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Personality Test: The dispositional dispute in teacher preparation today, and what to do about it
William Damon / September 8, 2005
The standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Excellence (NCATE) are of critical import for America's future teaching corps and will wield disproportionate influence for decades to come. Over the past fifteen years, 25 states have outsourced the approval of teacher preparation programs to NCATE by adopting or ...
Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier
Sheree Speakman , Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Bryan C. Hassel / August 24, 2005
Of all the controversies swirling around the nation's charter schools, none is more hotly contested than the debate over funding. Into the fray leaps Charter School Funding: Inequitys Next Frontier, the most comprehensive and rigorous study ever undertaken of how public charter schools are funded, state by state, and how ...
Fwd: It's All About the Kids
Martin A. Davis, Jr. / July 21, 2005
In just more than five years, Mary Anne Stanton has led 13 Catholic schools from high-poverty Washington, D.C. neighborhoods into a consortium that has not only strengthened each school's financial health, but has also greatly improved the academic performance of the children the schools are charged with educating. To get ...
Fwd: Half Empty or Half Full?: Florida's voluntary pre-Kindergarten standards
Amy Wilkins / May 5, 2005
In 2002, when its voters approved a ballot measure calling for universal pre-Kindergarten by 2005-06, Florida joined a handful of states in which all children are eligible for free, publicly funded education in the year prior to Kindergarten. The passage of the referendum was cause for great optimism among those ...
Testimony Prepared for the Alternative Education Subcommittee
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Terry Ryan / April 21, 2005
On April 21, 2005, Fordham President Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Program Director Terry Ryan testified before the Alternative Education Subcommittee of the Ohio House of Representatives. They discussed Ohio's community schools (a.k.a. charter schools), which face a developing paradox: the more they expand and the more students they ...
The State of State Math Standards 2005
W. Stephen Wilson , Bastiaan J. Braams , Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Wilfried Schmid , Ralph A. Raimi , William Quirk , Thomas Parker , Lawrence Braden , David Klein / January 5, 2005
States still have far to go in setting rigorous, high quality expectations for K-12 math instruction. Although a majority have replaced or revised their math standards since 2000, many have failed to make substantial improvements. The review was led by David Klein, Professor of Mathematics at California State University-Northridge, and ...
