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Business Leaders Asked to Sell the Common Core to the Public

Skinner sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 5, Clicks: 0)
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Peter DeWitt -- The ultimate goal of schools is to make sure that students are prepared for college or the workforce when they graduate. School personnel and business leaders are the bookends of this process for students. Unfortunately, the conversation that took place between Commissioner King and the business leaders was about selling the Common Core State Standards, accountability and high stakes testing. They missed a valuable opportunity to collaborate with schools.

1 comments | Tags: peter dewitt common core state standards controversy john king new york | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Spurred By Lawsuit, Fla. Tweaks Teacher-Evaluation Requirements

Skinner sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 6, Clicks: 0)
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that, among other things, makes a significant change to the state's teacher-evaluation system, a move seemingly prompted by a National Education Association lawsuit. The NEA lawsuit, filed in April, stated that districts, with state approval, were evaluating teachers based on the results of students they hadn't taught or in subjects they don't instruct.

2 comments | Tags: stephen sawchuk florida teacher evaluations national education association | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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Common Core: Setting the Record Straight

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 5, Clicks: 0)
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Richard Laine & Chris Minnich -- This country was not built by people with low expectations. It was built by great leaders in communities and states who stepped up, sometimes individually and sometimes together, to achieve great things. It was built by responding to the challenges at hand and creating solutions for future generations.

1 comments | Tags: richard laine chris minnich common core state standards controversy | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Schools' effort to shift to Common Core faces a difficult test

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 22, Clicks: 1)
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The move toward standards that teach students to be analytical encounters a bipartisan backlash.

1 comments | Tags: common core state standards controversy timothy shanahan randi weingarten tech readiness | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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New teacher training study decries California universities

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 6, Clicks: 1)
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A controversial policy group singles out teacher training programs at UCLA and Loyola Marymount as hardly worth attending. But the schools say the report is flawed.

1 comments | Tags: school reform pre-service teachers colleges of education national council on teacher quality | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Will competition in education kill our sense of community?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 5, Clicks: 1)
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Valerie Strauss -- If the choice and competition campaign succeeds, any sense of community we could hope to have will be sold down the river, American University's education dean says.

1 comments | Tags: valerie strauss sarah irvin belson leslie fenwick american university community involvement | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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University programs that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in first-ever ratings

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 24, Clicks: 1)
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The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever ranking that immediately touched off a firestorm. Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based advocacy group, the rankings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations.

2 comments | Tags: school reform pre-service teachers colleges of education national council on teacher quality | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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The Common Core’s fundamental trouble

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 6, Clicks: 1)
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Valerie Strauss -- There’s a lot being said and written about the Common Core State Standards these days, not all of it accurate. Here’s a smart piece about the initiative by the editors of Rethinking Schools, a nonprofit organization that publishes a magazine of the same name that balances classroom practice and educational theory, while also addressing key policy issues.

2 comments | Tags: valerie strauss common core state standards controversy rethinking schools no child left behind act | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Tech academy proposed to reach high school dropouts

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 5, Clicks: 1)
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At-risk youths in Tulsa could soon have a new path to high school credentials and job skills that would prepare them for the job market immediately. Through a proposed partnership between Tulsa Technology Center and Tulsa Public Schools, the Tulsa Tech Career Academy would allow high school students to attend school full time on a career tech campus.

1 comments | Tags: tulsa technology center tulsa public schools tulsa tech career academy career readiness | Topic: Vocational/Technical BAD >_<

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OU finds online material to replace costly textbooks

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 7, Clicks: 1)
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Faced with evidence that 70 percent of University of Oklahoma students are not buying textbooks because of their high costs, school officials are trying to push more course materials online.

2 comments | Tags: electronic textbooks open educational resources open access university of oklahoma digital textbooks | Topic: Higher Education BAD >_<

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Can Digital Games Boost Students’ Test Scores?

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.kqed.org (Views: 8, Clicks: 2)
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In the past few years, educators have been closely watching the evolution of digital games used for learning. With a huge influx of products — whether they’re individual apps for tablets or an entire suite of software — the market is already big and continues to grow, with entire game-based schools cropping up across the country.

0 comments | Tags: digital age digital tablets digital games student achievement | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Asian Boys Beat American Boys at Behavior

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 9, Clicks: 2)
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Ross Brenneman -- A new study released by the University of Pittsburgh contrasts the behavior of school boys in the United States with those from China, South Korea, and Taiwan. While teachers in each country but China thought of boys as more disruptive than girls, tests showed that the only real differences existed in the United States.

0 comments | Tags: university of pittsburgh ross brenneman classroom behavior teacher involvement | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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The Faulty Logic of the ‘Math Wars’

nitajo sumitted ago via http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com (Views: 10, Clicks: 4)
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ALICE CRARY and W. STEPHEN WILSON -- The “reform” strategy for teaching math that has taken American schools by storm lacks a claim to the progressive values that are its chief selling point.

2 comments | Tags: alice crary w. stephen wilson johns hopkins university math curriculum math | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Sequester cuts slam Tulsa schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 12, Clicks: 3)
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Editorial -- For Tulsa Public Schools, the funding hits just keep on coming. Thanks to the Great Recession and years of cuts in the state personal income tax by the Legislature and governor, the Tulsa district's state appropriation is more than $20 million less that it was five years ago.

1 comments | Tags: school funding tulsa public schools impact aid sequestration title 1 | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Florida Teacher Lawsuit Could Spread to Other States

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.governing.com (Views: 12, Clicks: 4)
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The lawsuit filed by seven Florida teachers last month, challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new teacher evaluation system, was touted as the first of its kind, but it’s unlikely to be the last.

1 comments | Tags: florida teacher evaluations national education association florida comprehensive assessment test | Topic: Teaching Jobs BAD >_<

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