This Week In Education: AM News: Edujobs Stalled, USDE Rules Delayed

This Week In Education: AM News: Edujobs Stalled, USDE Rules Delayed

AM News: Edujobs Stalled, USDE Rules Delayed

by Alexander Russo

Aid to states, the jobless faces Senate hurdles AP: A bill providing jobless benefits and tens of billions of dollars in new aid for states and Medicare payments for doctors hangs by a thread in Congress despite lingering worries of another recession without it... Jobs-Bill Backers Searching For Strategy to Win Passage EdWeek: Supporters of a federal education jobs bill were still searching for a legislative vehicle late last week... Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/education/16education.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Education Dept. Delays Rules on For-Profit Colleges NYT: The Education Department split off a decision on the treatment of for-profit college programs whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans... White House Proposes Tighter Rules for Recruiting Students WSJ: The rules, slated to take effect July 2011, would apply to the more than 600 colleges and universities supported by federal student aid. But some of the regulations take aim directly at for-profit higher education, a growing sector that federal officials want to rein in...Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama planWashington Post: The Obama administration proposed to tighten oversight of the booming for-profit sector of higher education on Tuesday, with rules that aim to curtail aggressive recruiting practices and that require schools to disclose graduation and job-placement rates to prospective students...

Media: California Ed News Blog Joins Slew Of Others

by Alexander Russo

A newish blog called The Educated Guess has joined a crowded field of nonprofit funded education news blogs, according to this roundup that notes that education coverage is following the path of foundation-funded health care reform sites which have long been around. Written by a former San Jose Mercury News journalist named John Fensterwald, Educated Guess is funded by the Hewlett Foundation and housed at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation. Is it any good? No idea. Will it last? Who knows. But maybe you do. I won't bore you with my thoughts about the nonprofit model.

Voices in Urban Education

Voices in Urban Education

Beyond the Individual Teacher: How Collective Practice Leads to Higher Teaching Quality By Marla Ucelli-Kashyap, ed. To maintain teaching quality in hard-to-staff schools, education leaders need to view teaching not just as an individual act, but as a collective activity within and beyond school walls. Read More..>>

How Best to Add Value? Strike a Balance between the Individual and the Organization in School Reform

By Susan Moore Johnson

What is the crucial role of the school as an organization in enhancing teaching quality, in addition to recruiting and rewarding the most talented individual teachers?

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Social Capital: The Collective Component of Teaching Quality

By Carrie Leana

Why should current discussions of human capital in education always include the often-overlooked but crucial role of social capital?

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Compensation and Collaboration: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Teaching Effectiveness

By Jonathan Eckert

How can school-level structures help develop effective teachers by supporting both individual teacher quality and collective teaching quality?

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Professional Learning Communities: Building Blocks for School Culture and Student Learning

By Milbrey McLaughlin and Joan Talbert

How can student-centered, data-driven professional learning communities improve school culture, instructional quality, and student outcomes?

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A Pioneering Collaboration to Improve Reading in Central Falls

By Christine Wiltshire, Frances Gallo and Kath Connolly

How did one unusual partnership between an urban school district and a charter school share best teaching practices and collectively support early reading proficiency?

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Collective Practice: Strategies for Sustainable Improvement

By Robert Kronley and Marla Ucelli-Kashyap

Why do policy-makers and partners seeking to help sustain instructional improvement need to broaden the prevailing policy focus beyond teaching as an isolated act?

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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Conversations about Teaching, Blocking, Motivating with Dr. Garcia's Students

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Conversations about Teaching, Blocking, Motivating with Dr. Garcia's Students

Conversations about Teaching, Blocking, Motivating with Dr. Garcia's Students

by coolcatteacher@gmail.com (Victoria A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher)

Spent some time today answering questions from Dr. Garcia's class about teaching. Below are some of the questions and links to the blogs of the students that asked them. Please consider going to the blogs below and leaving your own thoughts. Inspiring conversation shows the power of our new interconnected world so bring these educators in with your thoughts and conversation! All of the students are listed on their wiki and I'll try to get to all of the conversations, but am not sure I'll be able to. Would you help me?

US Education Dept Avoids 'Gainful Employment' In Reform Draft - WSJ.com

US Education Dept Avoids 'Gainful Employment' In Reform Draft - WSJ.com

US Education Dept Avoids 'Gainful Employment' In Reform Draft

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday will propose sweeping reforms to a number of issues governing higher education, including attempting to define a credit hour, penalizing schools for misrepresenting their qualifications or offerings and tightening rules governing recruiter compensation.

Most notable about the recommendations, known as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, is what's absent, as the Education Department chose not to tackle a hotly debated measure that would punish schools for graduating students with high debt-to-income ratios in an attempt to measure how well they prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. For-profit schools ...

Black students trail white classmates in gaining a first EducationNews.org

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Big man shortage on campus 6.16.10 - Charlotte Allen - It's well-known that there's a severe gender imbalance in undergraduate college populations: About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male, the culmination of a trend in which significantly fewer young men than young women either graduate from high school or enroll in Black students trail white classmates in gaining a first 6.16.10 - Black students are more than three times less likely to be awarded a first-class university degree than their white classmates, a major study has revealed. States Seek Federal Waivers to Cut Special Education 6.16.10 - Faced with budget woes, a handful of states look to a little-used legal provision to offer an escape hatch from federal spending mandates. ... Chicago School Board opens door to 35 in a class 6.16.10 - Chicago School Board members Tuesday tackled their worst fiscal crisis since Mayor Daley's 1995 school takeover by granting school officials the power to raise class sizes to up to 35 students for the next two years. ... U.S. Education Dept. Delays Rules on For-Profit Colleges 6.16.10 - The Education Department said Tuesday that it had split off and delayed a decision on the most controversial part of proposed new student-aid regulations - the treatment of for-profit college programs whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans. ...

The story behind rise in Texas test scores The Answer Sheet - A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

The Answer Sheet - A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

The story behind rise in Texas test scores

Good news: Texas schoolchildren performed better on the 2010 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills this year than they did last,according to preliminary results released this month.

Bad news: It turns out that students could pass the test answering fewer questions correctly than in 2009.

For those who want the world to run by the results of standardized tests,the Houston Chronicle’s story behind the story of the gains on the TAKS should be a cautionary lesson in relying too much on test scores and reform driven by “data.” Numbers can lie, and often do, in any field, including education; just ask those folks who believed Bernard Madoff’s investment numbers.

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Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan

Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan

Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan The Obama administration proposed to tighten oversight of the booming for-profit sector of higher education on Tuesday, with rules that aim to curtail aggressive recruiting practices and that require schools to disclose graduation and job-placement ...

Fairfax public schools could get corporate donations through proposed nonprofit Cash-strapped and seeking new sources of revenue, Fairfax County's public school system is again reaching out to the private sector. Public school - Education - Virginia - United States - School Districts

Outlaws motorcycle gang members indicted in Virginia Twenty-three members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang have been indicted by a grand jury in Virginia on charges they were part of a complex criminal enterprise that engaged in assaults, kidnapping, drug dealing, illegal gambling and even attempted ...

Footage of Bowie High School beating on YouTube has authorities investigating

by Mike McPhate

Prince George's County authorities are investigating the beating of a student in Bowie High School after video of the assault was posted on Facebook, school officials said Tuesday.

How important are school gadgets?

Some educators wonder how much high-tech tools raise achievement.

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After Betts, Shaw kids moving on

Last year a group of eighth-graders made a request that Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee took as dramatic evidence of the cultural change Principal Brian Betts was bringing to Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. They told Rhee that they liked the school so much they wanted to stay on for ninth grade. Rhee granted the unusual wish of about 100 students, and then extended their stay through 10th grade beginning this fall.

But Betts's April 15 murder has apparently brought Shaw's experimental expansion to an end. Rhee spokeswoman Jennifer Calloway said in a statement Tuesday that the school system has decided not to offer

Senior Bertrand Ngampa gives a presentation on an interactive whiteboard at W.T. Woodson High in Fairfax County. (Dayna Smith/Post)

Newark schools superintendent waits to see if contract will be renewed | NJ.com

Newark schools superintendent waits to see if contract will be renewed | NJ.com

Newark schools superintendent waits to see if contract will be renewed

Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 6:52 AM Updated: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 7:00 AM

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NEWARK — Schools superintendent Clifford Janey's contract states that the state's education commissioner is required to tell him by Sept. 1 if his three-year contract will be renewed in 2011, and the state has not given any indication to their leanings, a report on NJ Spotlight said.

The superintendent for the district, controlled by the state since 1995, is appointed by the governor and education commissioner, according to the report. Janey, who had been a superintendent at Washington D.C., was appointed by then-Gov. Jon Corzine in 2008 after a contentious search, the report said. Newark Mayor Cory Booker has been adamant about mayoral control of the school system once the state's power recedes.

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• Superintendent Clifford Janey releases plan to improve Newark schools

• New Newark Superintendent Clifford Janey already changing schools