No evidence supports the idea that children learn more if teachers teach to their “learning styles,” concludes a study by a team of cognitive scientists published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Education Week summarizes:
Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best absorb information by [...]
UPDATED!In a major, long-term study of school reform models, scripted learning did best in high-poverty elementary schools, reports Education Week.
Thirteen years ago, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education’s Study of Instructional Improvement set out to study three models: Success for All requires teachers to follow a detailed, [...]
NATIONALThere are loads of smart things floating around – on all sides of the Race to the Top issue – and then there is this essay in Education Week…wow…really?
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NATIONAL:We Know How to Turn Schools Around, writes Allen Odden in Education Week. We just don’t do it very often.
The bottom line is that the country knows how to turn around low-performing education systems, dramatically boost student learning, and close achievement gaps. And in most cases, the funds to [...]
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…which is why Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top initiative matters so much. My commentary running today in Education Week (which I believe I’m allowed to reproduce below):
The Hole in ‘Race to the Top’
By Richard Whitmire
It seems almost peevish to criticize U.S. Secretary [...]
CALIFORNIA:
He only wrote once for Politics K-12 that I can dig up, but Sean Cavanagh's departure from Education Week is a big loss. He may have been the newspaper's specialist in covering math and science, and its prolific Curriculum Matters blogger, but he had a knack [...]
The best thing about Education Secretary Duncan’s interview with Education Week was his endorsement of a fundamental value of public education - "creative insubordination." When dealing with some of his best principals in Chicago, Duncan learned that the best thing he could do was to [...]
As Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) becomes more influential, critics charge it’s a way for high-tech companies to influence schools, reports Education Week.
“The closer we look, the more P21’s unproven educational program appears to be just another mechanism for selling more stuff to schools,” Lynne Munson, [...]
In this Education Week article Education Sector seems like it's trying to throw as many aspersions at "former employee" Tom Toch as possible (he's late, a bad writer, greedy). At the same time, they're trying to keep the lid on the story by refusing to send me (and perhaps' [...]
My series on Sweating v. Growing will proceed as planned for next week, but in the meanwhile.....
Debra Viadero's article in today's online edition of Education Week (Study Casts Doubt on Strength of Charter Managers) is worth reading if you are trying to determine the extent to which EdSector manipulated [...]
Dean is a hard act to follow. After reading Tom Toch's original document, as opposed to his Education Week article, I still see the same pattern. The Education Sector and the Eduwonk have long battled with themselves over facts and their meanings. Now,' [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit to Education Week today, and spent an hour fielding questions from reporters about everything from No Child Left Behind Act reauthorization to the possibility of a second economic-stimulus package.
Duncan, who was accompanied by assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and [...]
Education Week’s District Dossier blog wrote last week about a new report on the effectiveness of desegregation programs in improving student achievement, stating:
After examining the nation’s eight remaining desegregation programs that enable disadvantaged students to cross school district boundary lines to attend more-affluent, suburban public schools, the researchers [...]
I believe it was released openly, so I’ll paste below:
Published in Print: November 11, 2009, as Teaching Girls to Tinker
Commentary
Teaching Girls to Tinker
By Lisa Damour
Girls now surpass boys in nearly every measure of academic success. A 2004 report from the National Center for Education [...]
For $20, students at a North Carolina middle school can buy 20 test points — 10 extra points on two tests of the student’s choosing, reports Education Week.
Susie Shepherd, Rosewood Middle School principal, said a parent advisory council came up with the idea after last year’s chocolate sale flopped.
Shepherd [...]
