This new Education Sector report profiles Providence, Rhode Island (U.S.), an aging mill town with a long history of antagonistic school union-district relations–now the site for a surprising new collaborative approach to turning around low-performing schools.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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January 7, 2011
This book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools, with a key argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Author Charles Payne notes that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems.
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January 3, 2011
With a new Congress set to begin, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan authors this Washington Post piece on the potential for bipartisan education reform, including a rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
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January 3, 2011
San Francisco school board member Rachel Norton counts down the top 10 education stories of 2000-10 in this SFGate piece, including waiting for the technology revolution, curriculum wars, charter schools, mayoral control, U.S. legislation (No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top), and the rebuilding of New Orleans schools following Hurricane Katrina.
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January 3, 2011
In this Edublogs entry, Larry Ferlazzo shares predications for education for 2011–his own and well as those submitted by his readers. Ferlazzo discusses the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, mayoral control, the so-called “parent trigger,” Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst, Teaching 2030, and more.
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December 21, 2010
The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet separates fact from fiction about Florida’s school reforms via a conversation with Professor Sherman Dorn of the University of South Florida, who has spent years researching and writing about public education in the Sunshine State.
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December 20, 2010
Veteran high-school English teacher Larry Strauss discusses the missing piece in U.S. education reform–trust–in this Huffington Post piece.
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December 16, 2010
With 24 countries participating in the 2010 Eurydice reporting exercise on New Skills for New Jobs, the consultation provided a unique opportunity to gather information on recent national developments in skills forecasting and to assess how this information is channelled into education and training provision. Among the main findings:
