These are my paltry notes from David Jakes’ METC 2010 presentation, “Beyond the Web 2.0 Hype: Focusing on What Really Matters.” I arrived a few minutes after this presentation started…. and unfortunately for my learning here (but good for my daughter) I had to step out to supervise a hotel [...]
Last week the Center for American Progress (CAP) released Bitter Pill, Better Formula, its second report on the funding formulas used under Title I, Part A, the largest federal K-12 education program. Funding for Title I, Part A ($14.5 billion in 2010) is currently distributed via four separate formulas [...]
Raising Real Men has dedicated the pre-Valentine Carnival of Homeschooling to Things Homeschoolers Love.
[...]The shortage of men is changing social life on college campuses, reports the New York Times.
Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to [...]
There's an odds-on chance that Florida lawmakers might end all financial support for the one teacher performance incentive program that educators actually like.
Senate Pre-K-12 Education Committee chairwoman Nancy Detert tells the Gradebook that her panel will be looking at the possibility of redirecting the millions that have gone into bonuses [...]
Dartmouth’s campus is no stranger to controversial attempts at humor. The Dunyun attempts to bring witty commentary to The Big Green’s tiny, oh-so-important corner of New England, laced with criticisms of some of Dartmouth’s most cherished traditions, such as drinking shitty beer andinteracting with wild-life. Most of the [...]
“For me there has been no downside. “But I think if you’re not on your game, Eli will crush you.”
- Harvard professor Roland Fryer on powerful philanthropist Eli Broad in the New York Times.
[...]It's a newish education blog called The Daily Riff that's got great graphics and seems sort of fun if not entirely original or different. They say their goal is to be "provocateur, muse, catalyst and game changer." The company is based on [...]
There were two times that stick out in my college career as being epic failures on my part. The first was early on, my freshman year, and it was in electrostatics and magnetism, a calculus-based physics class [...]
I've just heard that NYC schools will be closed tomorrow!' [...] 
Green is good. Red is bad.
Here’s what they taught me in “coaching college” about how to read data.
Reading vertically indicates the teacher’s problem. Reading horizontally indicates a student’s problem.
So, Harpo needs some additional help in all language arts areas. However, in the vocabulary category, it appears that [...]
Kicking off Sex Week with a bang, the Yale Daily News just released the results of their campus-wide sex survey, and the results are titillating. Yalies have a lot of sex, in a lot of ways, with a lot of people.
According to the poll, 31.2 [...]
Last week Andy and I offered some ideas on the best way to characterize the theoretical and ideological divisions in education policy. Justin Cohen followed up:
I like Andy’s “Choice/Accountability” matrix, it’s far superior to the dichotomy that both of their posts reject. I worry, though, that it conflates [...]
Both the Chicago School Consortium’s and the recent American Institutes of Research assessments of school turnarounds in Chicago should prompt a rethinking of "reformers" assumptions regarding the best methods for helping our most disadvantaged students. Organizing Schools for Improvement, by Byrk et.al, identified five [...]
A staff editorial from Sunday's Wall Street Journal:
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget calls for a 9% increase in federal education spending, and he has famously said that the money should go to "what works" in education. So he ought to take another look at Milwaukee, where the [...]
Almost a month after refusing to sign a Race to the Top memorandum of understanding, the United School Employees of Pasco wants to know what its members think about the ideas in the Obama administration's school reform plan.
After all, the School Board and superintendent have signaled their plans [...]
Dear Deborah,
As I watch events across the nation, I have concluded that district leadership today falls into one of two varieties.
On one hand is the traditional superintendent, who believes that he is responsible for the schools and students in his care. He visits the schools often and consults frequently [...]
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Merged districts could save Kan. millions AP: Consolidating public school districts in Kansas could save millions of taxpayer dollars, although not enough to solve the state's budget crisis this year, according to a new report released Monday.
Post as a Comment Any Question You’d Like to Ask about ESL or ELL students you teach. Be as specific as you’d like and I’ll work on a meaningful answer.
Filed under: ESL [...] The election is months away, but Pinellas school board candidate Terry Krassner has already lined up 425 fans on her campaign Facebook page, including influential politicos from both sides of Tampa Bay.
Among them: State Reps. Jim Frishe, R-St. Petersburg, and Peter Nehr, R-Tarpon Springs; Pinellas county commissioners Nancy [...]
We’ve received some snow in St Louis, but the Midwest Educational Technology Conference (METC) goes on! Yesterday pre-conference workshops were held, and today and tomorrow are the “regular days” of the conference. Here are links to the resources I’ll be sharing in my sessions today.
Storychasing Literacy (a.k.a. “StoryChasing: [...]
I'm at a two-day symposium in New York City put on by the Campaign for Educational Equity that's examining whether the stimulus funds have been spent and used equitably to help improve achievement, especially among at-risk students.
Sam Dillon did a piece previewing the papers being presented,' [...]
“Early-college high schools” are helping high-risk students combine high school with community college, reports the New York Times. Students can earn a high school diploma and up to two years of college credit in five years.
“Last year, half our early-college high schools had zero dropouts, and that’s just unprecedented [...]
Here’s the latest educational technology video that’s making the rounds. I know a few professors like this!
“If you are here, why are we Skyping?”
[...]Today I attended Cybersafety Outreach – a workshop program put together by ACMA under their cyber (smart:) banner addressing the issues around cybersafety and cyberbullying. It was very comprehensive and rather than rehash the program, I thought I’d share a few takeaways and thoughts from the day.
Firstly, I’ve [...]
EAT HEALTHY: The Obama administration calls for a ban on selling junk food in schools, including vending machines. Tampa area school officials are working to meet such goals, but kids say they know the loopholes. (Times photo, Keri Wiginton)
FOCUS ON DISCIPLINE: Instead of expanding its [...]
When three girls beat up another girl in a New York City school, the victim is transferred, complains Ms. Rubin. The bullies “get to stay and continue terrorizing weaker kids.”
. . . the girl who got jumped has been in our school since kindergarten and has never been a [...]
In significant shift over time, issues related to faith get more play in top journals, more scholars make religious issues central to their work, and more are getting outside funds.
[...]By rejecting anthologies and rebuffing biographers, a great author limited his future readership, writes Leonard Cassuto.
[...]Authorities arrested 12 people Monday at the University of California at Irvine for repeatedly disrupting a lecture by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, The Orange County Register reported. Oren was interrupted 10 times by shouting from the audience, at one point taking a break and [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint with Fresno City College, charging that a health instructor is giving religious instruction with an anti-gay bias, in violation of the separation of church and state, the Associated Press reported. The instructor could not be reached for comment and the [...]
Shift, a week after similar move by Williams, suggests more institutions will restore borrowing to students' aid packages.
' [...]Many prospective students and their families lack the information they need to make informed choices about colleges, according to a report being issued today, "Planning for College: A Consumer Approach to the Higher Education Marketplace." The report examines the kinds of decisions families make and the information they need. The [...]
Federal appeals court sides sweepingly with female former athletes who sued U. of California-Davis.
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