Education
Monday, May 27, 2013
Top Story
5/24/2013
San Diego Union-Tribune
Right now, some California students are sitting for hours pouring over testing booklets and filling in scantron bubbles. The results of that will shape the fate of their teachers, principals, district officials and become the conversation fodder for the education politics of the year to come.
Yet those students’ parents, the real education deciders, and the students themselves receive almost no feedback from their hard work. Why?
Because the California Department of Education delivers the results of the March, April and May test to principals and local school officials in mid-August and last year (after a security breach) officials didn’t get results until mid-September. Parents did not see the schoolwide results until mid-October, well after school started and 6 months after most enrollment
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Features
5/20/2013
National Review Online
School Dollars Should Follow Success, Not Just Enrollment
The decision of the Louisiana supreme court to strike down as unconstitutional the funding mechanism of the state’s school-voucher program is a major blow to school-choice supporters, but the biggest
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5/9/2013
Over the past decade, the United States has spent upwards of $100 billion on K-12 classroom technology to no discernible effect. The reason is clear: most education technology in use in K-12 classrooms
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5/7/2013
Real Clear Policy
Time may be running out for supporters of education vouchers. The very survival of the schools that would benefit most from vouchers is in doubt. Faith-based schools, especially Catholic and Jewish day
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Education Articles
| 5/24/2013 |
San Diego Union-Tribune
Right now, some California students are sitting for hours pouring over testing booklets and filling in scantron bubbles. The results of that will shape the fate of their teachers, principals, district
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| 5/20/2013 |
National Review Online School Dollars Should Follow Success, Not Just Enrollment
The decision of the Louisiana supreme court to strike down as unconstitutional the funding mechanism of the state’s school-voucher program is a major blow to school-choice supporters, but the biggest
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| 5/9/2013 |
Over the past decade, the United States has spent upwards of $100 billion on K-12 classroom technology to no discernible effect. The reason is clear: most education technology in use in K-12 classrooms
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| 5/7/2013 |
Real Clear Policy
Time may be running out for supporters of education vouchers. The very survival of the schools that would benefit most from vouchers is in doubt. Faith-based schools, especially Catholic and Jewish day
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| 4/23/2013 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
One reason for Americans’ alarmingly shallow knowledge of their own nation’s history may be the low priority that state-teacher certifiers assign to the preparation of high school history teachers.
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| 4/22/2013 |
An Analysis of State Requirements Executive Summary
American students continue to demonstrate a pattern of alarmingly poor knowledge of their nation’s history. Whether measured by the U.S. Department of Education or by private organizations, the results
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| 4/5/2013 |
A Commitment to Constant Innovation Is Needed to Realize the Potential of Individualized Learning Executive Summary
Education technology or “EdTech” is a rapidly growing industry in the United States as schools seek to integrate modern technology into the classroom. As technology companies pursue the opportunities
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| 4/3/2013 |
Presentation to the National Catholic Education Association 2013 Annual Convention
Presentation focuses on 21st century models for blended learning, transparency and governance as solutions for greater sustainability amid current trends and challenges facing K-12 Catholic education.
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| 4/3/2013 |
Richmond Times-Dispatch
It has been a long time since Virginia could reasonably be considered a hotbed of educational innovation.
This is the unavoidable backdrop against which Governor McDonnell seeks support for a new round
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| 3/20/2013 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Some 2 million American children, including 85,000 in the Chicago area, need leaders to act fast to save dying Catholic schools.
Since 2000, Catholic leaders have shuttered 2,000 schools across
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| 3/9/2013 |
Originally Appeared in NewGeography.com
In a heart-breaking scene in the 2010 documentary Waiting for Superman, a young mother is crying in her Harlem apartment, which overlooks her daughter’s school. Bianca, her daughter, has been barred from
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| 2/13/2013 |
New York Post
The New Jersey Education Association has declared war on two Newark charter schools, Merit Prep and Newark Prep. It sued to shut them down, but lost in court — so now the union’s asked the state Legislature
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| 1/30/2013 |
Roanoke (VA) Times
Virginia’s public officials are fond of describing the Commonwealth’s schools as among the finest in the nation. But while students here perform very well on national indicators, typically in the highest
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| 1/8/2013 |
Research Study
Executive Summary
For the growing number of schools across the United States struggling to meet the educational needs of English language learner student populations, the challenges frequently
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| 12/7/2012 |
Executive Summary
What is the cost to the United States economy attributable to lack of basic English skills? The nation’s English learner population continues to grow dramatically. According to the 2010 Census, there
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| 11/21/2012 |
As high-quality blended learning models proliferate around the country in traditional public, public charter and private schools, keeping current can be a challenge. These videos may prove helpful.
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| 11/10/2012 |
The Washington Post
“Is my child’s school safe? Is it a good school?” These are the first questions most parents, and especially most urban parents, want to know at the start of a school year.
In the District of Columbia,
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| 10/23/2012 |
Presentation to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers
Blended learning seems to be gaining strong momentum across American public education, but it poses some distinct challenges for charter school authorizers if they remain locked into their old ways of
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| 10/16/2012 |
Some Schools are Creating a New Model for Religious Instruction. City Journal
Though they enrolled 5.2 million students at the height of the baby boom, Catholic schools in the United States have struggled with declining matriculation in the decades since and today have just under
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| 9/21/2012 |
Introduction
These nine essays chronicle prominent examples where the advancement of radical agendas has displaced the development of subject-content mastery in America’s schools of education.
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| 8/31/2012 |
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is considered a man of iron will who has a deep commitment to reform. He should show it. Push ahead with Chicago Public School reforms and decertify the Chicago Teachers Union if necessary.
The
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| 8/22/2012 |
Event Date: October 16, 9 AM – 12:30 PM Catholic University of America, Pryzbyla Conference Center
We hope that you are able to join us for an upcoming education policy event Tuesday, October 16 in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Lexington Institute and the Catholic University of America’s Department
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| 8/21/2012 |
The Seattle Times
Charter-school growth has hit Catholic schools hard. This coming school year, for the first time more American elementary and high-school students will enroll in charter schools than in Catholic schools.
Instead
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| 8/10/2012 |
Roanoke (VA) Times
Now that Virginia has become the 18th state to give private school choice a public boost (via a limited tax credit), the time may be right to move forward with more robust measures that could extend the
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| 8/4/2012 |
The Oklahoman
With its recent adoption of opportunity scholarships, Oklahoma has become a leader in tapping the power of school choice to help families and society as a whole. The potential exists to draw on this power
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| 7/29/2012 |
Charter schools, only 20 years old, are on the rise across America as parents and students try to escape failing public schools. The growth in charter schools has hit Catholic schools especially hard,
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| 7/20/2012 |
Enhancing the Catholic Mission with Data, Blended Learning, and Other Best Practices From Top Charter Schools
Executive Summary
Catholic K-12 education in the United States is in crisis – with rapidly declining enrollment, untenable financial models, and new competition from public charter schools.
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| 6/20/2012 |
Presentation, National Charter School Conference
Lexington's Don Soifer gave the following presentation at the National Charter Schools Conference in Minneapolis. He discusses the benefits of innovative charter school solutions for children of active
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| 6/3/2012 |
East Valley Tribune (Arizona)
Arizona’s system for educating English Learners has undergone substantial restructuring in the past 12 years, including new funding levels and formulas. While this has resulted in changes to some long-languishing
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| 6/1/2012 |
With online classes becoming more widely available for elementary and secondary students in Virginia, participation and enrollment are starting to grow. Last year, 119 school divisions provided online
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