In Education Week, James Guthrie, a Vanderbilt education and public policy professor, responds to Nel Noddings, a Stanford education professor, who wrote earlier that No Child Left Behind is “bad law.” Noddings offers no evidence to back her assertions, writes Guthrie, and no ideas to do more than spend more money doing what’s already failed.
What […]
Archive for May, 2008
Charter school students do no better than students in traditional schools, and sometimes worse, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. A book will be out soon.
The American Federation of Teachers, which previously trashed charter schools, has a seat on the EPI board, points out the Charter Schools Leadership Council, which disputes […]
Funding pre-school for all students would save money, a RAND study concludes.
For every dollar California would spend on creating a public preschool program for all 4-year-olds, the state would yield more than $2 in economic benefits by reducing the number of students held back in school, increasing the number of high school graduates and slashing […]
Zero tolerance stupidities are creating pressure to modify rigid school rules, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
HOUSTON — Unaware it had turned cool overnight, Eddie Evans’s 12-year-old son bolted out of the house in shirt sleeves. He was on his way to the bus stop when his mother called him back for a jacket. […]
Eastern High School is a low-performing D.C. high school that had an award-winning choir in the ’80s and ’90s. But the choir program has fallen victim to the “grating failure and corruption in the D.C. schools,” writes Marc Fisher in the Washington Post.
Broke, desperate for new voices, buffeted by the chaos of a school that […]
In La Vida Robot, Wired tells the story of a team of undocumented Mexican immigrants at a West Phoenix high school who competed in a contest to build an underwater robot that could survey a model of a sunken submarine.
. . . in a second-floor windowless room, four students huddle around an odd, 3-foot-tall frame […]
Teachers expect less from students with unusual or oddly punctuated names such as Da’Quan and LaQuisha, concludes economist David Figlio, a University of Florida professor. From the Washington Post:
Figlio said these kids also pay a price for their names when teachers and administrators make decisions about who gets promoted to the next grade […]
Clayton Wilcox, superintendent of schools in Pinellas County, Florida, has started a blog dialogue at a St. Petersburg Times site called The Classroom. In the last two weeks, he’s received hundreds of comments, mostly on improving the high schools. It looks like a great way for the superintendent to interact with parents and students. I […]
Twenty-six percent of public school students in Dayton, Ohio attend charter schools, reports the New York Times. That’s the highest percentage in the nation.
The flight of students from the public system has prompted the election of reform school board candidates. But Dayton’s school district remains in “academic emergency” status; some of the new charters […]
Black parents are being urged to get to know their children’s teachers, go to PTA meetings, sign their kids up for enrichment and tutoring classes and take their children to libraries and museums. The goal is to improve academic performance.
In Silver Spring, Md., outside Washington, black parents have organized networks to exchange information about […]
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