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It's not all Duncan and Gates out there in school reform land. Last week the Ford Foundation announced a $100M initiative to revamp secondary education in seven cities including Chicago (LATimes). The Ford Initiative is relatively big and challenges Race To The Top and NCLB in several regards...
RttT architects, who aregullible enough to believe that chartersface the same challenges as neighborhood schools and can thus leadsystemic turnaroundefforts, should askwhat the California Charter School Association knows about this issue that they do not.The Association...
You've probably already heard a lot of buzz about Precious, the new movie about an extremely overweight and illiterate teenager who is expelled from school when the news of her second pregnancy comes out. It opened this weekend...
It's every liberal educator's worst fear come true: Sacramento Mayor (and charter school operator) Kevin Johnson and hard-charging DC public schools chief Michelle Rhee are engaged, making them what has to be the biggest education power couple of the moment (not counting Randi Weingarten and Joel...
What if states and districts returned the favor and came up with their own "reverse" version of the Race To The Top? Fair's fair...
School lunch risk eyed after E. coli outbreak APRep. George Miller, California Democrat, is worried about a recent outbreak that killed at least two people and sickened about two dozen others in 11 states...
After fretting over the most troubled students who undercut the opportunities of his lower-performing kids in his Study Skills classes, "Coach" may have stumbled across the solution, "why not send the knuckleheads to the rich schools...
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Here's Duncan's media schedule for the week. Plan your days around it. Let it be your guide. It is the center of the education universe. There is nothing about it that is stale, empty, or without news value...
First the Carnegie Foundation picked a new president Tony Bryk (instead of Linda Darling Hammond). Then the foundation came up with a whole new set of priorities (something about community colleges, I think)...
SETTING THE SCENE Speaking in front of a blue backdrop with words "Race to the Top" scrawled in white letters, Obama spoketo about 250 students as well as hundreds of parents, teachers, staff and local...
The well-regarded Karen Cator is coming in from Apple to head the USDE's ed tech efforts. We'll try not to hold her previous place of employment against her. (Hey, at least she's not from Google.) And it's been too long since there was some good edtech coming out of the USDE...
Education Department said Massachusetts did not break stimulus rules AP The...
Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars APObama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are poised to change a law to boost their state's chances at $5 billion in education grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.Obama Puts Spotlight on Education Grants NYT...
