Achievement Gap

Study Finds NCLB Law Lifted Math Scores
Education Week (premium article access compliments of EdWeek.org) | 2 hours 48 minutes ago
Researchers found large gains in math scores for 4th graders and moderate ones for 8th graders, but no similar evidence for reading achievement.

Michelle Rhee: Using Accountability to Rescue Washington's Troubled Educational System | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 6 hours 23 minutes ago
For example, Rhee says, the differential between the city's white and African American students, as illustrated by their SAT and Advanced Placement test scores, has reached "hundreds of points." And the problem, she says, is the school system, not the students. The city's African American students, Rhee says, are not getting the quality of instruction they deserve. She believes those scores can rise significantly, but it is the job of the adults in the school system to see that they...

Child's play spurs serious debate
Washington Post, The | 8 hours 22 minutes ago
Educators argue over best use of time for pre-schoolers

Stimulus Package to Quickly Impact Education Technology | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 10 hours 28 minutes ago
Education technology gets a $650 million boost under the economic-stimulus plan, more than doubling the current federal budget for it and proving that President Obama's commitment to technology is more than just words.

Education at Risk: Fallout from a Flawed Report | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 10 hours 28 minutes ago
We hear a lot these days about the catastrophic state of American public schools. According to pundits' dire pronouncements, our kids supposedly compare terribly when ranked academically against all others in the world. Politicians ask us to take a stand: Are we for, or against, school reform?

Diversity, achievement are on agenda of St. Paul superintendent candidates
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) | 10 hours 53 minutes ago
Three candidates go down to the wire to be named superintendent of St. Paul Public Schools.

Social Media in Schools | Edutopia
Edutopia.org | 11 hours 12 minutes ago
I am interested in everyone's thoughts on the role of social media in schools. Does your school have a policy? If not, do you think one should be developed? In your opinion, what role does/should social media play in the education of students today? What sites are blocked at your school?

Black, Hispanic Parents Say They Don't Feel Welcome In Schools
Hartford Courant (Conn.), The | 13 hours 32 minutes ago
Black and Hispanic parents and community leaders said they often don't feel welcome in schools and expressed frustration with uninterested teachers at the first of several town hall-style meetings Thursday organized by a new coalition of legislators and activists called Campaign LEARN.

COLUMN: Transform state school system
Wausau Daily Herald (Wis.), The | 15 hours 13 minutes ago
Each year, we observe American Education Week as an opportunity to show support and appreciation for public education. This year's Nov. 15 through Nov. 21 event is certainly a time to celebrate the vision we have for educating our nation's young people. No other country has our tradition of striving to educate all its children.

St. Louis Public School teachers agree to take 2-day furlough
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 16 hours 26 minutes ago
St. Louis Public Schools' 4,000 employees will take a temporary pay cut this year to help trim a $13 million midyear budget shortage.

$335 million in education grants
Seattle Times, The | 16 hours 56 minutes ago
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a large teacher-effectiveness effort Thursday, awarding $335 million in grants aimed at revamping the way teachers are recruited, trained, evaluated and paid.

Charter schools in L.A. area win $60-million grant
Los Angeles Times | 16 hours 58 minutes ago
The five organizations will receive the money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a system to evaluate teachers based partly on student test scores.

Gates helps fund city teacher effectiveness project
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 20 hours 17 minutes ago
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday awarded $290 million in teacher-effectiveness grants to schools in Pittsburgh and three other cities, saying the bold initiatives they've proposed have the chance to shape the future of teaching in America.