This Week In Education: NCLB: Boehner's The Only Thing That Matters

This Week In Education: NCLB: Boehner's The Only Thing That Matters

NCLB: Boehner's The Only Thing That Matters

by Alexander Russo

Newsweek's Ben Adler quotes Tom Harkin saying he hopes to have a bipartisan NCLB reauthorization bill through committee by summertime, joining the happy talk that's been coming from Duncan and the White House and to a lesser extent George Miller. I still haven't heard similar words from Boehner, though -- he's really the only one who counts -- and I while I understand the need for the education team to push for its own issues withi

Ideas: A "West Point" For Teachers?

by Alexander Russo

We need a new National Education Academy, modeled after our military academies, to raise the status of the profession and to support the R.& D. that is essential for reinventing teaching, learning and assessment in the 21st century. -- Tony Wagner on improving teacher quality in a recent NYT Friedman column

AM News: RTTT States Retaining Districts (Mostly)

by Alexander Russo

Unique Bilingual Education Program Spreading Across New Jersey Hechinger Report: In the Garden State, Long Branch joins Elizabeth, Perth Amboy and Plainfield as one of the fewer than 400 dual-language programs nationwide, according to the Center for Applied Linguistics, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit... Va. Attorney General: Teachers Can Take Phones, Read Texts If Students Break Rules WTOP: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says in an advisory opinion if a teacher has reasonable suspicion that a student is breaking state law or school rules with his cellphone, the teacher can confiscate it and look at stored messages... States Submit Race to Top Plans, and Work to Keep Districts on Board EdWeek: When Florida turned in its plan this week, 62 of the original 65 districts are still on board, Tom Butler, a spokesman for the the state's department of education, said in an e-mail. In Ohio, 50 of the initial 538 participating districts and schools have dropped out.