TRENTON — New Jersey's largest and poorest school districts will get the biggest boost from new federal education funding.
The state Education Department today told districts how it will allocate $268 million provided to New Jersey last month by Congress as part of a bill to save education jobs.
1) Waiting for Lois Lane
2) Unions Line Up to Oppose NEA in Oklahoma
3) Van Roekel Wants Edujobs Money Used to Rehire Teachers Who Were Never Laid Off
4) Working Mothers
5) More District Spending Tables Posted
6) Last Week’s Intercepts
7) Quotes of the Week
Rick Ayers is a professor of education at the University of San Francisco. He reviews the faux doc Waiting for Superman on Huffington Post.
Waiting for Superman accepts a theory of learning that is embarrassing in its stupidity. In one of its many little cartoon segments, it purports to show how kids learn. The top of a child’s head is cut open and a jumble of factoids is poured in. Ouch! Oh, and then the evil teacher union and regulations stop this productive pouring project. The film-makers betray no understanding of how people actually
The scheduling problems that have plagued high schools like Herbert Lehman in the Bronx and William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens have been blamed on poor summer planning and an influx of new students registering.
But the confusion has also been caused by an overloading of the servers the city uses for its high school scheduling system, according to e-mails a reader sent us today.
The reader forwarded us this series of e-mails that the team overseeing the city’s high school scheduling
For the second year, John Haley Elementary, part of the Irving Independent School District in Texas, has earned an Exemplary rating on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).
Typically, schools like Haley Elementary—with 89 percent of students classified as economically disadvantaged and 63 percent limited-English-proficient—are at risk for lower academic achievement. But Haley is bucking this trend with 2010 TAKS passing rates of 91 percent (reading), 98 percent (writing), 97 percent (math), and 99 percent (science).
There's no simple checklist for success like Haley's, but the notable factors at this school include:
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The massive flow of federal funding into schools has created a new and unfamiliar political dynamic in state elections this fall, with many candidates voicing concerns about the government involvement while acknowledging its role in saving jobs, propping up budgets, and supporting innovations in education.
State elected officials have a long history of opposing federal programs that they fear will encroach on their authority to set school policy.
But while some conservative candidates have railed against federal stimulus funding, arguing that it will heap future obligations on states, other contenders for governor and schools superintendent back that assistance, essentially agreeing with the Obama administration’s position that it will boost employment and school quality.
A number of state candidates explain that while they might normally oppose the
The problem with reviewing Nick Bilton's amazing new book, "I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted" isconfirmation bias. Nick says things I agree with, and therefore I'm likely to approve both of his arguments and the way in which he makes them. You might know Nick Bilton as the lead writer of the NYTimes Bits Blog. He has worked as the NYT's the Design Integration Editor and as a User Interface Specialist & Researcher for Times' Research & Development Lab. He also designed the first Britney Spears doll.
Nick is optimistic that his employer (the NYT's) and his industry (journalism) will be positively transformed by the digital disruption. I feel the same way about my employer and higher ed in general.
Nick believes that newspapers, and magazines have the opportunity to leverage technology to improve the quality of journalism while opening up new opportunities and markets. I believe that technology provides us both the opportunity and tools for higher education to transform how we construct and deliver learning, in ways that have the potential to both drive down costs and increase quality.
Nick argues that content creators are selling the entire experience, not just their content, and that pricing needs to reflect the quality and personalization of the total consumption
Printer-FriendlyEmail ArticleReprintsCommentsThe quest for the perfect pay-for-performance plan has been the holy grail of management experts for decades. So it is no surprise that as education reformers want principals to act more like CEOs and to boost teacher performance, they are turning to pay incentives—for schools, principals, and individual teachers—as the panacea for turning around school performance.
If industry is any guide, the bid to use incentive pay to improve education and teacher performance is illusive at best. To the extent that individualized incentives undermine
