Syllabus: Week of June 24, 2013
Welcome to the Syllabus, a guide that provides insight into what’s happening in higher education. Read: Supreme Court Returns Affirmative Action Case to Lower Courts, Mark WalshEducation Week On...
View ArticlePromising Trends, but Discouraging Numbers, in Early Childhood Education...
An oft-repeated lament in the early childhood world is that child care workers are so low-paid that, on average, they earn less than parking lot attendants. A new analysis supported by the Institute of...
View ArticleWhat ‘Sid the Science Kid’ Means for Adults
Last month I had the opportunity to write about one of my favorite preschool television shows, Sid the Science Kid. The piece, “How Kids’ Television Inspires a Lifelong Love of Science,” is part of a...
View ArticleAt National Journal: Where Teachers Fit in Today’s ESEA Debate
Last week the National Journal Education Expert blog posed a question about teacher provisions in the House (H.R.5) and Senate (S.1094) ESEA reauthorization bills and whether the “highly qualified...
View ArticleStorify: House 'No Child Left Behind' Debate
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Ed Money Watch.On July 18 and 19, members of the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor for a heated debate on a proposed reauthorization of the No...
View ArticleStorify: House 'No Child Left Behind' Debate
This post also appeared on our sister blog, Early Ed Watch.On July 18 and 19, members of the U.S. House of Representatives took to the floor for a heated debate on a proposed reauthorization of the No...
View ArticleAt US News' Debate Club: Fix, Don't Eliminate, the Federal Role in Education
Yesterday, US News & World Report asked five experts in its Debate Club whether the Senate should pass the House’s No Child Left Behind rewrite – the Student Success Act. With the last week's House...
View ArticleThe Way We Talk: Accountability
This is the second in a series of posts reflecting on terminology pervading today’s polarizing debates about American education. In each post, we ask how various buzzwords—“professionalism,”...
View ArticleIES Report: Early Interventions and Early Childhood Education
On July 23rd the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) released a report on research pertaining to early childhood education. The report describes findings supported by IES early intervention and...
View ArticleWaiver Watch: States, Pass Teacher Evaluation Legislation At Your Own Risk
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education placed three states’ No Child Left Behind waivers on “high risk” status, the first serious action to enforce flexibility requirements by the Department. All...
View ArticleHow Well are Today’s Teachers Prepared for the Classroom?
This summer, the National Council on Teacher Quality released its first Teacher Prep Review, finding that many preparation programs poorly equip prospective teachers to meet the needs of today’s...
View ArticleThree States with NCLB Waivers Slow to Make Student Growth Part of Teacher...
Last week, officials at the U.S. Department of Education put three states’ No Child Left Behind waivers on high-risk status – Kansas, Oregon, and Washington – for not following through on their teacher...
View ArticlePreK-3rd Grade Work Elevated in New Round of Race to the top – ELC
Last week, the US Departments of Education and Health and Human Services released the application for the next round of the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge program. This new round includes a...
View ArticleChild Care Workforce Lacking in Opportunities
Federal data suggest that in 2010, the nation’s nearly 1.3 million child care workers earned an average of around $9.28 per hour, or $19,300 per year. The lowest-paid 10 percent of workers earned less...
View ArticleNew Report Highlights Top Teachers’ Views on Education Policy
“Good teaching is hard to define, even for the profession’s most successful and reflective members.” So says a new report from The New Teacher Project (TNTP) that compiles highly effective teachers’...
View ArticleStorify: Delaware Education Leaders on Implementing Comprehensive Education...
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View ArticleWhat to Think About the DC IMPACT Study
Few teacher evaluation reforms have been as contentious as the IMPACT system in D.C. Public Schools. But a new study published by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff provides the firstempiricalevidence that...
View ArticleCan New Accreditation Standards Improve Teacher Preparation?
Teacher preparation programs have come under fire in recent years for poorly preparing new teachers to meet the needs of today’s students and the demands of education reforms. Most recently, the...
View ArticlePre-K is Win-Win, Concludes a New Report
Early education is one of the most powerful ways to close the achievement gap between low-income and minority children and their more-advantaged peers. But all too often, pre-K advocates cite the same,...
View ArticleTroubling & Promising Findings in NCTQ Scan of State Teacher Eval Policies
Of the 40 states and D.C. that require student achievement as a factor in teacher evaluation, fewer than half have an explicit policy for using student achievement measures to evaluate teachers of...
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