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An Education Bureaucracy that Works
Most ministries of education are situated in old buildings and work with outdated equipment and with outdated people. The Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) in London is different.
An Update on Wisconsin’s RTTT
There are new developments in Wisconsin’s quest for Race To The Top money, an effort highlighted by President Obama’s decision to deliver a speech on education in Madison earlier in November. The most reasonable conclusion: if the state actually gets some or all of the $250 million for which it is eligible, then RTTT is meaningless.
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Gateses Give $290 Million for Education
11/20/09 | The New York Times
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The Gates Foundation announced yesterday that it would be spending over $300 million to support efforts to study what makes teachers effective and to transform how teachers are evaluated. In 2005, Ed Next published an article by Tom Dee and Benjamin Keys that described Tennessee's Career Ladder, an early effort to overhaul teacher evaluations and to link the results to promotions and pay.
Second lawsuit attacks Florida school funding
11/19/09 | boston.com
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Education Next
Florida is facing a new lawsuit over whether the state is spending enough money on its public schools. The Fall 2009 issue of Ed Next included a debate over whether lawsuits are a good strategy for addressing questions of educational adequacy and school spending.
- Fraud in the Lunchroom?
Federal school-lunch program may not be a reliable measure of poverty
By David N. Bass
- The Turnaround Fallacy
Stop trying to fix failing schools. Close them and start fresh.
By Andy Smarick
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Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next.
- Time for School?
When the snow falls, test scores also drop
By Dave E. Marcotte and Benjamin Hansen
- Golden Handcuffs
Teachers who change jobs or move pay a high price
By Robert M. Costrell and Michael Podgursky
- The Phony Funding Crisis
Even in the worst of times, schools have money to spend
By Arthur Peng and James Guthrie
- D.C.’s Braveheart
Can Michelle Rhee wrest control of the D.C. school system from decades of failure?
By June Kronholz
The Turnaround Fallacy
Stop trying to fix failing schools. Close them and start fresh.
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Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next.
D.C.’s Braveheart
Can Michelle Rhee wrest control of the D.C. school system from decades of failure?
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Fall 2009 Book Alert
Alternative Routes to Teaching; When Mayors Take Charge; From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind; Inside Urban Charter Schools; The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education; The Latino Education Crisis
Fall 2009 Correspondence
Readers Respond
Credits Crunched
Arizona rulings hit scholarships and special education vouchers
Reward Less, Get Less
Student performance gaps are easily explained
Educating African American Boys
Our schools deserve an “F”
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Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation’s persistently failing schools.
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Podcast: Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week (Nov. 19) about what the results of the 2009 off-year elections mean for education.
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In a time of penny pinching inspired by tight state and local education budgets, investigative reporter David Bass warns that taxpayers are picking up the tab for a large number of ineligible students who participate in the federal school-lunch program. Even more problematic may be the effect on school funding formulas, on research, and on accountability measures.
In examining pension plans in six states, Costrell and Podgursky find that compared to a neutral cash balance system, the type of defined benefit pension system which covers almost all public school teachers redistributes about half the pension wealth of an entering cohort of teachers to those who subsequently retire in their mid-50s from those who leave the system earlier.
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Don't save bad schools--terminate them
November 17, 2009 | Class Struggle @ The Washington Post
Letters: Public sees few pluses to more school spending
November 12, 2009 | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Ending Social Promotion Leads to Gains in NYC
November 10, 2009 | The Foundry
Blowing up bad Chicago schools did not work for Arne the Duncan
November 6, 2009 | examiner.com
Report: School closings had little effect on student performance
November 5, 2009 | Medill Reports: Chicago
Are Turnarounds A Losing Strategy?
November 2, 2009 | National Journal
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When I taught preschool and kindergarten with female co-teachers, I always found that a lot of the boys behavior that they considered problematic seemed fine/normal to me. I expected more physical activity from kids, and less sitting around quietly, and saw no problem with kids a little less able to sit still.
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