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Plano ISD considers offering incentives to students who return as teachers
By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News mhaag@dallasnews.com 08:26 AM CDT on Thursday, August 26, 2010 The next batch of Plano schoolteachers might already be in the district’s classrooms. Read More>
Read MoreMiddle schools getting a makeover
Monday, July 26, 2010 02:51 AM By Jennifer Smith Richards THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Columbus’ middle schools have been living a lie. But before the school year starts, they’re coming clean: They’ve actually been junior high schools. Read More>
Read MoreEvaluation of teachers overhauled
By Mary B. Pasciak News Staff Reporter Updated: July 26, 2010, 4:07 PM For the past 20 years, when a Buffalo teacher got a negative evaluation, a piece of paper went into the teacher’s file documenting the problems. Read More>
Read MoreScholars Target Arizona’s Policies for ELL Students
By Mary Ann Zehr Published Online: July 8, 2010 Arizona’s program for teaching English-language learners, which has been implemented for two school years by state mandate, will “almost certainly” widen the achievement gap between ELLs and their mainstream peers, concludes a qualitative study of five Arizona school districts released today by a California research-and-advocacy group. [...]
Read MoreOnline Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray
By JAN HOFFMAN Published: June 27, 2010 The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J [...]
Read MoreEducators Are Opposed to Obama’s School Plan
By GERRY SHIH Published: June 5, 2010 When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced last week that California was submitting a new bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in financing under President Obama’s education initiative, Race to the Top, he could not resist a Hollywood joke. Read More>
Read MoreCharter schools seeking to expand
Proposals could add 4,000 seats in Boston By James Vaznis Globe Staff / June 29, 2010 Several high-performing charter schools in Boston are pursuing proposals that could yield nearly a dozen additional schools in the city over the next few years, the most robust expansion in more than a decade. Read More>
Read MoreScoring Low, More Pupils Face School This Summer
By JENNIFER MEDINA Published: June 10, 2010 An estimated 21,000 elementary and middle school students scored at the lowest levels on state math and reading exams, New York City education officials said Thursday, meaning that twice as many students in those schools as last year will be required to enroll in summer school. Read More>
Read MoreTeacher Pink Slips May Be Latest Proof of Anti-Spending Pressure
by Pat Wingert May 28, 2010 Nobody likes the prospect of financially pressed school districts handing out thousands of pink slips to teachers, but Democrats’ proposal for a $23 billion bailout attracted so many critics early on that it seemed doomed from the start, despite energetic lobbying by teachers’ unions and congressional educational leaders. Read [...]
Read MoreMinn. Law Spurs Charter Sponsors to Think Twice
By Dakarai I. Aarons Published Online: June 18, 2010 A major overhaul to a Minnesota law aimed at strengthening accountability for those who sponsor charter schools is drawing both praise and criticism and spurring some districts to consider getting out of the business of authorizing such schools. Read More>
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