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EDGAR and the Two-Point Conversion

Robert E. Slavin | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics
Robert E. Slavin

Once upon a time, there was a football player named EDGAR. His team was in the state championship. It was the fourth quarter, and they were down by ...

How High Schools Win the Gold Medal in Academic Performance

Shane J. Lopez, Ph.D. | Posted 05.17.2013 | Good News
Shane J. Lopez, Ph.D.

By Tim Hodges and Shane J. Lopez U.S. News & World Report recently teamed up with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) -- a behavioral and soc...

Lessons from Innovators: eMINTS

Robert E. Slavin | Posted 05.14.2013 | Impact
Robert E. Slavin

The process of moving an educational innovation from a good idea to widespread effective implementation is far from straightforward, and no one has ...

Use Evidence to Improve Title I, Not to Threaten It

Robert E. Slavin | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics
Robert E. Slavin

Among many educators and policy makers, the idea of evidence-based reform is scary. They fear that rigorous evaluations will fail to support their f...

Better Understanding Parents in Poverty: Meeting Basic Needs First

Carol J. Carter | Posted 04.02.2013 | Impact
Carol J. Carter

Children in poverty often come from less-educated and involved parents, lack supervision, don't have equal learning experiences to their more affluent counterparts, and are more likely to drop out of high school or land in prison.

Taking a Charter Network to Scale: IDEA Public Schools

Robert E. Slavin | Posted 05.21.2013 | Impact
Robert E. Slavin

Today's post is based on a conversation between the Forum for Youth Investment and IDEA Public Schools' Chief Human Assets Officer Audrey Hooks. She describes IDEA's attempt to disseminate its guiding principles and knowledge, not just curriculum and materials.

U.S. Early Education Focus Can Close Achievement Gaps -- and Political Ones

Hernan Vera | Posted 05.19.2013 | Latino Voices
Hernan Vera

The truth is that economic development in every community depends upon the existence of high quality, affordable child care and early education.

Lessons Learned from Launching a Proven Educational Model in a City That Needs It: Citizen Schools Illinois

Bryce Bowman | Posted 02.03.2013 | Chicago
Bryce Bowman

Launching a new organization is never easy and there are many moving parts. In urban education, there are a lot of complex moving parts. Here are my greatest takeaways from the last nine months with Citizens Schools.

Study: Earlier Teacher Raises Connects To Better Student Performance

Posted 11.21.2012 | Home

A new study has found that frontloading teacher salaries —that is, awarding larger raises early in a teacher’s career and smaller raises later —...

Teachers Deserve This 'Thank You'

Eli Broad | Posted 01.15.2013 | Los Angeles
Eli Broad

A culture that recognizes and harnesses the value and achievements of great teachers may go a long way in encouraging top teachers to stick with a city like Newark that needs them, while encouraging talented teachers elsewhere to come aboard.

Pilot Districts Test Indiana's New Teacher Evaluation System

Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind. | April Toler | Posted 12.30.2012 | Home

BLOOMFIELD -- While most school districts are just starting to implement new teacher evaluation models, teachers at Bloomfield School District have al...

Report Cards Give Wisconsin Schools Look At Student Growth

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Erin Richards | Posted 12.29.2012 | Home

No matter how excellent the teaching force at ALBA School on Milwaukee's south side, third-graders might never score well in reading on the state stan...

Pennsylvania Teacher Evaluations Will Be Tied To Schools' Test Scores

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Eleanor Chute | Posted 12.29.2012 | Home

When the new statewide teacher evaluation system takes effect next fall, teachers will be judged not only on how they do in their own classrooms but o...

Study Examines Impact Principals Have On Student Achievement

Posted 10.24.2012 | Home

It's indisputable that great teachers lead to successful students, as the presidential candidates have touted, but what about students' connection to ...

Saving Education--and the Planet

Lisa Bennett | Posted 11.20.2012 | Home
Lisa Bennett

With mounting pressures on schools today, the suggestion that teachers should also be preparing students to address our growing ecological crises might seem ridiculous at best. But what if doing so could boost student achievement?

Collaboration, Communication, Accountability, and Equity: The Key to Parental Engagement

Anne Stafford | Posted 10.13.2012 | Home
Anne Stafford

The most commonly used word in education when it comes to parental involvement is partnership. Often the education world tries to reach out to parents to develop a "partnership" that falls short of its definition.

Getting Ready for Online Assessment

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.29.2012 | Home
Tom Vander Ark

Online assessment will power the future of customized learning -- the best chance we have to dramatically boost achievement levels.

High Stakes Testing: Who's Cheating Whom?

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 05.28.2012 | Home
Dennis Van Roekel

Let's get back to the core purpose of public education -- ensuring students have access to a great education that prepares them for lifelong learning and success -- and leave the pressure cooker for pot roasts.

An Education Success in Harlem

Kevin P. Chavous | Posted 05.27.2012 | Home
Kevin P. Chavous

The model for each student varies on their needs, and parents are encouraged to be active participants in their child's education. This program is determined to be the change in New York City. What's not to love?

Memphis' New Teacher Evaluation System Adopted From Controversial D.C. Program

| Sarah Garland | Posted 02.09.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the third in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comme...

How Digital Learning Will Benefit Low Income Students

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 02.27.2012 | Home
Tom Vander Ark

Digital learning won't close the achievement gap, but it will lift the floor. More students will be more academically successful. Five years from now, a higher percentage of students will soon graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

State 'Irrationally' Underfunds Schools By Billions, Judge Rules

Posted 02.11.2012 | Home

Supporters of an education lawsuit against the state of Colorado celebrated this weekend after a district judge ruled that the state severely underfun...

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...

The Global Search for Education: A Look at a Finnish School

C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.01.2012 | Home
C. M. Rubin

If you thought you knew everything about the remarkable transformation of Finland's schools from mediocre to one of the top performing school systems in the world, think again.

Faulty Data Wrongly Placed School Among Worst In State

Posted 08.29.2012 | Home

A Delaware middle school will no longer receive hundreds of thousands in additional funding after it was mistakenly named one of the worst schools in ...