Most new charter schools in Los Angeles are replicating successful programs. Statewide, half of new charters are opening in LA, San Diego and Oakland, where dissatisfaction with traditional schools is high.
LA school board members are huffy over evidence that charter middle and high schools outperform district-run schools.
“I think it’s basically unfair to compare an entity […]
Archive for May, 2008
New York City’s left-behind students can’t work with online tutors based in India, say the city’s education officials, because Indian tutors haven’t completed background checks. Despite improving students’ test scores, Socratic Learning lost its $2 million contract under No Child Left Behind when the city discovered 250 tutors work from India not company headquarters […]
Boys with traditionally female names are more disruptive in class starting in middle school, concludes a research study. Via NCLBlog and This Week in Education. I always associated Boy Named Sue with Johnny Cash, but Russo says the lyricist was the great Shel Silverstein. What a combination.
Grammar is back in fashion at a Washington area high school where Grammar Greiner teaches students the fundamentals of grammar, punctuation and capitalization. The Washington Post reports:
Grammar lessons vanished from public schools in the 1970s, supplanted by a more holistic view of English instruction. A generation of teachers and students learned grammar through the […]
Florida spends $400 million annually on universal pre-kindergarten programs that offer no educational benefits and are no better than child-care centers, critics say. Parents are happy, though. They don’t have to pay for care.
I sold quite a few copies of Our School at the Colorado League of Charter Schools convention today, though turnout was diminished by the blizzard. Yes, Denver is covered with picture-postcard snow.
I ran into Joe Williams, author of Cheating Our Kids and Chalkboard edublogger, and had dinner with Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist.
In a math education class taught by Mr. NCTM, future teacher “John Dewey” asked classmates to tackle a geometry problem he found on a tape of a Japanese eighth-grade math class.
After about a minute, I saw that people were perplexed, not getting anywhere, and I suddenly realized that in my excitement: I forgot to […]
Social workers must “demonstrate the ability to … understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination and apply strategies of advocacy and social change that advance social and economic justice.” Accredited programs must “integrate social and economic justice content grounded in an understanding of distributive justice, human and civil rights, and the […]
Training principals in how to recognize and hire good teachers is paying off in Baltimore with better teachers and higher retetion rates. Now Chicago is giving it a try, reports Teacher Quality Bulletin.
Principals are taught how to pick teachers that best fit their schools, how to create scenario questions that probe instruction and classroom […]
In Florida, Texas and Ohio, politicians are making high-stakes testing a campaign issue, reports the Washington Post. In Florida, the candidates for governor are arguing over the state test, which affects teacher pay, school budgets and promotion to fourth grade.
Republican Charlie Crist is offering to push forward with the testing regime, but Democrat Jim Davis […]
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