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• 21st Century Teachers are Those that Pass Tests?

  
  The Edjurist — Authority: 423
  According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ... yes.  In their latest education report card , what they deem a report card on educational effectiveness, they have 9 different subjects on which they are reporting. One of those subjects that the states are graded on is "21st Century Teaching Force." I figured that ...
  9 hours ago

• A Lesson from Oklahoma

  
  The Changing Face of Education in Iowa — Authority: 113
  Earlier this fall, the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs released the results from the survey it had commissioned about the civics knowledge of high school students, which were very alarming. Only 23% identified George Washington as the first president, 29% identified the president as being in charge of the ...
  20 hours ago

• Two Roadblocks to Transformation We Have Yet to Address

  
  Ed Tech Journeys — Authority: 103
  Hundreds of educational technology bloggers and conference speakers hold forth on the need for transformational change in our educational system, and the conversation can get pretty lofty and philosophical. I am a strong advocate for transformational reform; but it seems to me there are two very serious roadblocks in ...
  2 days ago

• Data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 547
  I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. Ive taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate partners, and written book chapters and white papers. I collected some of the highlights of that work on my ...
  5 days ago

• Way To Go (Almost All the Way), Jay!

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  This morning Washington Post education columnist — and terrific Cato forum panelist – Jay Mathews called for abolition of the office of the U.S. Secretary of Education ! Why? Because it has proven itself worthless, that’s why: The president, I suspect, thought that Duncan, the former chief of the Chicago ...
  6 days ago

• Arne Duncan: A Flawed Proposition

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 135
  Rothstein Takes on Turnarounds From the National Journal Online debate about school turnarounds: Richard Rothstein , Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute It is an admirable goal to "turn around" low-performing schools. But before attempting this, we need to ensure that we have accurately ...
  1 week ago

• WEEKEND QUOTABLES

  
  SmallTalk — Authority: 520
  AFT prez on Chicago charter union contract Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said: “This contract is a great example of how charter schools can be incubators for innovative reforms and good labor-management practices…Civitas teachers are walking the education-reform walk by ...
  1 week ago

• CHEATING OUR KIDS

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 106
  This past week the National Center for Education Statistics released a report that may have been a shocker for people outside of the education industry:  when it comes to student achievement, many of our states are cheating!  Or at the very least, they are cheating their kids. According to an article ...
  1 week ago

• A celebratory dunk

  
  The Education Report — Authority: 125
  Photo of Benjamin Schmookler courtesy of Media Academy Benjamin Schmookler, principal of Media Academy  – a small school on East Oakland’s Fremont Federation campus — agreed to be dunked today during a celebration of the school’s improved test scores. Media Academy’s state test scores went up by 79 ...
  1 week ago

• Illinois Schools 2009 - Poor Kids Still Lag

  
  Tutor Mentor Connection — Authority: 424
  Early this morning I attended a kick off meeting of the annual Combined Charities Campaign at the US Postal Facility in Naperville, Il. I had about 2 minutes to make my pitch, so I tried to get the words "tutor mentor" and "search Internet" in my delivery. That was enough for one young woman, who wrote a $25 check ...
  1 week ago

• Closing the Proficiency Gap By Lowering the Standards

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 125
  I am shocked, shocked I tell you that some states may be lowering performance standards in order to report that high percentages of their students have reached the proficient level. Education Week reports: With 2014 approaching as the deadline by which states must get their all their students up to ...
  1 week ago

• Theres Gambling in Our Ed Assessment Casablanca?

  
  Eduflack — Authority: 417
  Yesterdays release of the National Center for Education Statistics report Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto National Assessment of Education Progress Scales: 2005-2007 seemed like it was almost lifted from the movie Casablanca.  We are shocked, shocked to learn that many states "standards" are hardly standards ...
  1 week ago

• Crapshoot

  
  Success Warrior: Alan B. Rowley II - Fitness Coach, Beachbody.com, P90X, Insanity — Authority: 423
    Tonight, you get a bit of anything and everything happening right now in my life. "What are you thinking?" Tia asked me tonight and then she answered herself on my behalf.  "That I have a shitload of homework." See how much she cares.  I didnt have to change my thoughts or speak.  Shes taking care of all of ...
  1 week ago

• Reform Is In The Air

  
  AMPS — Authority: 420
  Mike Rose at Truthdig has noted that following the extensive and unprecedented federal reach of No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration is attempting to extend this iniative further by putting some some serious money behind a number of education initiatives that invite states and districts to compete for ...
  1 week ago

• First Take: $350m Assessment Competition Guidelines

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 593
  Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released its initial overview of the competition process for the $350 million in stimulus funding set aside to improve student assessment (see Education Week’s helpful summary ). What We’ve Learned It’s All About Accountability: Not surprising, but important ...
  1 week ago

• NCLB Reauthorization?

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 420
  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has called for a speedy re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), branded the "No Child Left Behind" law (NCLB) by the Bush administration.   Since expiring in 2007, NCLB has continued under a series of temporary extensions.   Some of NCLB practices ...
  1 week ago

• Feds and ed revisted

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 542
  I’ve written a couple times recently about the Department’s lack of clarity about its view of the proper role for the feds in K-12 education. There were two parts to my argument essentially: that Secretary Duncan’s general rule that Washington doesn’t know best has come into conflict with several things ...
  1 week ago

• District Program Improvement Town Hall Meeting

  
  Reflections on Teaching — Authority: 408
  Last week was completely insane schedule-wise, and an invitation early in the week to a district town hall meeting for schools in PI (program improvement under NCLB) was the maraschino cherry that tipped it well-past being merely ambitious into Bedlam land. I did volunteer for this, but afterward I have to wonder why? ...
  1 week ago

• Holes in the “No Washington Meddling Doctrine”

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 542
  Ten days ago, I wrote at length  here about the Department’s shifting/uncertain position on federalism in education. The basic tensions I pointed out popped up again this weekend, with Secretary Duncan’s scolding of Hawaii for saving money by closing schools on 17 Fridays. “It’s inconceivable to me that ...
  2 weeks ago

• I Feel The Time Is Coming

  
  Pissed Off — Authority: 511
  Im starting to feel like Im not any good at what I do, or, I am at least not nearly as good as I used to be. I feel like people are thinking of me as a good teacher because of my reputation, not because of my deeds. Im tired. Im sick of NCLB and watching kids sit through classes that are way beyond their ...
  2 weeks ago

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