Sentences with phrase «education next story»

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

Not exact matches

A feature story in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, «The Softer Side of «No Excuses»: A View of KIPP Schools in Action,» takes readers inside KIPP schools to see what they are really like.

In «In the Wake of the Storm,» which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Harvard researcher Michael Henderson tells the story behind the passage of voucher legislation in Louisiana and identifies the election of Bobby Jindal, a popular governor committed to school choice, as the most critical factor.

The announcement rattled me, since I was just finishing up a feature story for Ed Next on Steiner's brilliant leadership in taking the moribund Empire State to the RTTT winner's circle in nine short months — the equivalent of turning on a dime in the education reform world.

(I found many of the same things in researching my stories on Catholic education for Education Next and the Thomas B. Fordham Foueducation for Education Next and the Thomas B. Fordham FouEducation Next and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.)

That's the subtitle of my new story in Education Next, about an experiment to take a successful religious school education model to the publiEducation Next, about an experiment to take a successful religious school education model to the publieducation model to the public sector.

As luck would have it, I came home to a copy of Mike Petrilli's new story for Education Next in my (Internet) mailbox: «All Together Now?

In the story I reported for Education Next in 2008, there is surely plenty of bluster from Mayor Mike and his former trust - busting chancellor Joel Klein — an image reinforced by a vivid cover illustration of the mayor, bedecked in shining armor with shield and sword, standing atop the city's refurbished Department of Education building — and there is no doubt that Bloomberg and Klein will have to eat a bit of crow.

To read the full story of the schools, please see «Catholic Ethos, Public Education,» by Peter Meyer, which appears in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next.

My blog silence these past few months has been due to my work on an education reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, andeducation reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, andEducation Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, and testing.

Thanks also to some shrewd lobbying on the part of Joe Williams of Democrats for Education Reform and Sunday bagel breakfasts hosted by NYSED Commissioner David Steiner, NYSUT agreed to go along (see my story in Education Next) with the changes.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach teducation policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach tEducation Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

When Education Next ran its Braveheart story on D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Beltway insiders scoffed, saying it was only a matter of time for her, just as it had been for the medieval Scottish nobleman.

Andy Smarick made a persuasive case for closure in a controversial story in Education Next last year: «The Turnaround Fallacy: Stop trying to fix failing schools.

Michael Petrilli wrote a story headlined «Disappearing Ink» for Education Next that is really worth your time.»

A just - released Education Next survey tells a different story.

In a feature story in the Summer 2014 issue of Education Next, Sarah Carr takes a close look at the world of online credit recovery courses.

A feature story by June Kronholz, «Teacher Home Visits,» which appears in the Summer 2016 issue of Education Next, explains the origins of the program and examines how it is working in Washington, D.C.

Ryan's book Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America was reviewed by Nathan Glazer for Education Next.

A feature story by June Kronholz in the Fall 2012 issue of Education Next looked at the Relay Graduate School of Education in its early years.

LA Unified board member Steve Zimmer, who just spent a weekend with Superintendent John Deasy talking education policy in Washington D.C., is getting another side of the story next week when he hosts Diane Ravitch — and actor Matt Damon — at Occidental College.

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We should all probably be reading CALmatters, a nonprofit site including education stories including this one about how California's next election will be a tug - of - war on education.

The Rocketship model, described in a recent Education Next cover story, calls for a longer school day, with students spending part of their time in a computer lab.

As we look ahead to next spring when students will take assessments that indicate whether they are on track to college and career readiness, we have seen some attention begin to focus on the role of higher education in the development and implementation of the standards (see New America's report, «Common Core Goes to College,» and a recent story from Hechinger Report).

Two of three schools operated by Rocketship rank among the 15 top - performing high - poverty schools in California, according to Education Next's cover story.

Capital One and Credit Canada Debt Solutions are kicking off Credit Education Week (which runs next week) with a Twitter - based contest that calls on Canadians to tell their own stories about how they triumphed by being frugal and reaped dividends by so doing, but learned the hard way that choosing the least expensive option and being «cheap» can come at a cost.

I will look forward to reading the book that tells the story of this next chapter for legal education.