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Hidden Resources, Hidden Opportunities: What States Can Do to Support Schools in Tough Times

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Districts and states are facing huge budget shortfalls and are being forced to cut education spending. If the face of this economic climate Education Resource Strategies (ERS) set out to reveal the most effective ways to cut costs while maintaining results. They find that billions of education dollars are trapped each year, due to state Read more about Hidden Resources, Hidden Opportunities: What States Can Do to Support Schools in Tough Times[…]

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2011 Education Appropriations Guide

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he New America Foundation’s Federal Education Budget Project (FEBP) released an issue brief on recently finalized fiscal year 2011 federal education appropriations.  The paper, 2011 Education Appropriations Guide, by FEBP Director Jason Delisle and Senior Policy Analyst Jennifer Cohen, provides a summary and analysis of the $68.3 billion education budget for fiscal year 2011, using Read more about 2011 Education Appropriations Guide[…]

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Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels on recently passed reform legislation

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Last month at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Governor Mitch Daniels touted his successes in Indiana education reform, stressing that bills passed in the just-concluded legislative session “end discrimination against charters” and put the state’s education system on the road to recovery after “a regime that attempted to choke the charter school.” Still, Read more about Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels on recently passed reform legislation[…]

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Investing in Innovation Competition

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The U.S. Department of Education announced that $150 million will be available for the next round of Investing in Innovation (i3) grants to continue support for evidence-based practices in education. Individual school districts, groups of districts, and nonprofits in partnership with districts or a consortium of schools are invited to apply. Award amounts have been Read more about Investing in Innovation Competition[…]

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Joel Klein on the Political Forces Preventing Reform

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In a lengthy article in The Atlantic Monthly, former NYC Chancellor Joel Klein writes that New York’s system has seen dramatic reforms over the past nine years, but “is still not remotely where it needs to be.” Klein points to several inhibitors — unions, politicians, bureaucrats, and vendors — and characterizes them as well-organized and Read more about Joel Klein on the Political Forces Preventing Reform[…]

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Actually, College Is Very Much Worth It

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It seems that it’s becoming fashionable to poo-poo college education. After all, can’t you get all the information you’ll ever need for free on the Internet? Why pay tuition? In a recent Time magazine article, Andrew Rotherham explores the real value of a college education related to standard of living. His findings: According to the Read more about Actually, College Is Very Much Worth It[…]

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Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Sobering Lessons from a Half Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools

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Last month, the American Enterprise Institute held a day-long conference on the Federal Role in education. Video highlights, panel discussions and links to white papers are available at http://www.aei.org/event/100357#doc. My favorite video clip is of Michael Petrelli discussing how the federal government can “do what it’s good at.” Instead of asking, What can the federal Read more about Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Sobering Lessons from a Half Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools[…]

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Speaking of Salaries: A Report from the Center for American Progress

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The fact that well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States has received growing public attention. Studies in state after state have found that students of color in low- income schools are 3 to 10 times more likely to have unqualified teachers than students in predominantly white schools. In Speaking of Salaries: Read more about Speaking of Salaries: A Report from the Center for American Progress[…]

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Book Review: The Business of Children

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Looking for a change of pace from academic reports and scholarly articles? Chloe Jon Paul, retired educator, has just released a novel detailing the experiences of four educators,  Vera Harriss, Deidre Fletcher, Mark Pettingill, and Stu Martel, over the course of  a single academic year. What causes Vera, who is about to retire, to vent Read more about Book Review: The Business of Children[…]

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The Condition of Education 2011

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The Department’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), released “The Condition of Education 2011,” a Congressionally mandated report to the country on education in America today.  The report includes 50 indicators in five major areas — education participation, learner outcomes, student effort and educational progress, the contexts Read more about The Condition of Education 2011[…]

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The No Child Left Behind Showdown

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The announcement of regulatory flexibility for No Child Left Behind from Washington has caused quite a stir.  Bipartisan critisims of the Duncan plan and critique from education reformers and special interest groups abound. Some object to the Department of Education infringing on law-making responsibilities that belong to Congress, others object to the idea of attaching Read more about The No Child Left Behind Showdown[…]

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Regulatory Flexibility on NCLB

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The Obama Administration plans to provide regulatory flexibility around No Child Left Behind (NCLB) if Congress does not complete work on a reauthorization bill prior to the August recess, in order to help support reform efforts underway at the state and local level. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised Congress for working on both sides of Read more about Regulatory Flexibility on NCLB[…]

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Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic School Change

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District-led, dramatic change efforts in failing schools-including turnarounds and school closures-often face strong resistance from families and communities. Resistance may be based on district-community tensions, failed past school improvement efforts, or a lack of understanding about what is possible in schools.  In this new presentation by Public Impact, nine strategies are proposed to address these Read more about Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic School Change[…]

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Report from the International Summit on the Teaching Profession

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The U.S. Department of Education and Asia Society released a report last week entitled, “Improving Teacher Quality Around the World: The International Summit on the Teaching Profession,” addressing lessons shared during the two-day event held in New York City in March. The summit marked the first-ever convening of education ministers, teachers, and union leaders from Read more about Report from the International Summit on the Teaching Profession[…]

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Common Core – There’s an App for That!

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You won’t believe this, but MasteryConnect has just released a free app with searchable Common Core Standards for math and language arts. So now, if you’re in a long line at the grocery store and wondering what the standards are for reading informational text in 5th grade, you’ve got the information at your fingertips! (Okay..so Read more about Common Core – There’s an App for That![…]

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Growth Models and Accountability: A Recipe for Remaking ESEA?

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As the reauthorization of ESEA draws nearer, Education Sector’s Policy Director Kevin Carey and Robert Manwaring, a fiscal and policy consultant, argue in a newly released report, Growth Models and Accountability: A Recipe for Remaking ESEA, that Congress should combine a measure of student growth with achievement into a single accountability measure in the design Read more about Growth Models and Accountability: A Recipe for Remaking ESEA?[…]

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