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• SMHC Issues Urgent Report on Talent in Education

  
  SMHC — Authority: 401
  Today, SMHC released a call to action outlining the dramatic steps necessary to improve teacher and principal talent. Taking Human Capital Seriously: Talented Teachers in Every Classroom, Talented Principals in Every School comes in response to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s August challenge, in which he ...
  6 days ago

• Tech school plan attacks math and reading deficiencies

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 604
  An intensive reading initiative and an inclusive mathematics program will help improve student achievement at Bucks County Technical High School, the school principal said. The comprehensive tech school landed in School Improvement I status after not enough juniors scored at or above their grade level on the ...
  1 week ago

• Schools, teachers tackle ever growing list of issues before learning can occur

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 127
  I’ve been told before I am a natural teacher. But I know better than to ever try it for real. Hearing my friend’s frustrations within her son’s school confirms my suspicions. Jay just started kindergarten but has quickly excelled as a star student, earning a student of the week recognition in the very ...
  1 week ago

• Ben Chavis to Charles Murray: “Bring it”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  In an exchange I had with Charles Murray earlier this month, he complained that there was no bulletproof scientific research documenting miraculous improvement in student achievement attributable to great schools like those of Ben Chavis . At the time, that objection was beside my point, which is that there is ...
  1 week ago

• Addressing roots of achievement gap, a sticky, complex endeavor

  
  The Leading Source — Authority: 127
  It was a completely inappropriate outburst, but it may be one of the most important questions ever asked about the achievement gap: “Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” a frustrated English teacher, Patrick Welsh, asked his class of African-American seniors who had just flunked yet another ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dallas ISD Daily Dish

  
  DALLAS ISD — Authority: 133
  Todays tray of hot district morsels ... **When do you want your kids in school? If youre a Dallas ISD parent, you can provide input into the 2010-11 DISD school calendar. Just go to DISDs website , where you can vote for one of two options. One big difference is when students are released for the summer -- before ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lilly Endowment Awards $2 Million to Support I-STEM Resource Net...

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 147
  The grant will support the Indiana-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Resource Network, a statewide consortium of eighteen higher education institutions dedicated to improving student achievement in elementary and secondary schools....
  3 weeks ago

• Race to the Top = Klondike Bar

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Remember the ads in which actors…er, people…would enthusiastically do demeaning things for Klondike Bars? You know, ads like this one , in which Shakespeare stoops to writing a TV sitcom in exchange for one of those chocolate-encrusted ice cream blocks? The message, of course, was that the Bard and all ...
  3 weeks ago

• Work, Work, Work

  
  The Thoughtful Teacher — Authority: 98
  I’m engaged in some exciting education projects here in “historic downtown Hillsboro,” as the local politicos like to call it. Have been for a while. Leaves little time for coherent blogging, so I’m password protecting this blog Wednesday, October 14th (temporarily) except for those of you on my blog roll ...
  4 weeks ago

• Michelle Rhee’s IMPACT on Teachers and Teaching

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  From the day President Obama gave his first major “education speech” last March, the current administration made it perfectly clear that tying teacher evaluations to student performance will be a priority in the national reform agenda. In fact, application guidelines for the $4.35 billion Race to the Top ...
  5 weeks ago

• Does DISD still want the Broad Prize?

  
  DALLAS ISD — Authority: 133
  I dont know if you all have noticed but talk of DISD winning the Broad Prize for Urban Education by 2010 is nearly non-existent. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa used to always refer to the districts goal to obtain the award, and he gave himself five years to do it shortly after his arrival in 2005. DISD has ...
  7 weeks ago

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