The Waiver Wire: The 11th (Hour) Waiver
Flickr photo by ToniVC Now that the waiver details have been revealed by the Department of Education and states are beginning to plan their applications, I think it’s worth spending the next few...
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Los Angeles redux. The performance data of 18,000 New York City public school teachers is now in the public’s hands, and SchoolBook has been updating here, where they also plan to publish all of the...
View ArticleQuick Hits (3.1.12)
Amaze and Mystify Your Friends. Did you know there are now fewer school districts, but more schools, than there were a decade ago? Or that the share of total revenues for public elementary and...
View ArticleWhat More Time Can (and Can’t) Do for School Turnarounds
What's important to know about ELT? Click image to enlarge. Today Education Sector releases Off the Clock: What More Time Can (and Can’t) Do for School Turnarounds. You may recall, in 2007 ES analyst...
View ArticleIt Takes A Community To Sustain ELT Reforms
This is a guest post, written by Lucy Friedman, president of TASC (The After-School Corporation). No one has done more than the Obama administration to stimulate schools and communities to expand the...
View ArticleQuick Hits (5.21.12)
Why hide data? For the first time, Jay Matthews includes a sampling of private schools in his annual High School Challenge Index. But he questions why many schools are reluctant to participate. As...
View ArticleSharing the Heavy Lift on School Improvement
This guest blog post was written by Christopher Caruso, Senior Vice President for ExpandED Schools, TASC. Contact him at ccaruso@tascorp.org Christopher Caruso, Senior Vice President for ExpandED...
View ArticleMore Does Not (Necessarily) Mean Better
On Monday, five states announced that they would add at least 300 hours of learning time to some schools in the fall of 2013. These states—Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee—...
View ArticleQuick Hits (2.4.13)
Success with the Common Core. Critics of the Common Core State Standards have ramped up efforts against the new educational framework, particularly in Colorado, Idaho, and Indiana, for a variety of...
View ArticleQuick Hits (4.16.13)
What’s in a name? Plenty. Or, why your child’s kindergarten class has three kids named Ava and two named Olivia. (Boston Globe) A bid toward success. Sarah Hanson, 19, has auctioned off 10 percent of...
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