From Education Week:

A new generation of education advocacy groups has emerged to play a formidable political role in states and communities across the country. Those groups are shaping policy through aggressive lobbying and campaign activity—an evolution in advocacy that is primed to continue in the 2012 elections and beyond.

Bearing names meant to signal [...]

From Sarah Sparks of Education Week::

Fewer than one-third of American 8th graders are proficient in science, but most students are improving, and achievement gaps are closing between students who are black or Hispanic and their white peers, a special administration of the test known as “the nation’s report card” shows.

The National Assessment Governing [...]

From Educational Leadership (must be member to see entire article)

by Jennifer Locraft Cuddapah and Anika Spratley Burtin

Alternatively certified teachers told us that to feel successful, they needed the very things that come with traditional preparation programs.

The one thing I wish I had more time to do is observe teachers.[I learn more] when [...]

Citybizlist Baltimore

Posted May 8, 2012 Couresty of Baltimore Fishbowl By Michael Yockel

At the outset of the past decade, Baltimore City changed its public schools superintendent with alarming frequency – a dizzying parade of six different bosses in six years. Given the dispiriting prevailing academic circumstances, few relished the job: a less than 50 [...]

From the New York Times:

The idea that a handful of college instructors and student teachers in the school of education at the University of Massachusetts could slow the corporatization of public education in America is both quaint and ridiculous.

Sixty-seven of the 68 students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school [...]