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From Education Commission of the States: Teacher Training, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement While research points to the critical role of teacher quality in improving student achievement, little consensus exists on which factors best enhance educator effectiveness. This research study found that the impact of professional development, advanced degrees, and in-service experience varied dramatically based [...] From Education Week: Schools are flooded with data these days, but students, parents, teachers, and administrators often lack the ability to make use of it because the systems for collecting, storing, and analyzing that information don’t mesh with each other, many officials who work with, or in, K-12 education say. That lack of “interoperability” between [...] From the Washington Post: How’s this for a trick: Jeb Bush’s “Chiefs for Change,” a group of former and current state education superintendents, have attacked American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for something she didn’t say — without even mentioning her name! She slapped them back. Here’s what happened: A few weeks ago, [...] From the Washington Post:
May 21, 2013 07:45 PM EDT The head of a major teachers union fired back Tuesday at state education officials who had dismissed her call for a moratorium on stakes associated with new standardized state tests in public schools. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said Chiefs [...] From Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun: More people live in poverty in Baltimore’s suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades. Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and 2011, compared with 4 percent [...] From Education Week: Casey Wardynski knew his district had to make a change when he glanced at its crop of history textbooks and spotted one glaring omission. “They didn’t even have 9/11 in them,” said Mr. Wardynski, the superintendent of the Huntsville city schools, an Alabama district of about 24,000 students. Last summer, the district [...] From Des Moines Register: BALTIMORE — It’s 8:45 a.m. — just after the morning bell — and the youngsters in Noelle Hickok’s Liberty Elementary School class are hard at work. The 4- and 5-year-olds take turns reciting alphabet letters and their phonetic pronunciations as Hickok nods approvingly. “Perfect. My friends are ready to read,” she [...] From Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post: Is is time to kiss America’s most famous school reformer goodbye? Larry Cuban thinks so — and below he explains why. Cuban was high school social studies teacher for 14 years, a district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA), and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where [...] From Des Moines Register: Literacy-rich preschool instruction puts youngsters on track for success Written by Mary Stegmeir May 18, 2013 10:55 PM BALTIMORE — Malik King and Kamryn Banks waste no time getting down to business. As their preschool classmates settle in for story time, the two students are already discussing the day’s reading [...] From Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post: Much of the national discussion about school reform revolves around recruiting and keeping top talent in the teaching field. Here’s a post with a surprisingly different point of view. This was written by Esther Quintero, a research associate at the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute. It first appeared [...] |
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