Los Angeles Area Schools, Teachers Accused Of Cheating
Student test scores from two Los Angeles-area schools have been thrown out based on evidence of cheating by teachers. Three teachers at Short Avenue Elementary are accused of correcting answers on...
View ArticleArne Duncan hops on a bus to address rust belt school districts
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan kicked off his three-day Great Lakes bus tour here, in a city he calls a national model for school reform. “It wasn’t a coincidence that we...
View ArticleBeverly Hall, former Atlanta schools superintendent, ‘can’t accept’ culture...
Now, APS is faced with the report’s aftermath. Removing and replacing implicated teachers could take the district months to years, and paying those currently on leave as a result of the scandal is...
View ArticleHigh-Achieving Students Often Lose Momentum, Fordham Study Shows
In the eyes of Michael Petrilli, education discussions and policies based on the disparity in performance between subgroups of U.S. students — known as the achievement gap — leave some honors students...
View ArticleArne Duncan: ‘we’ve been very complacent’
With President Barack Obama poised to announce alternatives to states’ compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act on Friday, the role of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be under scrutiny....
View ArticleWill Arne duncan’s education reforms get left behind?
CLEVELAND — On a recent Wednesday afternoon in the auditorium of Eastern Technical High School, where 1,000 people had come to hear him speak, Arne Duncan was stumped. “What will the plan be in three...
View ArticleStudent test scores should be used to rate teachers in teams: study
WASHINGTON — Standardized tests should rank students by percentile and rate teachers in teams, according to a new policy brief by Derek Neal, an economics professor at the University of Chicago. “I’m...
View ArticleClass size fight: debate looms during a year of overcrowding
NEW YORK — Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second language, with a reading exercise. Classes began on...
View ArticleJohn F. Kennedy High School Issues Illegal IDs To Students Based On...
An Orange County, Calif., high school has come under fire from state education officials after they issued student ID cards that are color-coded based on their standardized tests scores, the Orange...
View ArticleAtlanta public schools: cheating teachers face first punishments
About a dozen Atlanta educators implicated in the district’s cheating scandal find out Thursday whether Georgia education officials will strip them of their teaching certificates, the Atlanta Journal...
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