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Whose Fault???
3 hours ago ago from Take CARE! Productions blog
Having been a teacher, blame placed on teacher's unions that view reforms more for how they affect pay and job security than whether they improve student learning is unfair and inflammatory. The accusation by David Davenport in the article Value-added education in the race to the top San Francisco Chronicle , November 29, 2009, is based on the country-wide dispute about using data to help students learn, rather than to evaluate teachers. ...
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53 minutes ago ago from Video Games
Today’s educational field is crowded with exceptional talent. The recent influx of highly qualified teachers into both the public and private school systems has only served to better the education that our nation’s children receive. This is indirect contrast to years past where subpar teachers and their inadequate teaching methods directly contributed to the delinquency of the education system in the United States. So what caused this turn ...
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17 hours ago ago from NYC Educator
by special guest blogger La Quijota When I think of the small schools movement in New York, I'm reminded of the story The Emperor's New Clothes . There are many sacrifices being made in order to have a small school. Unfortunately it seems as if teachers and students are the ones that are suffering. The union is handling the issues of ageism and retaliation that have become more rampant in smaller schools, so I will focus on what ...
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9 hours ago ago from EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL
Black Education by Walter E. Williams Detroit's (predominantly black) public schools are the worst in the nation and it takes some doing to be worse than Washington, D.C. Only 3 percent of Detroit's fourth-graders scored proficient on the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, sometimes called "The Nation's Report Card." Twenty-eight percent scored basic and 69 percent below basic. "Below basic" is the NAEP ...
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9 hours ago ago from The Frustrated Teacher
Over the Top Six Tips for Winning 'Race to the Top' Money By Yong Zhao I have been reading through the voluminous document published in the Nov. 18, 2009, Federal RegisterRequires Adobe Acrobat Reader, giving the final versions of application guidelines, selection criteria, and priorities for $4 billion in competitive grants under the Race to the Top Fund, the largest education grant program in U.S. history. From news reports, op-ed ...
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Half Tuition or Less for a Law School’s Second Class
21 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Costs are rising rapidly throughout the University of California system, but its newest law school , at Irvine, announced this week that the 80 students chosen for the second entering class will get privately financed scholarships covering at least half their tuition for all three years. Irvine's inaugural class of 60 students, who arrived in August, received full scholarships for all three years a deal that helped Irvine attract so much ...
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18 hours ago ago from Washington Post - U.S.
A four-year-old D.C. charter school plans to close at the end of June because of falling enrollment and financial concerns. Officials with City Collegiate Public Charter School, a middle school in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, told the D.C. Public Charter School Board of the plans Monday evening. There's no right time to close a school, but we've looked at next year, and we believe we would not have the enrollment, the per-pupil funding ...
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