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Grier wants new offers to run alternative school
3.9.10 - Houston Federation of Teachers President Gayle Fallon “That jerk is willing to throw these kids away rather than save them so he can divert a few dollars into his asinine new programs that no one wants,” she said.
Labour's push for 50% to attend university 'has devalued degrees'
3.9.10 - The Association of Graduate Recruiters said an 'obsession' with higher education had led to a boom in unchallenging courses at below-average institutions. ...
Judge to end oversight of city schools
3.9.10 - The often-contentious 26-year-old lawsuit that attempted to provide equality for Baltimore's special-education students but ultimately helped to change the course of the public school system is nearing an end after a federal judge agreed Monday to end his oversight. ...
Jay Mathews: Ravitch, unpredictable, still likes NCLB basics
3.9.10- Ravitch is our best living historian of education. In my view she is the best ever, since those who preceded her, including some of her mentors, did not write nearly as well. Her "Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms" is a masterpiece....
Generation Y children are 'harder to teach'
3.8.10 - A culture of "instant gratification" is making today's schoolchildren harder to teach, a headteachers' leader said yesterday....
$2b later, Kansas City, Mo., may close half its schools
3.8.10 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Kansas City was viewed as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many children were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-size swimming pool and another with recording studios ...
Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education
3.8.10 - Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity. ...
Julia Steiny: Fun career software is ‘Way to go’
3.7.10 - Today we meet the team of trainers implementing WaytogoRI’s career-exploration software at Westerly Middle School. Anthony, Kyle, Taylor, Justin, Jana and other eighth graders join me in a conference room. Except for a couple of prim girls, the kids all but melt with nonchalance into the furniture, and squirm discreetly as we talk, per the habits of their age group. ...
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
3.7.10 - AP - Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons....
10 Dallas ISD high schools fail to make the grade time and again
3.7.10 - Where is the black outrage? Is it only all about job entitlement and not teaching children.......
In Harlem, Epicenter for Charter Schools, a Senator Wars Against Them
3.7.10 - When hundreds of parents went to Albany last month to rally for charter schools, they were greeted by a parade of politicians offering encouragement and promises. ...
Charter school's seniors: They're all in
3.6.10 - The entire senior class of 107 students at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges....
Jay Mathews: KIPP helps worst students, study says
3.6.10 - Among the many controversies surrounding the Knowledge Is Power Program, the nation's most successful charter school network, is the suggestion that KIPP scores look good because their weakest students drop out. A new and unusually careful survey has found that in the case of at least one KIPP school, that's not true. ...
Analysis documents college 'grade inflation' over decades
3.6.10 - Grades awarded to U.S. undergraduates have risen substantially in the last few decades, and grade inflation has become particularly pronounced at selective and private colleges, a new analysis of data on grading practices has found....
Fire teachers in failing schools? It may work
3.6.10 - PROVIDENCE — When all the teachers were fired from Central Falls High School last week in a sweeping effort at school reform...
After Harvard Controversy, Conditions Change but Reputation Lingers
3.6.10 - TAMAR LEWIN - Harvard has changed in the five years since Lawrence H. Summers suggested that innate differences might explain why fewer women than men succeed in science and math....
Government diplomas are too easy for the brightest children
3.5.10 - Its report concluded: "Some question papers did not provide enough opportunities for more able candidates to demonstrate the extent of their knowledge, understanding and skills."...
California disqualified from receiving federal school funds
3.5.10 - No reason was given for the decision. Education leaders announced that 15 other states and Washington, D.C., are in the running for billions in grants under the Race to the Top reform program. ...
In New Book, Ravitch Recants Long-Held Beliefs
3.5.10 - Once an avid supporter of improving schools through accountability and choice, the scholar now says those ideas have led education astray. ...