EducationNews.org - Kids' failure is adult's 'success'

EducationNews.org - Kids' failure is adult's 'success'

Kids' failure is adult's 'success' 7.12.10 - Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott did something last week that you very rarely see in Austin: He stood up the legislative committee that controls the funding for his bureaucracy, the Texas Education Agency. School districts slow to tap into federal stimulus funds 7.12.10 - Federal authorities are encouraging school districts to spend education stimulus money to save jobs and blunt the effects of statewide budget cuts, but districts have been slow to draw their share of the funds. ... College orientation grows up 7.12.10 - A generation ago, college orientation lasted little more than a day. If parents were needed, it was mostly for their wallets. Now schools are putting more emphasis on orientation, hoping it will boost student success and avert problems during the school year. ... A Chosen Few Are Teaching for America 7.12.10 - MICHAEL WINERIP - Teach for America has become an elite brand that will help build a résumé, and in a bad economy, it's a two-year job guarantee with a good paycheck.

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Grading Diane Ravitch's education ideas Diane Ravitch was for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) before she was against it. NCLB became law in January 2002, and Ravitch - a former assistant secretary of education - says her support for it "remained strong" for nearly five years, until Nov. 30, 2006. ... It is easier to promise shiny schools than better teaching The Coalition has gone for the difficult option on education - and Labour's taunts have strengthened its resolve, says Matthew d'Ancona. It is hard to improve upon the words of Rick Nye, the former head of the Conservative Research Department, and an unsung hero of Tory modernisation. According to Nye, New Labour's instinctive response to failing schools and educational decline was to "throw carpet tiles at the problem". Islamic curriculum one sided and biased Imagine the howls of outrage from the secular non-believers if the Catholic Church argued that every school subject had to include a Catholic perspective and that understanding Christianity is a vital part of our state education system. The Dropout Nation Podcast: Abandon Edujobs to Build Parent Power On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle examines the debate between congressional Democrats, President Barack Obama and centrist Democrat school reformers over the edujobs bill. ... The 'Aftershock Economy' A new book details the next stages in the financial collapse of our economy, including the bursting of the enormous U.S. government debt bubble. The International Monetary Unit - the IMU - is coming. Gold is going up, and the dollar is going down. The New World Order is ascendant. Siberian Education by Nicolai Lilin - Siberian Education is a memoir about the criminal socialisation of young people from a traditional Urka community, displaced into the small republic of ......