Education Department listens to (some) reason
Education Secretary Arne Duncan bowed to (some) reason Tuesday and announced that he was giving states some flexibility in regard to when they had to ...
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Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
WASHINGTON — States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education ...
Duncan to Allow Waiver States Flexibility in Teacher Evaluation
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will call today for a new process allowing states that have gotten waivers from parts of the Elementary and ...
Duncan To Allow States Flexibility on Test Scores and Teacher Evaluations
Connecticut To Seek Permission Not To Use Standardized Test Scores In Teacher Evaluations Next Year; To Take Steps To Avoid Double-Testing ...
The Common Core's fundamental trouble
There's a lot being said and written about the Common Core State Standards these days, not all of it accurate. Here's a smart piece about the ...
Is competition in education killing our sense of community?
I recently published a post that slammed modern school reform as essentially an urban land reform project, written by Leslie Fenwick, dean of the ...
America's Teacher Training Programs Aren't Good Enough
A report out today from the National Council on Teacher Quality rates more than 1,100 elementary and secondary programs at just over 600 institutions ...
The problem(s) with D.C. school reform bills
David Catania, the chairman of the D.C. Council's Education Committee, has introduced seven school reform bills that, according to this Post story, ...
University programs that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in first-ever ratings
The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever ranking that ...