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Quest for Equity and Excellence: Accountability and Reform

literacies314 wrote 4 hours ago: … more →

Tags: Miscellaneous, Readings, No Child Left Behind, school accountability, School/Schooling in the 21st Century, Small Schools, Teaching and pedagogy

Some states consider replacing paper textbooks with digital resources

educblog wrote 16 hours ago: Education Week reports that California and other states are developing long-term plans to move away … more →

Tags: K-12, school funding, Technology in Education

Obama Administration's "Educate to Innovate" program seeks to 'make science cool'

educblog wrote 16 hours ago: The Obama Administration has made STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education one of its … more →

Tags: college preparation, curriculum, Education and Careers, K-12, school funding, Technology in Education

Imagine Schools Cash in on Education

cpspalding wrote 3 days ago: Reprinted from www.thatsrightnate.com – November 9, 2009 Dennis Bakke is on top of the educati … more →

Tags: Education, Charter Schools, Education reform, imagine schools, Dennis Bakke, ::The Family::

seek justice - One LA organizing for better schools

immanuelpres wrote 3 days ago: READ the cover story of this week’s Jewish Journal exploring the organizing work of One LA-IAF … more →

Tags: Seek Justice, In The News, Justice, Social Justice, Jewish Journal, One LA, IAF, Industrial Areas Foundation, Rabbi Dara Frimmer

Chutzpah, NY Times, The Ford Foundation, GM and Chinese Banks1 comment

ttoes wrote 1 week ago: Amazing news is being reported below the fold on page 43 of your friendly newspaper.  Can anyone hel … more →

Tags: AFT, Auto Industry, chutzpah, Ford Foundation, GM, NY Times, tarp, Teachers Unions

New Orleans

lindanathan wrote 1 week ago: WOW! New Orleans seems a distant memory and I was only there last week. I was fortunate to combine a … more →

Tags: Allyssa Jones, Arts in Education, Boston Arts Academy, Coalition of Essential Schools, Linda Nathan, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Ted Sizer

Book Review: Garan's "In Defense of Our Children"1 comment

Brigitte Knudson wrote 2 weeks ago: Oftentimes, I find myself in situations where, in learning something new, I begrudgingly am forced t … more →

Tags: democracy, Education, Politics, A.C.T., Bourdieu, GARAn, Giroux

New research on teacher 'pay for performance' schemes1 comment

educblog wrote 2 weeks ago: Vanderbilt University’s National Center on Performance Incentives has just announced the publi … more →

Tags: Faculty (K-12), K-12, Research, Testing

Updates on the Common Core Standards Initiative

educblog wrote 2 weeks ago: Education Week reports that the Common Core Standards Initiative, an effort spearheaded by the Counc … more →

Tags: curriculum, Faculty (K-12), K-12, Testing

Falling in Love with Bank Street...and Out of Love with “Education”

Bank Street Alumni Blog wrote 2 weeks ago: posted by Fred Baumgarten ‘84, writer/musician/naturalist/father Twenty-five years ago I earne … more →

Tags: Classrooms, Dialogue, OUR TEACHERS, Families, Standardized Testing

Imagine Schools Cash in On Education4 comments

thatsrightnate wrote 2 weeks ago: Dennis Bakke is on top of the education world.   As the CEO of Imagine Schools, he oversees the fast … more →

Tags: Charter Schools, Dennis Bakke, imagine schools

The Occasional Paper Public Forums

Bank Street Alumni Blog wrote 2 weeks ago: Participate in person or live on the web! These forums are available online, live and after the even … more →

Tags: Assessment, Collaboration, Dialogue, Equity, leadership, Policy, Professional Development, Standardized Testing, Standards

Having Great Teachers a Great Thing!

katroo wrote 3 weeks ago: Came across this video on Ted.tv today while researching how to improve student education. Bill Gate … more →

Tags: Education, Children, Bad Teachers, School, Students, Carlsbad schools, aviara oaks

Charter schools continue to grow

educblog wrote 3 weeks ago: The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has published this report on the state of public ch … more →

Tags: Alternative Education, Diversity & multicultural issues, K-12

Reasons NOT to tie teacher pay to student test scores1 comment

educblog wrote 3 weeks ago: Gordon MacInnes of The Century Foundation has published this brief on the topic of using student tes … more →

Tags: Education and Careers, Faculty (K-12), K-12, Testing

President Obama Using stimulus dollars as bait

goodtimepolitics wrote 3 weeks ago: How do you the voter feel about this? Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coax … more →

Tags: Politics, President Barack Obama, obama, Stimulus Money, coaxing states, stimulus bait money, School, Democrats, Republicans

United Teachers Los Angeles and community spearhead innovative school reform project

Adeline & Tal wrote 3 weeks ago: LAUSD is now the home to the Belmont Zone of Choice, an innovative pilot school program developed fr … more →

Tags: In The News, Real Estate News and Trends, burbank middle school, highland park schools, LAUSD, United Teachers Los Angeles, UTLA

1 comment

gfbrandenburg wrote 3 weeks ago: Let me lay out my point of view on the so-called “reformers” whom DCPS Chancellor Michel … more →

Tags: Education, DCPS, Math, Public Schools, michelle rhee


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