Education

Charter Schools Ahead of Curve on School Size U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley plugged for small schools in his recent back-to-school message. "We need to find ways to create small, supportive learning environments that give students a sense of connection to each other," Riley said. "That's hard to do when we're building high schools the size of shopping malls. Size matters."
How to House and Pay for the Local Charter School Charter schools are one of the hottest innovations in American education. Led by independent operators who promise to deliver results in return for exemption from bureaucratic rules, they are injecting needed choice and competition into public education.
Cleveland Vouchers Begin to Pay Dividends News about Cleveland's voucher program came in rapid-fire succession around the opening of the 1999-2000 school year. But perhaps the most significant development came last . . . and received the least coverage from the mainstream media.
Capitol Hill Teacher Union Conference The purpose of this conference is to educate legislators, staffers and opinion leaders on what education reform leaders have encountered and accomplished around the country.
A Goals 2000 in 2001 – or Is It Time to Turn the Page? National education goals debuted as a movement in 1989 when President Bush and the nation's Governors met to agree on a bipartisan, nationally coordinated effort to improve public education.
Title VII Grants: Bilingual Education Programs That Hurt Kids Federal bilingual education programs are funded through discretionary grants from the Department of Education’s Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs directly to local education providers. “Federal bilingual education projects have demonstrated effectiveness in teaching English,” asserts the Clinton Administration’s official DoEd budget request for FY 2000.
The Weighting Game for ‘Strivers’ "New Weights Can Alter SAT Scores" reported The Wall Street Journal in its August 31 Marketplace section. And among the weights the Educational Testing Service is adding so colleges can discern the "Strivers" among their applicants are quality-of-life factors like "kinds of electrical appliances" in their homes.
No Way to Learn Your September 6 editorial is right on target with its assertion that "it is imperative that the Board of Ed make an honest assessment of its English language programs."
Neutering Charter Schools We agree with "Charter Schools in Choke Hold," Anna Bray Duff, IBD, August 13, because the education establishment cannot abide fresh ideas or competition. The way to eliminate charter schools is to put them back in the box of sameness -- same curriculum, same bureaucratic and union strictures. Thereby they lose their reason for being.
Raising Teacher Salaries Would elevating teachers' salaries to the level of engineers' mean that the quality of teaching would match that of engineering (Week in Review, August 8)? Not if teacher education remains unchanged.
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