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






Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success