Two news releases last week suggest to me that the American public misunderstands the link between education and the economy. Last Wednesday, I attended a presentation and panel discussion of the results of the Gallup organization’s 2010 survey of The Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
In his opening remarks, the CEO . . .
Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jerry Weast has announced that he will retire in June 2011, ending an eleven-year tenure at one of the nation’s largest and highest-performing school systems. Weast’s leadership at MCPS has helped raise student achievement, close achievement gaps, graduate students at rates higher than any other large school district in the nation, and develop and maintain quality relationships and communication with the school board and other stakeholders . . .
The list of second round winners in the U.S. Department of Education’s $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform grant competition was released this morning. Of the nineteen Phase Two finalists, nine states and the District of Columbia were selected to share the remaining $3.4 billion in program funds . . .
A new report offers advice and strategies for policymakers interested in putting migrant children on the path to success.
“Working with Migrant Students: A National Imperative for Head Start Students and Families,” describes the needs of these early childhood populations — the sons and daughters of farmworkers who move from state to state doing the seasonal work that puts . . .
Everywhere you turn these days there’s a debate about the role that quantifiable measures – most notably, test scores — should play in judging the effectiveness of teachers, and allowing them to keep their jobs and earn more money. In a number of school districts, such as the District of Columbia, top administrators have . . .
The competition was intense, but AED had a strong showing in the “Investing in Innovation” grant competition, partnering on two projects that were selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Education. One winning proposal will promote a promising literacy strategy across four states; the second seeks to transform middle schools by helping them . . .
Education Week hosted an online chat today on how to improve the educational performance of American Indian students. The guests were Keith Moore of the Bureau of Indian Education at the U.S. Dpeartment of the Interior (and a and a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe of South Dakota) and Leslie . . .
Congress approved a controversial measure that will provide $26 billion in aid to states, which is expected to save 330,000 teaching jobs. The bill made it through the House of Representatives this week in what was mostly a party-line vote, and President Obama quickly put his pen to it.
A recent . . .
President Obama is scheduled to appear in Texas today, where he will tout the need for the United States to raise its academic expectations and produce more college graduates.
His remarks come in the wake of a recent College Board report showing that the United States has slipped to 12th, among 36 nations, in . . .
Earlier this year, we at AED published a white paper that examined the often-daunting challenges that American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start teachers face in trying to take college classes and pick up new classroom credentials.
Laura Massey is on a one-woman mission to clear those obstacles.
Dr. Massey is the program . . .
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