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This year, in our overly-large school district, test scores of students who are learning English rose, a big turn around from last year.
What changed?
This year, federal officials allowed the state to assess thousands of English-learning students through portfolios of their work over the school year instead of through the [...]
Yeah Ryan! The Wordpress Akismet problem I blogged about on August 25th has been resolved.
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Perhaps his running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, will encourage him to (increase federal support for pre-k) do so. Federal pre-k incentives could help [...]
In his acceptance speech, Sen. Barack Obama called for giving a world-class education to every student. How?
I’ll invest in early childhood education. I’ll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries, and give them more support. And in exchange, I’ll ask for higher standards and [...]
The use of interdistrict-choice programs is unlikely to increase most students’ educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low-performing public schools a chance to find a [...]
Check out the new HackCollege Love page where you’ll find people wearing their HackCollege T-shirts all over the world.
It’s wimpy right now, but we hope it blossoms into a beautiful flower… or something. If you’ve got a T-shirt, send us a picture! love [at] hackcollege [...]
Two years ago she was mayor of Wasilla Alaska, a city of 8,500. She was then elected Governor of Alaska.The Bloomberg administration, which has made accountability the watchword of its overhaul of public education, is asking elementary school principals across the city to give standardized tests in English and math to children as young as kindergartners.
In an e-mail message [...]
ATLANTA — A county school system in metropolitan Atlanta on Thursday became the nation’s first in nearly 40 years to lose its accreditation, and the governor removed four of its school board members for ethics violations.
A school board member-elect, Jessie [...]
When Robert Felner arrived at the University of Louisville in 2003, he brought with him a reputation as a “rainmaker.” University administrators praised the former dean as a change agent, citing him as the driving force behind a spike in grant money at the school.
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The California state legislature has just passed one of the first laws in the country to deal directly with cyberbullying. It gives school administrators the authority to discipline studies for bullying others offline or online. But will legislation translate into enforcement?
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