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A first look at today's most important education news:
Fordham's latest
"Opening up the black box: Common Core as a classroom-level reform," by Kathleen Porter-Magee, Common Core Watch "What people are saying about Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century," by Michelle Gininger, Flypaper "No choice for Alabama students," by Adam Emerson, Choice Words |
The Hechinger Report provides a quick snapshot of reactions to the LA school board elections.
NBC Nightly News will take on the issue of race-based goals in states’ NCLB waiver plans. (Politics K–12)
On behalf of Amplify, News Corporation’s new education division, former chancellor of New York City schools Joel Klein has announced a new 10-inch Android tablet for K–12 students. (New York Times and Digital Education)
The Wall Street Journal profiles Oklahoma’s preschool program, which President Obama touted as a model.
A new project uses the profiles of famously gifted and creative folks, like Mark Twain and Woody Allen, to identify and support creative kids—in ways other than grade point average. (Inside School Research)
A report highlights the best practices of the YES Prep Charter School network. (Charters & Choice)
NPR looks at the slew of school closings in
First Bell 3-7-13
First Bell 3-6-13
A first look at today's most important education news:
Fordham's latest
"The arduous journey of data in the compliance universe," by Miles Caunin, Ohio Gadfly Daily |
The struggle over whether or not to close Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion High, like in many school districts across the land, pits sentiments against data. (WHYY/NewsWorks)
Today, a judge plans to rule on whether Alabama governor Robert Bentley can sign into law a tax-credit-scholarship bill. (Associated Press)
In 2012, public financing for higher education declined 7 percent to its lowest level in twenty-five years, according to a new report. (New York Times and Hechinger Report)
Carmel Martin will leave the U.S. Department of Education in April for the Center for American Progress. (Politics K–12)
Researchers aim to build a principal-evaluation system that both includes test scores and accounts for how long a principal has been in her position. (Education Week)
PARCC, one of the two main groups building tests for the Common Core, says its assessments will take eight to ten hours over up to twenty days. (Curriculum Matters)
A nationwide course for Latino parents called “Abriendo Puertas” (Opening Doors) seeks to reverse the grim achievement statistics facing their children.
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First Bell 3-5-13
A first look at today's most important education news:
Fordham's latest
"The high-performing KIPP network of charters primed to expand in Columbus," by Kathryn Mullen Upton, Ohio Gadfly Daily |
Secretary Duncan stepped back from the assertion he made last week that teachers were already receiving “pink slips,” claiming he misspoke and clarifying how he believes sequestration will impact education. (Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Politics K–12)
A judge in Baton Rouge threw out Governor Bobby Jindal’s education-reform package, which had—among other things—ended “first in, last out.”(Huffington Post and Associated Press)
The Hechinger Report profiles the changing landscape facing the UFT.
A federal judge upholds Georgia governor Nathan Deal’s removal of two-thirds of DeKalb County’s school board. (New York Times)
California state education officials claim that the worst of the school-funding crisis is over, with the number of districts in danger of running out of money dropping by a third in the last year. (Los Angeles Times)
Following sequestration, the Pentagon will furlough around 15,000 military-school teachers and staff. (Wall Street Journal)
The data show that NAEP scores were weighed down by student absenteeism. (Inside School Research)
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First Bell: 3-4-13
A first look at today's most important education news:
Fordham's latest
"Kasich plan good, but needs more accountability, flexibility," by Emmy Partin, Ohio Gadfly Daily |
The Los Angeles school-board election, which will impact the nation’s second-largest school district, has drawn attention—and dollars. The LA Times profiles the candidates here. (New York Times and Los Angeles Times)
Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming, after much hemming and hawing, become the latest (and possibly last) states to apply for NCLB waivers. (Politics K–12)
Many of the thirty-four states (plus the District of Columbia) that do have NCLB waivers are still negotiating with the Education Department over teacher-evaluation systems. (Education Week)
Whites and Asians make up only a third of NYC’s elementary school population but more than 70 percent of the gifted-and-talented-program enrollment. (Wall Street Journal)
Fixing Native American schools remains an intractable problem; teachers struggle to make curricula meaningful to Native students’ lives. (Hechinger Report)
How to handle the issue of cheating when the test is administered online? MOOC providers consider their options. (New York Times)
Catholic schools, which have seen a steep drop in enrollment within the last decade, tout Latino outreach as a
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Michael J. Petrilli
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Mike Petrilli is one of the nation's foremost education analysts. As executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, he oversees the organization's research projects and publications and contributes to the Flypaper blog and weekly Education Gadfly newsletter.
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