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January 24, 2008
January 24, 2008
Campaign Drama, Classroom Lessons
Education Week, January 23, 2008
The hoopla surrounding the New Hampshire presidential primaries earlier this month stirred some students at Timberlane High School to watch the candidates’ debates…
Mike Feinberg
Forbes, January 23, 2008
In 1994, Dave Levin and I started KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) with 50 students in Houston after completing our two-year commitment to Teach for America.
Mold-Breaking Schools Can Reach Every Student
Washington Post, D.C., January 24, 2008
I don't understand why you continue to ignore the high dropout rates of the high schools you highlight as "breaking the mold" ["High Schools That Break the Mold," Jan. 10].
Middle School Teachers Tout Single-Gender Classes
Athens Banner-Herald, Georgia, January 24, 2008
Winder-Barrow Middle School students don't yet have standardized test scores to prove whether a pair of single-gender classes is helping them learn, but teachers, students and parents say the experiment is a success.
Ohio Education Program Targets At-Risk High School Freshmen
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio, January 24, 2008
The program is unique because it specifically targets freshmen boys who have at least one of the four risk factors for dropouts.
The Wake-Me-Up-When-Class-is-Over Governor
National Review Online, January 24, 2008
Patrick's chief target is charter schools, which the unions oppose because charters offer parents an alternative to underperforming district schools.
Chicago Public Schools To Fire Hundreds At 8 Under-Performing Schools
Chicago Tribune, Illinois, January 24, 2008
In a dramatic proposal to reform eight chronically under-performing schools, Chicago Public Schools could fire hundreds of teachers and their principals next fall, replacing them with better-trained or better-performing educators, school officials said.
School Helps Dropouts Stay On Path To Graduate
San Diego Union Tribune, California, January 24, 2008
Each student crammed into the office suite on Bay Boulevard in Chula Vista ended up there because something went wrong.
Senate Should Meet Deadline And Fix Law Allowing Boys School
New Journal, Delaware, January 24, 2008
Members are about to recess until mid-March, but still have important business to do. Among the chief concerns is passage of a bill that would amend Delaware's charter school law to allow single-sex schools.
Charter Schools Targeted
Albany Times Union, New York, January 24, 2008
Predictably, charter school opponents, including Fred LeBrun, tried to make this out to be an ironic example of charter schools trying to escape accountability and oversight. They couldn't be more wrong.
