Education" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Hedge Funds’ Leaders Rally for Charter Schools NYT: Hedge fund executives are thus emerging as perhaps the first significant political counterweight to the powerful teachers unions, which strongly oppose expanding charter schools in their current form....
Sam Houston High benefits from easier rating system Houston Chronicle: Despite an improvement in student test scores, Sam Houston benefited from the state's easier rating system last year.
Maryland teachers union objects to state's 'Race to the Top' draft proposal Washington Post: Maryland's largest teachers union said Friday that it has "serious concerns" with the state's draft application for the "Race to the Top" competition, putting a roadblock in the state's bid to win $250 million in federal grants. ...
Mistake forces Pr. William to extend elementary school days Washington Post: A calculation error by Prince William County school officials in the number of instructional hours students have banked will force county elementary schools to extend their school days 10 minutes -- a move that has upset School Board members and parents who were blindsided by the news...
Education" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Guest-Teaching Chinese, and Learning America NYT: A program brings teachers from China to the U.S. to teach language and culture, but the learning goes both ways...
Mass. hunting for star teachers Boston Globe: State education officials plan to announce today an aggressive campaign to recruit hundreds of successful teachers to work in underperforming schools in Boston and eight other troubled school districts, in hopes those teachers can spark a turnaround...More stories below.
Blaming Teachers Is Easy, But Is It Fair? NPR: When schools are failing and students aren't learning, who is responsible? The answer these days seems to be teachers. When it comes to education reform, most of the current focus is on making teachers accountable for their students' performance. But is it fair to assign so much of the burden for the success or failure of schools to teachers? NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports...
Socioeconomics Replacing Race in School Assignments EdWeek: Advocates hope to clear the path—blocked by the Supreme Court—to racial diversity in schools, through the use of poverty measures...
Six Districts Participate in National Standards Pilot EdWeek: The districts were chosen by the Council of Great City Schools to pilot math and reading standards that could someday set the bar for education nationwide...
2 NY teens arrested in plot to attack high school AP: A 17-year-old with a grudge against his former Long Island high school planned with his girlfriend to buy shotguns, enter his old school and indiscriminately shoot down students and teachers days before his ex-classmates were scheduled to graduate, police said Friday.
