Elena Silva, Senior Policy Analyst

Posts by Elena Silva:

• Spreading Teacher Talent
• Engaging Elephants in Education Reform
• Teaching is the Worst Job on Earth
• Extending School Time
• Gritty Teachers
• The Way It Could Be
• Prison Food
• Reviewing the Review of What Happened in Montgomery County
• TIME Act Reintroduced
• Teachers Unions Don’t Matter
• Testing Dropouts
• Illegals Get All the Breaks
• Last Week, Next Up on Testing
• A lot to Say About Testing
• Testing in the 21st Century
• Four-Day Weeks
• Schools of the (Very Near) Future
• Research on Incentives
• Replacing Teachers in PG
• Hearing Back on Benwood
• Teacher Tests in Peru
• It’s All About Tennessee
• Notes on SES
• Long Before NCLB…
• Same Sax Story (And Some Sense From Sara)
• 8 1/2 Million Dollars an Hour
• More Time Movement
• Population Projections Per Pew’s Passel (& Cohn)
• If You Pay Them They Will Pass
• No Child Tickets
• Funding Gaps
• Disconnected Youth
• Blogging and So Much More
• Paying and Evaluating Teachers
• A More Selective Pool of Teachers
• Another Way to Give Green This Holiday
• Pre-K Nearly Everyday
• The Same Same-Sex Story
• Perspectives on Immigrant English Learners
• Teachers In Need of Improvement
• Speak Up
• Dem Candidates on Extending School Time
• Small (podlike, academy-style, learning community, schools-within-a) School
• Obama’s Plan(ning) for Education
• Money’s Worth for New Teachers
• Unions, Pay for Performance and No Grapes
• Education Policy Courses & Pre-K
• Go Schools.Com/Courage
• Kid Politics
• States Need More Voltage
• Edwards on Teachers and Super Tutors
• The Enduring Hope*
• The Purpose of Testing
• Right Now: House Hearings on NCLB
• Who’s Saying What About NCLB Re-Auth
• Re-NCLB on English Language Learners
• Don’t Do It, Virginia
• CAP on School Time
• College Knowledge
• Pre-K in Virginia and Beyond
• A Quality Teacher In Every Classroom
• Business Schools
• Business Schools
• Baby Achievement
• US News’ College Rankings
• Baby Achievement
• US News’ College Rankings
• Then Again, What Do They Know?
• Hispanic Students Are Smarter
• Dual Immersion in Texas
• Then Again, What Do They Know?
• Hispanic Students Are Smarter
• Dual Immersion in Texas
• Rest in Peace, Dr. Hilliard
• Rest in Peace, Dr. Hilliard
• Tonight! PBS Merrow Report #2
• Tonight! PBS Merrow Report #2
• The Hottest Schools
• PBS Merrow Report on NCLB
• School Time Update
• Dare To Compare
• Pre-K Notes
• But How Do You Really Feel About It? Poll Results from EdNext
• To Teach or Not to Teach
• School Time
• Fairfax Gives In To Testing ELLS
• My Very Smart Baby
• More Blame For Title IX
• Time Marches On
• STRIVE Act Includes DREAM
• Hearing on English Language Learners
• New Dream Act
• Basketball, Girls and Tech
• Immigrant Tuition Debates in Maryland
• Ed and Virginia Fighting Over the Kids Again
• Presidential Ideas
• For A Good Time…
• Reapply or Say Goodbye
• A Good Thing About What Works
• More School Time
• Bennet’s (Revised) Rescue Plan
• Intra-Q&E Foreign Language Smackdown Continues
• Score One For The Aardvark
• Dropping Harvard
• Real Football For Thanksgiving
• Some of the Best School Films
• I Couldn’t Resist
• Look For Those Lights Tonight
• More Flex For Single Sex
• The Real Problem In Our Schools
• Yes, I’m Going To College (Unless I Go Pro)
• He Can’t Be Serious
• Speak English or Die
• Cheaters!
• 20 More Days (of the same?)
• SMART Snags
• Sobering History
• Separate by Sex
• If They Can’t Get Into College…
• Limited English (and Spanish) Proficiency
• World Cup 2007, Thanks Title IX
• The Summer Escape
• Engineering Better Content Standards
• Dreaming About College