Graphic; Low-income students made up at least half the public school student population in 17 states in 2011, a marked increase from 2000, when four states topped 50 percent. By Lyndsey Layton | Originally Published at The Washington Post. October 16 E-mail the writer A majority of [...]
Varied student backgrounds get too little weight Originally Published at LoHud. October 15, 2013 The study can be read at Review and Analysis of New York State Growth Model New York’s first attempt to grade teachers on their students’ progress was flawed in several key ways, a [...]
Originally Published at Ted Talks | To peruse the Transcript Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions. It's [...]
The study is cited then censured. People pay more to live in an area with "good" schools. Might this be conventional wisdom or could it be that the statement evokes thoughts of discrimination? To state that there is a divide could be considered blasphemy. In America? We [...]
There are many trends in education that come and go. What remains the same are students and how they learn. Clothing styles change and many interpret that as a change in children, but consider this, a child dressed in rags is no different than the one donned [...]
Students cross 25th Street at South Central Park Avenue as police and a Safe Passage guard keep watch. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) You can lead a child to a welcoming school, but you cannot make him or her drink from waters that feel dangerous. No. A [...]
Regardless of the abundant research on the ineffectiveness of merit pay, states continue to adopt policies that promote the plan. However, those same lawmakers who think money motivates, refuse to fund their own programs. Hence, failed and popular policies go quietly into the darkness from which they [...]
Photograph; Paul Ribiero, director of guidance at Darien High School, presented the new counselor curriculum to the Board of Education at 35 Leroy Ave., in Darien, Conn. Photo: Megan Spicer Might the question be has the Darien school system thought to do as students have requested for [...]
Photograph; as a designated "welcoming school," Johnson School of Excellence on the West Side got upgrades to technology. But only 34 students out of 145 from shuttered Pope Elementary are enrolled at the school, according to CPS figures | WBEZ/Linda Lutton By Linda Lutton | Originally Published [...]
