Lynn Olson of
Education Week pointed out that one «striking feature of the award - winning designs is how many ideas they have in common.»
As
Education Week points out, «The video game was a strong distractor: Children on average spent more than 60 percent of their time on «breaks».»
Not exact matches
... Considering Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation last
week that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids in their opposition to his
education funding cuts, this mailer seemed particularly
pointed.
But shadow
education secretary Stephen Twigg
pointed out the reforms outlined today followed aborted attempts to replace GCSEs with CSEs and O - levels, the English Baccalaureate and, last
week, «I - levels».
The Democratic moves, including boycotting committee room votes on nominees last
week and a round - the - clock debate Monday night before Tuesday's confirmation of
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, reached a boiling
point during the debate over Sessions — which Democrats continued overnight.
At Monday's meeting of the state Board of Regents,
Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and her staff reiterated a
point they have advanced over the past
week — that bipartisan repeal legislation recently approved by the Democratic - controlled state Assembly could have the unintended result of generating more tests.
Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major
points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this
week.
In this
week's Press Pass, WBFO's Eileen Buckley and Buffalo News
Education reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss the sticking
points anticipated in future contract talks.
While this does not reveal any burning interest in science, at least he starts with a clean slate, enthusiasm and, as Science and
Education pointed out last
week, a sense of humour.
In last
week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based
Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology,
pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.
Their turnkey lifestyle change program for healthcare centers is a unique 12 -
week program with patient
education material, health assessment intake forms, power
point presentations and much more.
Case in
point: Last
week, I visited Vanderbilt University in order to chat about Letters to a Young
Education Reformer.
Stephen L. Gessner uses the
Education Week classifieds as a
point of departure for an analysis of what is wrong in American schooling («What the Want Ads Can Tell Us About the Educational Wars,» July 8, 1998).
Some additional journalists show up on this ranking: Valerie Strauss (more of an opinion blogger than a journalist at this
point); Greg Toppo of USA Today; and Steve Sawchuk of
Education Week.
In my
Education Week «Commentary,» I compared adaptive learning to their standard sales technique of finding a customer's price
point before pitching a particular piece of merchandise.
In a
pointed attack on the Michigan
Education Association, the Michigan legislature last
week cleared a bill that would set fines and penalties for local teachers who strike over contract disputes and limit the teachers» union's collective - bargaining clout.
However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party
education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last
week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and
pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.
In honor of American
Education Week, the White House's office of national service put an educational slant on its «
points of light» campaign.
The key
points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment:
education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20
weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal
Stephen Arons has brilliantly — and correctly —
pointed out the errors of the concept of value - neutral
education in his recent Commentary («The Myth of Value - Neutral Schooling,» Education Week, Nov.
education in his recent Commentary («The Myth of Value - Neutral Schooling,»
Education Week, Nov.
Education Week, Nov. 7, 1984).
This
week,
Education World talks with Jackson about how educators can use Turning Points 2000 to provide an exemplary experience in middle grades e
Education World talks with Jackson about how educators can use Turning
Points 2000 to provide an exemplary experience in middle grades
educationeducation.
New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps
Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of
Education, said the results
point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.
Last
week, Bellwether
Education Partners analyst (and Obama administration alumnus) Chad Aldeman
pointed out that I've changed my views on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act since 2011.
In predicting the effects of Proposition 203, a measure to dismantle bilingual
education that goes before Arizona voters next
week, both proponents and opponents have
pointed to a 1998 California law that had a similar intent.
Case in
point: last
week's news stories about the Department of
Education's enforcement of civil rights laws.
«If you select the right measures, you can provide teachers with an honest assessment of where they stand in their practice that, hopefully, will serve as the launching
point for their development,» Kane told
Education Week.
Pointing to a recent
Education Week article about Chicago school districts» plans to recruit teachers from overseas, he stressed that retired service members, most only in their 40s, are a «highly qualified» pool that can be tapped for such hard - to - fill positions.
The survey of 1014 school teachers by First
Point Research and Consulting — and commissioned by multinational
education publisher Pearson — also highlighted that during a regular working
week high school teachers spend, on average, nine hours a
week working outside standard school hours.
The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its
Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on
education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of
education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents
education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex
points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.
To better understand where the ed - tech pressure
points are for principals, the
Education Week Research Center conducted a nationally representative survey of 500 principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders.
As
pointed out on this
week's Dropout Nation Podcast on school turnarounds, student achievement data will drive how principals evaluate and assign teachers; it is already beginning to reshape how teachers instruct in classrooms and address the nation's
education crisis.
However, decades of school reform research «has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices,» as Mike Copland and Meredith Honig, University of Washington researchers,
point out in their recent
Education Week commentary, «Don't Cut Out the Center.»
«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal
point of major
education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew
education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes
Education Week's Andrew
Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.
At the midway
point of the federal Race to the Top program, the list of accomplishments for the 11 winning states and the District of Columbia is getting longer, but the challenges are getting more formidable as the time frame gets shorter, according to a progress report issued by the U.S. Department of
Education last
week.
On this
week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle explains why U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan was right to
point out some of the underlying reasons behind opposition to Common Core standards — and why we should also be unafraid to call out failed policies and practices that condemn 120 children an hour to poverty and prison.
A Department for
Education spokesperson
pointed Schools
Week to a comment by schools minister Nick Gibb in October that said matching teachers to roles was «ongoing» and that, once the process had concluded, the number of withdrawals and cost of the pilot would be released.
«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [
Education Week assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards, assessments and accountability... data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight
points in fourth grade Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in NAEP recorded history.
It seems that almost every
week there's some sort of news article or study
pointing out how much Americans don't know, soon followed by a cry for more civics
education in schools.
Krista Glazewski, an IU professor we interviewed for our story last
week,
points out blended learning has been introduced in small charter schools that don't necessarily serve the broad populations of students public
education must serve.
If Americans know
Education Secretary Arne Duncan for anything at this
point, it would be as that guy who claimed last
week that opposition to the Common Core national K - 12 educational standards sprang from «white suburban moms» who feared that tougher requirements would reveal their children to be as not «brilliant» as they thought.
Over the last few
weeks, school district superintendents,
education groups and newspaper editorial boards across the state have expressed their concerns,
pointing out what they perceive as numerous shortcomings in the measure, AB 375, authored by Joan Buchanan, a Bay Area Democrat.
An effort to develop a statewide school accountability system marks a turning
point in Wisconsin,
education experts said last
week as a public effort to design the system got under way.
Rich
points out not one Democrat in the GOP - controlled U.S. House voted last
week for a re-write of federal
education laws known as No Child Left Behind.
Data experts
Education Datalab published a blog this
week revealing the average
point scores of pupils from 2015 in popular non-GCSE qualifications compared with their GCSE scores.
A couple of
weeks ago Massie Ritsch, assistant communications and outreach
point man for
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left his job to take a similar position at Teach For America.
It's important to clarify a
point made earlier this
week by the Connecticut Council for
Education Reform (CCER).
Education Week says the data, while still under review, are consistent with other recent research
pointing to a «greening» trend in teaching over the past 20 years.
Writing for
Education Week, Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute called the writing «ripped from the talking
points of Common Core enthusiasts» and «an object lesson in the vapid triumphalism of Common Core boosters.
They
pointed out that California ranked 43rd in adjusted per - pupil expenditures for K - 12
education, according to a survey conducted by Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of
education, according to a survey conducted by
Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of
Education Week, with per - student spending of $ 9,417, which is $ 3,109 below the national average of $ 12,526.
(Stephen Sawchuk of
Education Week is required reading for a pointed warning about misuses of NAEP data by education advocates seeking to bolster their own po
Education Week is required reading for a
pointed warning about misuses of NAEP data by
education advocates seeking to bolster their own po
education advocates seeking to bolster their own positions.)