Race to the Top

Do American Schools Need More Classroom Closers?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Education, Sam Chaltain, Teacher Evaluation, Race to the Top, Obama Administration, Education Reform, Teachers, Learning, Boston Red Sox, Education News

What is the statistical equivalent of a "save" in teaching -- and if we measured it, would it help us better assess a teacher's ability to support the learning and growth of children?

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As School Districts Compete for Federal Race to the Top Dollars, It's Time to Think Beyond School Walls

Hannah Matthews | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: School Districts, Early Education, Child Care, Young Children, Race to the Top, Education News

School districts concerned with improving outcomes for children would do well to look to kids' earliest years. High quality early childhood education improves the odds for high needs children.

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Teachers as Crap Detectors and the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

Alan Singer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Social Responsibility, Michael Bloomberg, Race to the Top, Mother Jones, Upton Sinclair, Bill Gates, Huck Finn, Barack Obama, New York City, Pearson Education, Margaret Mead, Rupert Murdoch, Teachers, Teaching, Frederick Douglass, Education News

Tom Roderick, executive director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, asked me to share my thoughts on teaching and crap detection. These are some of the things I learned from forty years as a teacher.

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Race To The Top Adds School Districts To U.S. Education Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.22.2012

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Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department's $4.35 billion contest, is getting personal. The competition this year opens $400 million in grant ...

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Bringing About Innovation: Where To Start?

Elianne Ramos | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Global Innovation Index, Creativity, Stem, Social Innovation, America, Social Revolution, Race to the Top, Educate to Innovate, Innovation, Becoming-Fearless, Latino Voices News

How do we inject some excitement into the learning process so that our students fall back in love with it? How do we improve current educational curricula to bring American children of every gender, age group and ethnicity up to par with students in other nations?

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Group Writes Scathing Report: What Kind Of President Would Romney Be On Education?

Posted 05.04.2012

President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney haven't been talking much about education's toughest questions aside from recent attention o...

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No More Dodging: Calif. Must Decide On Algebra Or Common Core

| John Fensterwald | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Common Core State Standards, California State Academic Standards Commission, Algebra in Eighth Grade, California, Common Core, Race to the Top, Middle School Math, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Math Education, Math, California Eighth Grade Math, Algebra, California Board of Education, California Schools, Eighth Grade Math, California Education, Video, Education News

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. For nearly two years, Califo...

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Struggle Over How To Evaluate Special Ed Teachers

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Special Education Teachers, Special Ed Teacher Evaluations, Special Ed, Florida Schools, Teacher Evaluations, Video, Florida Teachers, Special Education, South Florida Schools, Race to the Top, Teachers Unions, u.s. Department of Education, Teachers, National Association of Special Education Teachers, Education News

MIAMI -- Since the first day of class this school year, Bev Campbell has been teaching her students how to say their names. Some of the children in h...

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Vouchers, Testing-Driven Education Reform on a Collision Course?

Fred Bauer | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Education, Conservatives, School Vouchers, George W. Bush, Race to the Top, Louisiana Education, High-Stakes Testing, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Education News

For the past decade or so, numerous "conservatives" have chosen big bureaucracy over smaller, local government when crafting education policy. As the price of this choice becomes clearer, perhaps some on the right will change their minds.

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How Schools Are Killing Creativity

Line Dalile | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Obama Race to the Top, Education Reform, Obama Education, Race to the Top, Creativity, No Child Left Behind, Teen News

Our methodologies in schools are demolishing creativity. Students have lost their capacity of creation simply because our teaching methods don't stimulate innovation and free-thinking.

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Another $133 Million Available For Race To The Top Early Learning Grants

AP | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has announced that five states that were finalists in an earlier competition for millions in federal dollars to...

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Questions Abound As Districts Shift To Merit Pay For Teachers

| Scott Elliott and Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Video, Indiana Department of Education, Race to the Top, Teacher Merit Pay, Merit Pay for Teachers, Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, Teachers, Federal Grants, Indiana Schools, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. If your child's teacher seems a little bit on edge this year, it might not be your imagina...

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NYC Teacher Data Suggests Limits to Testing Regime

Fred Bauer | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Standardized Testing, Gary Rubinstein, Barack Obama, New York, New York City, Race to the Top, The New York Times, Education News

Is it highly likely that one person could be truly exceptional teaching math to sixth graders while also being utterly abysmal teaching math to seven graders? I guess it's possible, but that's a very far-out possibility.

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Floridians Won't Pull The 'Parental Trigger'

Mike Lapointe | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Tallahassee, Miami, Politics, Florida, Offthebus, For-Profit Schools, Florida Senate, Foundation for Florida's Future, Parent Across AmericaJeb Bush, Parental Trigger Laws, Race to the Top, Politics News

The Florida Senate blocked a piece of legislation Friday that would give parents -- and likely private business interests -- significantly more influence over the state school system.

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VAMs: Building a New Social Order

Timothy D. Slekar | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Teacher Quality, Nclb, George Counts, Race to the Top, Value-Added Models, Education News

It is now guaranteed that any child in a public school whose teacher is evaluated with VAMs will receive a bare bones curriculum, focused only on isolated skills.

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Mr. President: Improving the U.S. Education System Is Not a Competitive Sport

Arnold L. Mitchem | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Federal Education Reform, Education Reform, Public Education, Education Policy, Federal-Education-Policy, Federal Education Policy, Obama Race to the Top, Race to the Top, Race to the Top Funding, Education News

Obama is unafraid to shake up the education establishment, challenge old assumptions and dramatically step up the federal government's role as a catalyst for change. But what he sees as a powerful lever, I view as a troubling trend.

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Race To The Top -- Coming To A City Near You

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Education News, Arne Duncan, Andrea Mitchell, American Federation of Teachers, Antonio Villaraigosa, Teacher Data Reports, Randi Weingarten, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Standardized Tests, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Education, Video, Obama Education, Education Nation, Rahm Emanuel, Education Reform, Education News

Opening a new phase for the Obama administration's role in education reform, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sig...

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How Sleuths Catch Cheater Teachers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Dcps, Education, Video, Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Arne Duncan, Obama Education, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Dcps Cheating, Standardized Tests, Obama Administration, Cheating, Kaya Henderson, Georgia Teachers, Washington Dc Cheating, Education News

The first time Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County, Georgia, district attorney, interviewed educators suspected of cheating on exams in 56 Atlanta scho...

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Cuomo, Common Core and Pearson-for-Profit

Alan Singer | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Pearson Education, Andrew Cuomo, Department of Education, Common Core, Rethinking Schools, Race to the Top, America's Choice, Standardized Testing, Teach for America, Technology, New York Public Education, Education News

According to the New York Times, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is "investigating whether the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of one of the nation's largest educational publishers, acted improperly to influence state education officials."

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Free College Is the Answer to Our Higher Education Crisis

Bernard Starr | Posted 04.24.2012

Our nation is facing a crisis -- with vast domestic and worldwide implications -- that can only be addressed by thinking out of the box about education.

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Heeding the Evidence on Teacher Quality

John Thompson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Teacher Quality, Jesse Rothstein, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arne Duncan, Linda Darling Hammond, Bill Gates, Edward Haertel, Measuring Effective Teaching, Race to the Top, Education News

If Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had had any idea what the latest Gates Foundation project would find, would he have gambled so heavily on test-driven policies in Race to the Top and his other "teacher quality" reforms?

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On The Daily Show, Arne Duncan Rehashes Policies, Plans

Posted 04.18.2012

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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was in New York Thursday as Jon Stewart's guest on The Daily Show, largely rehashing the Obama administration'...

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RESPECT: Find Out What It Means to Me

Alan Singer | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Pearson Education, Chris Christie, Apple, Arne Duncan, New Jersey, Michael Bloomberg, Microsoft, Race to the Top, New York Times, New York City, Barack Obama, Education News

After three years of demonizing teachers, the Obama administration apparently now realizes it will need teacher union support and teacher and public school parent votes to be reelected.

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Duncan To Announce Teacher Contest Focused On Quality

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Teacher Quality, Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Barack Obama, Teacher Training, Race to the Top, Teacher Pay, Arne Duncan, Teacher Contest, Obama Administration, Teacher Salary, Teachers, Teacher Competition, Teacher Performance, Education News

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday spelled out details of a proposed new $5 billion Race to the Top-style competition foc...

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5 Things Obama's Budget Does For Higher Ed

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Photos, Department of Education, Budget, Race to the Top, President Obama, Obama, Community Colleges, Education Funding, Barack Obama, 2013 Budget, President's Budget, First in the World, Slideshow, Higher Education, Research Universities, College Funding, Pell Grants, For-Profit Colleges, College News

President Obama's budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year would beef up spending on higher education. Appropriately, he unveiled it at a community c...

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