Phony accountability in Rhee’s D.C.
What is going to happen to the D.C. school system for failing to keep its promise to the federal government in its successful Race to the Top funding?
First, the promise: D.C. schools officials, who won $75 million in 2010, said in the application that it could produce a reading proficiency rate of 56.6 percent in 2011 if it was a Race to the Top winner (which it was last year).
That didn’t happen.
Read full article >>Why librarians should be more like Lady Gaga
School libraries around the country are being dramatically cut as government officials look for places to cut their budgets — even though research shows that the country’s highest-performing students come from schools with good library centers.
This is a version of a post written by The Daring Librarian, otherwise known as, Gwyneth Anne Jones, who works as a teacher-librarian in Laurel, Md., and who writes The Daring Librarian blog. She was named a “mover and shaker” of 2011 by the Library Journal, and is on the board of directors of the International Society for Technology in Education.
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