Paul D. Houston offers a few thoughts on recent No Child Left Behind "studies."
July 23, 2007
Experts who have been closely monitoring Philadelphia’s experiment with outside management were divided on exactly what lessons it is yielding for educators.
June 28, 2007
A federal study of No Child Left Behind's school choice and supplemental education services provisions reveals mixed success in boosting student achievement.
June 28, 2007
State policies are outdated, both too inflexible and not rigorous enough, and often privilege the interests of teachers over those of students, the report says.
June 27, 2007
The superintendent of the state-run Recovery School District plans to open 21 more schools this fall and recruit and train teachers to ensure the schools are fully staffed.
June 27, 2007
Gaps in access to technology have not gone away and it is time to get them back onto policymakers’ radar screens, they say.
June 26, 2007
Wyoming legislators have nearly doubled the amount of aid for education in recent years.
June 20, 2007
Teacher turnover is estimated to have cost the nation more than $7 billion in the 2003-04 school year alone, asserts a report released today.
June 20, 2007
Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America’s high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.
June 19, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by a state high school athletic association over whether the group's rules restricting the recruitment of student-athletes conflict with the First Amendment free speech rights of its member schools.
January 8, 2007
As political dignitaries, family members, and friends said goodbye yesterday in Washington to the nation’s 38th president, others were trying to make sure that his words regarding special education were remembered and heeded.
January 3, 2007
A continuing dispute between the local teachers' union and school administrators has some education officials in Detroit worried that several alternative schools that opened in August to lure high school dropouts back to the classroom will be forced to close.
December 28, 2006
A new law in California will make it easier for low-performing schools to pay for repairs to their facilities.
December 28, 2006
A Los Angeles judge has thrown out a new state law that was to transfer substantial management authority of the sprawling city school system to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,
ruling that the legislation violates California's constitution.
December 22, 2006
Primedia Inc. has announced that it will classify Channel One, the for-profit news network for schools, as a discontinued operation in the fourth quarter of 2006. The move by the New York City-based media company can be construed as a first step by Primedia to rid itself of the network, which has struggled financially for years.
December 22, 2006
A producer of former Vice President Al Gore’s film about global warming has arranged to have free copies of it given to science teachers through a Web site, after a leading education group made a controversial decision not to distribute the documentary directly to its members.
December 21, 2006
Illicit drug use among teenagers, as well as alcohol use and smoking, showed a modest decrease from 2005 to 2006, according to a federally financed survey of nearly 48,500 public and private school students nationwide.
December 21, 2006
As federal funding meant to help the most disadvantaged students makes its way from the halls of the U.S. Capitol down to individual schools, the dollars intended to help poor and minority students are often diverted from the most needy students, concludes a report released today by the Education Trust.
December 20, 2006
Teachers employed by states rather than districts. Schools no longer run by districts but by independent contractors. Those are just a few of the proposals for overhauling the U.S. education system contained in a new report released here today by a prominent panel whose members include state and local superintendents, former governors and mayors, business executives, and prior U.S. secretaries of education and labor.
December 14, 2006
With the sponsorship of the Chicago school board, the actor and comedian Bill Cosby brought his sometimes-controversial message about parental responsibility to nearly 10,000 parents here on Dec. 6, urging them to take charge of their households.
December 7, 2006
The steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building were a magnet for hundreds of college and high school students who turned out on a cold and windy Monday to show their support for affirmative action and Brown v. Board of Education, which they believe will be damaged if the court strikes down two voluntary plans used to promote racial diversity in the Jefferson County, Ky., and Seattle schools.
December 4, 2006
When the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices take the bench on Dec. 4 to hear oral arguments about the use of race in assigning students to public schools, social science research might not be at the top of their minds.
December 1, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to decide a potentially significant case on student freedom of speech. The justices accepted an appeal by an Alaska school district in a case over whether it can discipline a student who displayed a pro-drug banner at a school-sponsored event.
December 1, 2006
How is the Internet helping to transform classroom learning? And how can education-technology companies better design their products for Web 2.0, the newer and faster-paced version of the Internet?
December 1, 2006
A prominent science educators’ group has drawn the wrath of supporters of “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s film about global warming, as well as some of its own members, by turning down a request that it distribute 50,000 free copies of the movie.
November 30, 2006
Elementary students in 10 city school systems struggled to perform simple investigations, interpret basic graphs and diagrams, and understand scientific classifications and relationships, concludes a first-ever report on the science skills of students in large urban districts released today.
November 15, 2006
The New York state education department erred in awarding Reading First grants to New York City and eight other school districts, and could not provide supporting evidence that any of the 66 districts participating in the program met all the requirements of the law, the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Education found in a report released today.
November 3, 2006
Despite the attention focused on poor and minority students by the No Child Left Behind Act, most states are doing a poor job of narrowing achievement gaps, concludes a “report card” released today by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
November 1, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether, and to what extent, parents who are not lawyers have a right to represent their child with disabilities, or themselves, in federal court under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
October 27, 2006
States and school districts spent almost $600 billion on building and renovating schools from 1995 to 2004, an amount that far exceeds earlier expectations, concludes a report released today. But the money, by and large, did not go to the disadvantaged districts that needed it the most, the authors say.
October 26, 2006
Public schools will now be able to educate boys and girls separately, if they choose, without fear of violating federal laws and regulations prohibiting sex discrimination.
October 24, 2006
The United States isn’t the only country struggling to attract and retain well-qualified teachers. But compensation strategies being tried in other industrialized nations could give policymakers here some new ways to address the issue, says a new report from the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank.
October 18, 2006
The U.S. departments of Education and Labor, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, should work with the video game industry to support the research and development of video games that promote learning, a report released today recommends.
October 17, 2006
At a summit on school safety sponsored by the federal government today, President Bush stressed the need for law-enforcement officers, educators, and others who work with children and youths across the country to exchange ideas on how to best prevent school violence. The purpose of the conference, the president said, “has got to be so we share information so we can save lives.”
October 10, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to take up the issue of when a teachers’ union may spend the money it collects in the form of agency fees from nonmembers on its political causes.
September 26, 2006
