What have states done to raise the bar on student achievement? A lot. (Achieve)
Teaching with… Facebook? (My Digital Education Space)
Want to read about a real Mr. Holland? Warning: Get out your tissues. (New York Times)
Is it time for the Obama Administration to address college transfer credits? National experts urge action. (ACTA)
All Posts Tagged: 'Student Achievement'
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Who Lost the Heartland?
“Use student achievement to measure teachers” is a catch-phrase or headline you might expect to hear or see working on education policy inside the beltway, but it wasn’t exactly what I expected to see waking up Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. But, lo and behold, teacher evaluations were the focus of the front and back [...]
Not All Higher Education Spending is Created Equal
At least that’s the conclusion reached in a new working paper from Cornell University’s Higher Education Research Institute. First mentioned in Inside Higher Ed, the paper takes advantage of data from the Delta Cost Project to study the relation between certain types of higher education spending and student achievement.
Specifically, the researchers looked at four different [...]
Darling-Hammond Unbound
Score one for the KAPPAN magazine. The edu-magazine has a very timely piece on school accountability in its just-mailed December issue by top Obama policy advisor Linda Darling-Hammond. Anonymous “reformers,” some of whom also have ties to the Obama administration-in-waiting, have been taking shots at the Stanford professor during the transition, in part because she [...]
Furthermore
Expanding a little more on yesterday’s post about “Bigger, Bolder,” which presented a lot of good ideas, both educational and non-educational, as an alternative to the current accountability regime, but never quite got around to saying what we should do with the current regime.
Why didn’t they? There are plenty of alternatives to having the federal [...]
Cutting it at the Front of the Classroom
The American Federation of Teachers has released a statement on a report we published yesterday. The report’s called “Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education.” As the title suggests, it looks at the ways school systems figure out who’s cutting it at the front of the classroom and who isn’t. It’s a pretty important [...]
Reapply or Say Goodbye
The Baltimore Sun reports that Annapolis superintendent Kevin Maxwell is making the entire staff of Annapolis High School reapply for their jobs. The school is chronically low-performing and will face intervention next year if something’s not done to improve student achievement. Teachers are feeling scapegoated (most amusing quote of the Sun article: “Where is the [...]
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
03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.