Two of the top education posts in the state went through their second changing of the guard in the space of a year on Wednesday. Gov. Bobby Jindal's pick, John White, won the job of state superintendent and then quickly named New Orleans native Patrick Dobard to succeed him as head of the state's Recovery School District.
His decision to appoint Dobard to head the Recovery District will put an
The other day I was sitting through a school staff meeting. It was terrible.
Under our current administration, each meeting seems worse than the last.
Pointless. A checklist of what counts as poor professional practice.
We sat through two consecutive 20 minute power point presentations that had no context, no connection to each other or to any real needs we had. The sound on the last one didn’t work, so every bullet point was read to us.
At the conclusion, the Type 75 asked if there were any questions. I raised my hand and said, “I have a question.
Washingtonians, we must be able to look back at the track record so far of charter schools and learn from others’ mistakes. Charter schools are not the magic bullet and in fact distract from the real issues of poverty and the need for “wrap around” support for students in need.
The discussion regarding charter schools in our state is moving us away from focusing on the real issue of adequate funding. That is what we must rally around.
To follow is an article about the recent history of what has been termed “ed reform” or “school reform” in our country. It is a thoughtful look back at the charter school movement with thoughts on where we should go from
Ama Willock urges DOE officials not to close her son's school, Middle School for the Arts in Crown Heights
As Mayor Michael Bloomberg touted the success of the small schools opened during his tenure in his State of the City address, families and staff from one of them were preparing to fight the city’s closure plan.
The Department of Education opened Middle School for the Arts, or M.S. 587, in 2004 to replace M.S. 391, a much larger school that was persistently low-performing.
But the Crown Heights school never fulfilled its promise. Last year, only 13 percent of the 334 students met state proficiency standards in reading, and only 11 percent were proficient in math. In December, the city proposed to
Our faltering education system may be the most important threat to our economy and well-being, writes Nicholas D. Kristof, so it's frustrating that the presidential campaign is mostly ignoring the issue. The obvious policy solution is more pay for good teachers, more dismissals for weak teachers.
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Suppose your child is about to enter the fourth grade and has been assigned to an excellent teacher. Then the teacher decides to quit. What should you do?
The correct answer? Panic!
Well, not exactly. But a landmark new research paper underscores that the difference between a strong teacher and a weak teacher lasts a lifetime. Having a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25 percent more likely to go to college, the research suggests, and 1.25 percent less
