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Joy Resmovits

Senator Tells Schools Chief: 'We Are In Regulatory Purgatory, Sir'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.07.2013 | Politics

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan faced an angsty Senate education committee Thursday as he was forced to defend his administration's workaround...

5-Year-Olds Put To The Test As Kindergarten Exams Gain Steam

Reuters | Posted 11.26.2012 | Home

(Repeats with text unchanged) * At least 25 states mandate kindergarten assessment * Critics worry testing 5-year-olds i...

Joy Resmovits

Texas 41st State To Back Away From Bush's No Child Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.08.2012 | Home

Texas, the state that launched school accountability as an experiment, has applied to untangle itself from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind m...

Justin Snider: Thinking We Know What We Test

| Justin Snider | Posted 10.23.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. An op-ed in The New York Times on August 20th, "Testing What We Think We Know," argued tha...

GOP Gov: High Schools Should Pay For Graduates' Remedial College Classes

Posted 07.27.2012 | Home

Maine Gov. Paul LePage thinks school districts should be responsible for their graduates' remedial courses in college. So in a plan to improve educ...

Struggling Newark School Prepares, Again, To Reinvent Itself

| Sara Neufeld | Posted 06.14.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. A new spirit of reform pervades Quitman Street Community School in Newark, N.J. In recent ...

We Don't Judge Teachers by Numbers Alone -- The Same Should Go for Schools

Michael J. Petrilli | Posted 06.10.2012 | Home
Michael J. Petrilli

The correct response to the unintended consequences of accountability isn't to end accountability, but to make it work better. That could have positive consequences for many years to come.

Joy Resmovits

Will Education Be A Decisive Election Issue In 2012?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012 | Home

After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

Whither the District: Leaders Must Lead on School Reform

Teach Plus | Posted 03.27.2012 | Home
Teach Plus

Missing from the conversation about education reform has been a larger discussion of district and principal accountability.

Believing That a "Meteor" or Some New Accountability System Will Destroy the Educational Status Quo

John Thompson | Posted 02.18.2012 | Home
John Thompson

As the tenth anniversary of No Child Left Behind approaches, the obvious question about bubble-in mania is being asked by Mark Schneider in "Has the Accountability Movement Run Its Course?"

Should Schools Alone Be Held Accountable For Student Achievement?

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.31.2012 | Home

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. What if schools didn't have to work alone to improve student achievem...

In First Round, 11 States Look To Dump No Child Left Behind

Posted 01.15.2012 | Home

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that 11 states have formally submitted requests for waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Be...

NCLB Waivers Should Not Be Unconditional: New Accountability Strategy Needed

Gary M. Ratner | Posted 10.25.2011 | Home
Gary M. Ratner

What is desperately needed is a new accountability strategy -- not one, like NCLB, that continues to demand that schools dramatically raise student achievement and then abandons them to flail on their own.

Joy Resmovits

Walker Pushes For New Schools Accountability Model

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.10.2011 | Home

After slashing education funding and reducing teachers' collective bargaining rights earlier this year, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced his ...

How Can President Obama, Diane Ravitch, and Paul Tough All Be Right on Education?

Bill Tucker | Posted 09.07.2011 | Home
Bill Tucker

If you factor in where students start, Bruce Randolph is doing an exceptional job. And, while Tough is right that students deserve better, Bruce Randolph appears to be part of the solution, not the problem.

A New Approach to Holding Charter Schools Accountable

Seth Andrew | Posted 06.04.2011 | New York
Seth Andrew

On paper, Harlem Day Charter School should be a resounding success. It spends more per pupil than most suburban schools. Class size is small. Yet student achievement is unacceptably low.

The Trouble with Accountability

Elizabeth Hampton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Elizabeth Hampton

In addition to deteriorating high academic standards, an obsession with accountability can have a negative impact on school culture and environment.

Playing Games with Data is Actually Playing with Students' Educations

John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
John Thompson

As Michelle Rhee takes her dog and pony show to Florida, another bastion of data-DRIVEN accountability, we should take note of the latest study of the misuse of data in the DC schools.

Blaming Teachers or Finding Solutions?

Meredith Ely | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meredith Ely

The rise in educational thought leaders challenging the status quo is a pivotal step toward bringing low-income schools the teachers they need.

The (Other) Palm Beach Story: Feds & States Tinkering with Education Get Unplanned Results

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Brian Ross

WARNING: Severe Reality Curve! This cautionary tale may be unsuitable for the Obama Administration's Department of Education and state legislatures en...

Thriving Charter Schools Need Fairness, Not Favors

James Merriman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
James Merriman

Having become identified with charter schools, it is only human nature for the Department of Ed to be tempted to tilt the playing field in their favor. That would be a mistake.

The New York Times Bizarrely Attacks Teachers -- Why?

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Dan Brown

The editorial page in today's New York Times takes a bizarre pot shot at teachers. Teachers are demeaned by the Times as a destructive force when it comes to developing systems that work in schools.

Mass Teacher Layoffs in D.C. Amount To One Hell of a Power Play by Michelle Rhee

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dan Brown

Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.

David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Dan Brown

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

Leave Bad Schools Behind

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Tom Vander Ark

A 'good school' goal requires a serious accountability system, a system that differentiates between 'chronic failure' and 'room for improvement'