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First Bell 4-3-13

yes Pamela Tatz / April 3, 2013

A first look at today's most important education news:

Fordham's latest

"The Good News from Pakistan," by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Flypaper

"What can education reformers learn from the gay rights movement?," by Michael J. Petrilli, Flypaper

Test-prep-focused “cram schools,” once the turf of Asian- and Russian-American students, are gaining popularity with other cultural groups. (New York Times)

Some Texas lawmakers are aiming to scale back the state’s high school graduation requirements. (Education Week)

AFT president Randi Weingarten attributed the standardized-test cheating scandal in Atlanta to “test-crazed” education policies. The drama continues. (Huffington Post and New York Times)

Studies find that students who have the most trouble in mathematics have the worst odds of obtaining a qualified math teacher. (Education Week)

According to Thomas Friedman, the most recent PISA report comparing U.S. middle-class students to global peers shows that the best schools have “cultures that believe anything is possible with any student” (New York Times)

U.S. Representative Eric Cantor argues that federal education aid should follow children, especially those of “vulnerable populations” and kids with special needs. (Politics K–12)

Malala Yousafzai, the fifteen-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban earlier this

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First Bell 4-2-13

yes Pamela Tatz / April 2, 2013

A first look at today's most important education news:

Fordham's latest

"Quixote, jobs, innovation, and Catholic schools," by Andy Smarick, Flypaper

The former schools chief in Atlanta and three-dozen others have been indicted for test fraud. (New York Times and Huffington Post)

The common-assessment consortia will undergo a federal technical-review process. (Curriculum Matters)

A new study finds that teachers who gesticulate as they explain equations can make mathematic concepts more concrete for students. (Inside School Research)

In states that have recently revamped teacher-evaluation policies, change still hasn’t come. (New York Times)

The Stuyvesant teacher whose computer-science program inspired New York City’s new Academy for Software Engineering claims he has been effectively “cut out of the school’s planning process.” (New York Times)

Hamas has issued a new education law requiring a more rigid separation of genders in Palestinian schools and barring relations with Israelis. (New York Times)

According to an analysis of the cost of teacher-evaluation policies, SLOs are the most expensive option for districts. (Teacher Beat)

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First Bell 3-29-13

yes Pamela Tatz / March 29, 2013

A first look at today's most important education news:

Fordham's latest

"A piece of the puzzle: Teach For America, Dayton and Its Schools," by Aaron Churchill and Terry Ryan, Ohio Gadfly Daily

Connecticut schools have begun to tighten graduation requirements in an effort to better prepare students for college. (New Haven Independent)

The Hechinger Report worries that a “Bring-Your-Own-Device” approach to educational technology, while cheaper for school districts, will lead to a “digital divide.”

Over fifty years since a federal judge ordered schools in Cleveland, Mississippi, to desegregate, the issue has returned to court. (Wall Street Journal)

After New York City relaxed its disciplinary policies, the number of public school students suspended fell by more than a third. Overall crime in the city’s schools dropped nearly 25 percent in the second half of 2012, as well. (Wall Street Journal)

A new report suggests that states could afford better-quality tests simply by reallocating the money they already spend on tests. (Curriculum Matters)

A federal appeals court has decided that a Kentucky school administrator’s search of a student’s text messages violated the student’s rights under the Fourth Amendment. (School Law)

According to a new longitudinal study, teenagers who are socially awkward at age thirteen continue

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First Bell 3-28-13

yes Pamela Tatz / March 28, 2013

A first look at today's most important education news:

Fordham's latest

"Governance in the charter school sector: Time for a reboot," by Michelle Gininger, Choice Words

A report finds that New Jersey’s preschool program, in place since 1998, has lasting benefits. (Inside School Research)

Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa, one of the GOP governors elected in 2010, has proposed raising salaries and offering incentive pay to teachers. (Huffington Post)

New polling data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index show that teachers ranked second only to physicians in “well-being.” (New York Times)

Schools in Southwest Detroit are infusing the arts into their curricula with help from Living Arts, an arts and cultural organization. (Model D)

The Independent Budget Office finds that the Education Department’s annual progress reports don’t sufficiently control for external factors that could affect student performance, such as the number of impoverished or special-needs kids at a school. (Wall Street Journal)

An Arkansas Senate panel has backed a plan to re-write the state’s 1989 school-choice law, which was struck down last year as unconstitutional. (Associated Press)

The Department of Education is accepting “pre-applications” for its fourth round of Investing in Innovation grants. (Politics K–12)

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