Testing: Threat or menace?
Student achievement, as measured by test scores, is meaningless, writes Karl Wheatley, a Cleveland State education professor in a Plain Dealer op-ed. . . . most of what matters in life is simply not on...
View ArticleSaving Cleveland
In a Reason series on saving Cleveland, Drew Carey focuses on fixing the schools. Sorry for yesterday’s site crash, faithful readers. I think the problem is fixed.
View ArticleSuccess for black students
Forty years after her sophomore year at Cleveland’s virtually all-black John F. Kennedy High, Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks got together with her former 10th-grade English teacher, Stuart...
View ArticleD.C. spends $29,409 per pupil
In 2009-10, Washington D.C. public schools spent $29,409 per student, according to the Census Bureau, points out Andrew Coulson at Cato @ Liberty. “This spending figure is about triple what the DC...
View ArticleThe pension squeeze
Pension reform is essential — and possible– argues a new Fordham report, The Big Squeeze: Retirement Costs and School District Budgets. Philadelphia schools could spend as much as $2,361 per pupil by...
View ArticleUrban progress? Scores are very low
Some big-city districts are making progress, according to the new NAEP TUDA (Trial Urban District Assessments) results released by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Center...
View Article16% of urban teachers are ‘chronically absent’
Teachers in the nation’s 40 largest school districts came to school 94 percent of the time in the 2012-2013 school year, according to the report by the National Council on Teacher Quality. On average,...
View ArticleCan schools teach social skills?
Kindergarten teachers’ assessment of children’s “social competence” — cooperation, helpfulness, “understanding feelings” — predicted their future education, employment and arrest records, according to...
View ArticleCan districts and charters get along?
Is Detente Possible? between school districts and their charters, asks Fordham. The report looks at district-charter collaboration in Boston, Cleveland, Denver, the District of Columbia and Houston....
View ArticleSocial-emotional learning gains, but what is it?
Third-grader Madison Reid leads a discussion on listening at a Cleveland elementary school. Photo: Dustin Franz/Education Week Social-emotional learning is catching on across the country, reports...
View ArticleMost parents say summer camp will be safe
Fifty-seven percent of parents think summer camp will be safe for their children, while 37 percent are not sure, writes Jamie Ballard on YouGov. Cleveland Public Schools will offer two four-week summer...
View ArticleD.C. schools are fastest improving
You don’t hear a lot of good news about public schools in Detroit or Cleveland, but they rank among the fastest-improving urban school districts, according to a study by the Council of the Great City...
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