$350 Million 'Race to the Common Test' Starts Now EdWeek's Michele McNeil: The USDE will award grants to groups of states to create rigorous common tests to complement the common standards effort already...
Prom Regulations Yglesias: The students in violation were allowed to stay at the prom, but the following week, each was given the option of receiving corporal punishment or accepting a three-day suspension from school...
Details emerge on educator effectiveness bill EdNews CO Todd Engdahl: The long-awaited educator effectiveness bill would set new baseline standards for the evaluation and tenure of teachers and principals but leave the details to an appointed commission and the State Board of Educationl...
Jaime Escalante changed U.S. schools forever Jay Mathews: Whenever I suggested that the great teaching I was seeing at Garfield might be the reason so many students were succeeding in AP, people at parties dismissed me as
