents say they don’t need state test results

December 11, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Last month, I asked whether parents and grandparents were worried about threats to annual testing caused by the national switch to the Common Core standards, the Washington Post…
District Management

Why educating the educators is complex

December 5, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Smack in the middle of the fiery debates about teacher education is the troublesome fact that we lack a fitting and consensual definition of teaching itself, the Washington…
Teaching Trends

Gates, Zuckerberg chip in to fund broadband in schools

December 4, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are among several philanthropists who have pledged $9 million to a nonprofit organization that is trying to bring the…
District Management

Steubenville school superintendent indicted for obstruction in teen rape case

November 26, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
A school superintendent has been indicted on charges of obstructing justice and tampering with evidence by a grand jury investigating the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville,…
District Management

In New York City, all-male public schools aim to help at-risk boys

November 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Once seen as sexist and outdated, the all-male educational model has been resurrected to serve New York City’s poorest boys, a group feared to be more likely to…
District Management

The fetishization of international test scores

November 14, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Not one, not two, but 10 national educational organizations are planning to host a blowout digital event to talk about (what else?) international standardized test scores, the Washington…
District Management

What poor children need in school

October 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Most educational policy elites, whether in government or in the nonprofit sector, mean well, the Washington Post reports.
IT Management

Sad tales of AP tests gone wrong

October 16, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
With this region’s high concentration of Advanced Placement tests, AP stress, scores and credit are hot topics, The Washington Post reports.
District Management

Why the ‘GREAT Teachers and Principals Act’ is not great

October 10, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
During the last few years, The New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), a major private funder of K-12 charter schools, has been intensely involved in creating and promoting a…
District Management

The failures of for-profit K-12 schools

October 7, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The Washington Post reports that for all of the three-decade hype about how business practices applied to K-12 schools will make them more efficient and high performing.
District Management

Education reform advocate John White: We’re in danger of becoming the enemy

October 2, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Advocates for charter schools, teacher evaluations and other changes to public education that have become mainstream in recent years are at risk of turning into the establishment they…
District Management

Veteran teacher: The key failing of school reform over decades

September 30, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The tug of war over standardized tests is just the latest round of a struggle I’ve watched many times before, The Washington Post reports.
District Management

Bill Gates: ‘It would be great if our education stuff worked but…’

September 27, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
“It would be great if our education stuff worked, but that we won’t know for probably a decade.” That’s what Bill Gates said on Sept. 21 (see video…
District Management

School superintendents speak out on key issues

September 25, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Have Washington area school systems been hurt by federal budget cuts? Are students being bombarded with too many standardized tests? asks the Washington Post.
District Management

Is education about increasing earning power?

September 20, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The Washington Post reports: In “The Smartest Kids In The World,” journalist Amanda Ripley’s new book about effective educational systems around the globe, there’s a scene in which…
District Management

What are educators talking about?

September 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
If you have ever tried to get through a meeting at school and struggled over the terminology that educators threw at you, you will share Liz Willen’s feelings…
Teaching Trends

L.A. sheriff: Pay for preschool, not prisons

September 4, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The man who runs the nation’s largest jail system came to Washington on Monday to promote what he considers a potent tool in crime-fighting: universal pre-school, The Washington…
District Management

Should teachers be parents first?

September 3, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Should people who want to be teachers become parents first? asks The Washington Post. The idea is raised in this ... Read more
District Management

How much ‘value’ can teachers really add to student achievement?

August 30, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
As a high school English teacher, it’s heartening to think I can “add value” to all of my students, according to The Washington Post.
District Management

The most ridiculous ed idea of the week (so far)

August 28, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
The Washington Post reports that the most ridiculous ed idea of the week so far comes to us from Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott organized a three-day education…
District Management

What we know about schools — but choose to ignore

August 19, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Here’s an important piece on school reform by P.L. Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina, the Washington Post reports.
Curriculum

Stephen Colbert adds new subject to science education

August 13, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports
Stephen Colbert had some fun Monday night talking about science education with guest Rep. Rush Holt, The Washington Post reports.
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