Fordham grades the new Common Core standards (pdf). Interestingly, their grades are the opposite of what you’re hearing from a lot of people — they like the math more than the ELA standards.
Grades Are In!
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)NEWS: As ballots come in, a look at the teachers union elections
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
Tonight, as members of New York City’s teachers union celebrate the union’s 50th anniversary with a line up of political and labor celebrities, some of their members will be sitting at home or in schools filling out ballots.That’s because the United Federation of Teachers is in the midst of an election for its president and [...]
NEWS: Teachers union elections: who votes and who cares
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
In the first part of several posts on the upcoming teachers union elections, here’s a look at how voting works and who does it.Every three years, the UFT contracts its internal election out to the American Arbitration Association, and on March 12, the AAA sent out 167,000 ballots to UFT members. Those ballots went to [...]
Arlington advocates protest School Board budget plans
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Several groups went on the attack last week, preparing comments and setting up petitions and Facebook pages to save items from the Arlington County School Board's budget ax.
Punishing Success, Gutting the Future
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Two of the most successful state virtual schools, in Florida and Idaho, continue to race backwards.The St. Petersburg Times reports that the supposedly reform-oriented Florida legislature continues to propose cuts to the state-run Florida Virtual School. If enacted, the cuts would mean a total funding reduction of almost twenty percent over the past two years–much [...]
NEWS: Remainders: Duncan hears RttT skepticism in the House
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
Some Democratic House members are pushing back on Duncan’s plan to expand Race to the Top.Mrs. Mimi argues that it’s not the fault of teachers that their evaluations need fixing.NYC Educator says 50 years is too long for a single party to control the UFT.Jay Mathews thinks the recent boom in the number of high [...]
COMMUNITY: Bringing Democracy Back to Our Schools
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
The bake-in rally that we organized last Thursday outside City Hall to protest the new chancellor’s regulation banning the sale of home-cooked foods at schools while allowing highly processed foods to be sold instead wasn’t simply a contest between Mommy’s oatmeal raisin cookies and a bag of cool-ranch Doritos. It was about restoring the democratic [...]
Capital Gains update
Posted in News by nathan 166 days ago (http://www.dcedublog.com)
The folks over at GFBRANDENBURG'S BLOG have been crunching some statistics around the DCPS Capital Gains program and the analysis doesn't point to success.The group that was NOT bribed had a small (about one-half of a percent) rise in reading proficiency.The group that WAS bribed (up to $100 every two weeks per student if they did everything right) had a decrease of nearly 2% in reading proficien
Mathews: Teacher's cheating solution fails with principal
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Last week's column, full of practical suggestions on how to limit cheating, did not seem controversial to me. Many teachers sent their own ideas. Many recommended small adjustments, such as having the questions in different order for different students, to hinder copying.
Saving State U.
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)
It’s widely recognized that public colleges and universities are in trouble. With the exception of a few states, most higher education systems are facing substantial financial cuts, reductions in funding that will inevitably lead to higher tuition, fewer offerings and services, or likely some combination of these factors.Part of the problem higher education faces is [...]
NEWS: 2,000 soon-to-be kindergarten students on wait lists this year
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
It’s becoming a New York City spring ritual: thousands of parents sign up their children for kindergarten only to find that the school they’re zoned for is all out of room. This year, the early enrollment period ended with about 2,000 soon-to-be kindergartners on waiting lists, city officials said today.Those students and their families represent [...]
COMMUNITY: My kingdom for a parking space. Oh, never mind
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://gothamschools.org)
My first teaching job was in a pretty rough school. So imagine my surprise one day when one of my colleagues said, “This is a great school to work at.” I waited for him to elaborate and tried not to fall over. He added, “Because of the parking!” He was right about that. We had [...]
Bridging a class divide, one English lesson at a time
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://feeds.washingtonpost.com)
In Honduras, Ana Carolina Ebanks was a public defender. But when she immigrated to the United States six years ago, the career did not come with her. Today, she has a job on the campus of American University, a short walk from its law school. She works in the student dining hall, making burritos.
Some D.C. students will receive Easter Egg Roll tickets
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://feeds.washingtonpost.com)
Ever since the scramble for tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll moved online , many Washington area residents have felt a little cheated. The competition for tickets is no longer a long line you can visually size up. Now it's elusive, nationwide clicking.
Students push for aid overhaul; lenders lobby against it
Posted in News by nathan 167 days ago (http://feeds.washingtonpost.com)
College students swarmed Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for more financial aid as private lenders made a last push to preserve their endangered role in making federal student loans.
Fickle Fordham
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The Thomas B. Fordham Institute staff can’t seem to agree about the proper role of the federal government in education reform. Andy Smarick, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow, has been reviewing the finalists for the $4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program and has found the state plans wanting. (This is the same person [...]
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