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• March 01, 2010
• 16:22

  In Ruined Haiti Schools, Educators See Opportunity

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 16:15

  'Strategic Data Project' Lands Grant

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $15 million to a new Harvard University program designed to help build the capacity of state and school district leaders to analyze and use data for improving student achievement.
• 16:14

  High Court to Hear Teacher's Case

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to take up an issue stemming from the case of a California teacher and her husband who were wrongfully accused of child abuse.
• 16:12

  Firing of Teachers at Rhode Island School Ignites Battle

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  No more than half the teachers at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island would be hired back under the controversial moved.
• 16:11

  Phila. Report Details Assaults on Students

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The Philadelphia school district has transferred some students involved in attacking Asian students at South Philadelphia High School to disciplinary programs or other schools.
• 16:02

  L.A. Board Gives Control of Schools Primarily to Teacher-Led Groups

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Los Angeles’ board of education has voted to reject a number of applications from charter school operators, choosing instead to hand control of nearly 30 schools to nonprofit educational groups.
• 15:49

  Hawaii Union Files Complaint Against Governor on Furloughs

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The union is filing a complaint against Gov. Linda Lingle, claiming that she didn’t fulfill a commitment to use the state’s savings to end school closures because of furloughs.
• 15:17

  Justice Department Opens Probe Of Mass. School's Use of Shocks

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether a Massachusetts special-needs school violates federal disability laws by disciplining students with electric-shock therapy.
• 15:06

  Nevada Lawmakers Remove Block to Eligibility for Race to Top Grants

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Nevada lawmakers have passed a bill lifting a roadblock to the state’s eligibility for competitive federal education grants.
• 14:56

  Colo. Middle School Questioned on Safety Following Shootings

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  As a Colorado math teacher was being hailed a hero for tackling a school shooter, there was growing evidence the school missed a chance to head off the attack.
• 14:45

  Lawsuit Filed Over Layoffs

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Unified School District and California last week, claiming thousands of teacher layoffs will deprive inner-city children of their right to an education.
• 14:44

  K.C. Board Schedules Closure Vote

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  The Kansas City, Mo., school board is scheduled to vote March 10 on a plan to close up to half the districts schools.

• 14:41

  New Jersey District Overhauls Network To Boost Access to Learning Tools

   » ‎ THE Journal
  Denville School District of Denville, NJ, is looking to boost its network capabilities and expand access to technology in its classrooms by overhauling its telecommunications infrastructure.

• 14:15

  Merit Pay: An Agreeable Fantasy

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  New Hampshire superintendent Wayne Gersen offers three "disagreeable facts" about paying for performance in public schools.
• 14:13

  Escaping the High School 'Twilight Zone'

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  To deal with the motivational decline of adolescents, write psychologists Joseph P. Allen and Claudia W. Allen, teachers have to understand the teenage brain.
• 14:08

  We Need a New Start for Head Start

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  In the wake of a negative study, Isabel V. Sawhill and Jon Baron argue for action that will “evolve” the program and improve its effectiveness.
• 13:52

  'Career Ladder' at Risk in Arizona

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  

• 13:35

  Teacher Travel Tip: Cuba

   » ‎ Edutopia
  Cut off from much of the non-Communist world for the last fifty years, the island's politics, commerce, and culture offer lessons to learn.

• 13:15

  College and Career Standards Catching On in States

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  A new report shows 31 states now have such standards, but many have yet to embrace matching “comprehensive” accountability systems.
• 10:25

  Schools, Families Struggling to Pay for AP Exams

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  About 800,000 high school seniors took at least one test last year in what the College Board calls one of the most expensive testing programs in the world to operate.
• 9:44

  The Proficiency Delusion

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  Letting states set the cut scores for tests used with "common-core standards" would repeat a bad mistake and set back reform, writes Mark Schneider.
• 9:30

  K-12 Cuts Loom Again as States' Fiscal Woes Continue

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  About half of the states expect to slash education spending in the coming fiscal year, prompting fears of layoffs, class-size hikes.
• 9:09

  Kansas Budget Problems Could Cause Fundamental Changes

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  
• 8:59

  Obama Seeks Money, Interventions to Stem Dropouts

   » ‎ Education Week American Education News Site of Record
  

• 4:14

  The Myths and Mechanics of Innovation

   » ‎ THE Journal
  Innovation is an abstraction to many of us, a word vaguely hinting at something new and good arising through inspired creativity, some invention born of "outside the box" thinking. But that perception--and the approach to innovation that it implies--is just one of the many reasons most of us fail at it.
• 3:53

  Was I Wrong on Obama?

   » ‎ THE Journal
  With his defunding of EETT, the new boss seems to many ed tech advocates to be just like the old boss.