Education Research Report: Eighth-Grade Algebra Enrollment Focus of New NCES Report

Education Research Report: Eighth-Grade Algebra Enrollment Focus of New NCES Report

Eighth-Grade Algebra Enrollment Focus of New NCES Report Ω Algebra is a “gateway” course for the sequence of mathematics and science courses that prepares students for success in college and careers in competitive mathematics- and science-related disciplines. Eighth-grade algebra enrollment in the United ...

State Education Ranking Shows Vermont #1, South Carolina Last ALEC publishes 16th Edition of its Report Card on American Education The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has released its Report Card on American Education: Ranking K-12 State Performance, Progress, and Reform, a comprehensive overview of ...

New Survey of Education Professors Shows Subtle Signs of Change Ω More than eighty percent of the nation’s education professors think it’s “absolutely essential” that teachers be lifelong learners, but far fewer believe it’s as necessary for teachers to understand how to work with state standards, tests, and ...

More Attention Should Be Paid To Developmental Sciences Ω In Both Educator Preparation and School Reform While the belief that teachers and school leaders must understand and address the needs of all children has become a core premise of how we prepare educators, too few enter the profession with an ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: School of Excellence in Education

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: School of Excellence in Education

Epic 1 on 1 Charter School *CHARTER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS ASSISTED BY OKC'S BEN HARRIS; OKLAHOMA CITY MAN IS BEHIND A DOZEN CHARTER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE TIES TO FORMER COLLEAGUES WHO NOW RUN NEW COMPANIES,* September 5, 2010, The Oklahoman (OK) Ben Harris, an ...

Jesse Jackson Academy *STATE SAYS JESSE JACKSON ACADEMY OWES $3.2 MILLION,* December 5, 2008, Houston Chronicle A handful of teachers and families turned out at the Jesse Jackson Academy this morning to clean out their classrooms and get their transcripts to take to a ...

Chicago Preparatory Charter School *CHARTER SCHOOL FAILS THE TEST, SHUTS DOORS*, January 17, 1999, Chicago Sun-Times (IL) Chicago Preparatory Charter School was conceived with lofty goals, by an official with Mayor Daley's Office of Substance Abuse Policy, for a needy student ...

School of Excellence in Education *TEA TAKES CONTROL OF CITY'S LARGEST CHARTER SCHOOL DISTRICT*, March 3, 2010, Brian Collister blog, San Antonio Express-News …The city's largest charter school district is now under the control of the Texas Education Agency. Dr. Jack Cockrill ...

Pocono Mountain Charter School POCONO MOUNTAIN PULLS CHARTER FOR SCHOOL; CLASSES TO CONTINUE IN TOBYHANNA WHILE BOARD'S DECISION IS APPEALED, October 7, 2010, Pocono (PA) Record The future of Pocono Mountain Charter School was dealt a serious blow when its charter was revoked by ...

Stockwell Preparatory Academy *SPELLING SLIP SNARES STUDENT*, September 28, 2010, Daily Press & Argus (Livingston County, MI) Cory Keir was so proud and excited about designing the yearbook cover for Brighton's Charyl Stockwell Preparatory Academy for the 2009-2010 school year ...

Capitol High Academy *FOCUS TURNS TO ENROLLMENT; CAPITOL HIGH OFFERS REFERRAL FEE*, October 6, 2010, The Advocate (*Baton Rouge*, LA) With enrollment down, Capitol High this year devised a novel strategy: Pay $100 to anyone who successfully refers a new student. “When ...

Pennsylvania charter and cyber charter schools *PA AUDITOR GENERAL JACK WAGNER SAYS FLAWED CHARTER SCHOOL FORMULAS COSTING TAXPAYERS MILLIONS; CALLS FOR MORATORIUM UNTIL GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RENDELL ADMINISTRATION CLOSE LOOPHOLES*, October 5, 2010, PR Newswire HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 5 ...

KIPP Tech Valley Charter School 2 VIEWS OF KIPP'S NUMBERS, October 6, 2010, Times Union (Albany, NY) …By the numbers, KIPP Tech Valley Charter School is Albany's best public school. Virtually every eighth-grader passed the 2009 English and math exams. The ...

New Orleans charter schools *IT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: MOST CHARTERS DON’T COMPLY WITH OPEN-MEETINGS LAW,* October 7, 2010, The Lens (New Orleans, LA) The Louisiana charter school law is designed to free independently run public-school campuses from many of the bureaucratic ...

Harbor Science and Arts Charter School *FIRST-GRADE TEACHER SAUDA JOHNSON DOCKED $9,700 FOR MISSING TWO DAYS OF WORK AT CHARTER SCHOOL,* October 7, 2010, NY Daily News A Charter school teacher lost two months' pay for missing two days of work, a move state officials are reviewing. ...

This Week In Education: Teaching: "The Wire" Version Of Monopoly

This Week In Education: Teaching: "The Wire" Version Of Monopoly

Teaching: "The Wire" Version Of Monopoly

by Alexander Russo

The Wire and Monopoloy are both about aggressive capitalism and so it's only inevitable that there's a newversion of Monopoly based on the HBO series, including a Baltimore City Schools icon (of unknown value). Via Kottke. You can definitely use this at home as long as you're willing to explain some things to the kids. What I'm not sure

Technology: Ed Reform's First iPhone App

by Alexander Russo

I was wondering who in the ed reform world was was going to bother making one

DREAM Act Could Send These Kids to College - The Bay Citizen

DREAM Act Could Send These Kids to College - The Bay Citizen

DREAM Act Could Send These Kids to College

A bill to allow some illegal immigrantspay in-state tuition awaits the governor's signature

By WHITNEY PENNINGTON, OAKLAND NORTH on September 27, 2010 - 12:34 p.m. PDT

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Undocumented youth like Jessica hope for the passage of the California DREAM Act.

Talking about it makes her uneasy. She pivots back and forth in a swivel chair as her hands wrestle in her lap. “It’s not something kids talk about at my school,” said Jessica, a 15-year-old Oakland High student. “You know who is, but people don’t come out and say it.”

The “it” upon which Jessica treads lightly is residency status. Jessica is an undocumented immigrant, who moved to Oakland from Mexico with her mother and older sister when she was 2 years old. Although she has spent most of her life in the United States, Jessica is not

Learn Computer Skills, Get a Free PC

Deal offered to parents in Richmond's troubled Iron Triangle

By EMILY BENDER, RICHMOND CONFIDENTIAL on September 29, 2010 - 12:02 p.m. PDT

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Carolina Garcia, a parent in the Iron Triangle, begins computer training at the Nevin Community Center

It's a Monday morning and five middle-aged Latino adults are gathered in the modest computer lab at the Nevin Community Center in Richmond. As they concentrate on their assignment, retyping an article from The New Yorker magazine, the room is quiet save for the hesitant tapping of computer keys. One woman leans forward intently, her eyes moving between screen and keyboard as she focuses on finding the right key.

After a few short classes, these students will

The Answer Sheet - Jon Stewart and Lewis Black blew it on schools

The Answer Sheet - Jon Stewart and Lewis Black blew it on schools

Jon Stewart and Lewis Black blew it on schools

Lewis Black’s piece on “the public school crisis” that aired on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” the other night left me wondering why education reform hasn’t been more of a high value target for Stewart or, for that matter, Steven Colbert. The reform world is dripping with hilarious promise. There are characters to lampoon: School superintendents who are education’s fundamentalists, believing only they know the way to reform heaven.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Quotables

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Quotables

Quotables

by Mike Klonsky

When billionaires' goals do harm

Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a former education columnist at The New York Times. I often use his book, Class and Schools, in my Sociology of Education course. In this N.Y. Times Opinion piece, Rothstein shows how the growing influence of billionaire philanthropists over public education and school reform violates democratic control of the schools.

We should reconsider our infatuation with billionaires substituting philanthropy (and their own

Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control?

by Alyson Klein

This was supposed to be the year in which Congress finally reauthorized the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, which was supposed to be rewritten back in 2007. Almost everyone sees problems with the current law, but so far, there hasn't even been a formal bill introduced remaking it. (Just a doomed discussion draft, introduced by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., back in 2007.)

Now it looks like Republicans are going to take the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. And the question is...might they be able to work with the Obama administration to get ESEA done before the

Pedro Noguera at Parent University | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Pedro Noguera at Parent University | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Pedro Noguera at Parent University

by Erika Owens

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On Oct. 5 the District kicked off its second year of Parent University, an initiative led by the Office of Parent, Family, Community Engagement & Faith-Based Partnerships, with a talk by Pedro Noguera, urban education scholar and Professor at New York University.Photo: Monica Lyons-Jones
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Noguera, who participated in the Notebook's roundtable on building a positive school climate, said that parent involvement is crucial to student success.

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'Race to Nowhere' film highlights stress students face in high-pressure academics

'Race to Nowhere' film highlights stress students face in high-pressure academics

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By Donna St. George

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 7, 2010; 9:55 AM

It was as if their private worries had come to life on screen: Teenagers so pressured to get As, to fill their college resumes with sports and music and language, they start losing their grip. Long nights of homework leave them exhausted. Stress becomes stomach pain and anorexia and depression. Some turn to cheating or pills. Others just give up.

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Riveted to this disturbing tableau were more than 300 parents and educators, including Elise Browne Hughes