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
. . . Read more |
| 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
. . . Read more |
| 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
. . . Read more |
| 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
. . . Read more |
| 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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