A story in this issue’s In Perspective section, which was sent to the printer early, gives the incorrect year for data on teacher turnover compiled by researcher Richard M. Ingersoll. The data are from 2000-01.
Charter Schools of the Year The Washington-based Center for Education Reform recently named 53 schools as its National Charter Schools of the Year. The schools were evaluated on the criteria of achievement, planning and execution, satisfaction, and policies and programs. The winners are:
July 2007 8-10—Teachers: 2007 Partners’ Symposium, sponsored by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, for educators, at the Sofitel Hotel Philadelphia. Contact: Emily Silberstein, (202) 429-2570; Web site: www.nctaf.org.
The program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, June 12, 2007
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Stacey M. Childress, above, says of the educational entrepreneurship course: "This isn't an education course that happens to be at the business school. It's an entrepreneurship course that happens to be focused on the education sector."
Teaching is one of the most stable and respected careers in China, but changes to the society and the education system are putting new pressures on teachers.
The Department of Education is seeking recommendations on developing a framework that states can use to evaluate their English-language-proficiency standards and tests.
Districts would be allowed to shift all of their money out of some federal programs to support efforts to improve disadvantaged students' academic achievement.
Common wisdom says as many as half of new teachers quit after five years. The half-dozen Education Week profiled starting out are still teaching, though only two are in needy schools.
Ten states have each received $10,000 grants from the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices to hold summits on early-childhood education.
With the plethora of reports now in circulation, productive discussion is hindered if there is insufficient attention paid to the distinctions among them.
Jon Baron is right in identifying a profession against which our standards in education could be measured, whether they be “evidence-based” practices or other features.
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