Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that
dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.
ED in ’08 may also have contributed to Obama's decision to press forward with
national standards and performance pay for teachers once he was in office... Teacher effectiveness and
national standards [would] come to
dominate the Obama
education agenda and the
education debate for the next four years.