‘Obama Advocates Longer School Year, Higher Teacher Pay’
President Barack Obama said Monday that he would like to extend the school year and raise teacher pay to help improve the U.S. education system. Mr. Obama, in an interview on NBC's "Today," said...
View Article‘Facebook-Driven Newark Overhaul Lurches Forward’
Some say New Jersey's governor and the mayor of Newark don't have the power to make the operational changes they've promised. David G. Sciarra, the director of the Education Law Center, a Newark-based...
View Article‘Education Week: Race to Top Winners Face Data System Challenges’
Today only 11 states—including grant-winners Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Delaware—meet the campaign's 10 essential data system elements, such as having unique student and teacher identifier...
View Article‘D.C. loss worries education reformers’
Mayor Adrian Fenty staked his career on overhauling the District of Columbia’s education system with Obama-style reforms — closing dozens of failing schools and firing hundreds of teachers. Then the...
View Article‘Congress Adjourns Without Passing School-Meals Bill’
Congress adjourned for the November elections without reauthorizing the federal law that controls the nation’s school meals program. But school nutrition and anti-hunger advocates say that delay could...
View Article‘California Public Schools Face Lawsuit Over Fees’
Public schools across the nation, many facing budget shortfalls, have been charging students fees to use textbooks or to take required tests or courses. Now a civil liberties group is suing California...
View Article‘Bucks teacher’s blog comments land her in trouble’
Just saw this on Twitter. She wished on a personal blog that she could describe her students as "ratlike," "frightfully dim" or "dunderheads" on their report cards. Now, administrators at Central Bucks...
View Article’4,100 Massachusetts Students Prove Small Isn’t Always Better’
What makes Brockton High’s story surprising is that, with 4,100 students, it is an exception to what has become received wisdom in many educational circles — that small is almost always better. Read...
View Article$ Track Education Stimulus Spending $
Dig in. If you find something interesting, post it in the comments. We'll post interesting facts whenever we have more time to search around on this new database: Tracking Education Stimulus Spending |...
View Article“Study Challenges States on ‘Fairness’ of Funding”
Delaware got a "D" on this report. A new study finds that many states fall short in the “fairness” of their school funding models, measured not just by the amount of money they provide to education,...
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