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School & District Management
New Project Details Low-Income Schools' Avenues to Success
A team of visitors descends on a school, armed with video cameras, tape recorders, and piles of interview questions, to find out what the school did to succeed and then posts the case studies on a Web portal.
Education Funding
Opinion
NEEDED: Federal Action for Fair Funding of High-Poverty Schools
Federal education-funding requirements exacerbate existing inequality in education, say John Podesta and Cynthia G. Brown.
Federal
Opinion
A New National Strategy for Improving Teaching in High-Need Schools
James B. Hunt Jr. and Thomas H. Kean outline the "fellowship" approach to teacher training.
School & District Management
Education Struggles: One Iraqi Family's Story
Education Week reporter Mary Ann Zehr, who posts frequently on her Learning the Language blog, just returned from a one-month stint in the Middle East. She wrote a number of fascinating dispatches while she was there, and her latest "Back in School, Iraqi Teen Lacks Motivation to Study" might be of particular interest to readers of this blog.
School & District Management
'The Teacher Can't Teach'
Education Week's Lesli Maxwell has written a number of heartbreaking, and sometimes inspiring, stories about schools in New Orleans this year, and her latest, 'The Hurricane Messed a Lot of Us Up,' is no exception.
School & District Management
MM Special: Q&A with the Atlantic Street Center
The Seattle-based nonprofit aims to help low-income families raise healthy, successful, academically eager children through a variety of services such as tutoring, study skills instruction, and cultural awareness workshops.
School & District Management
Motivating Principals
An AP story about a recent study by the Baltimore-based nonprofit organization Advocates for Children and Youth links low performing schools with high principal turnover rates. The group, which examined schools in or near Baltimore, calls for incentives to keep principals in low achieving schools for longer periods of time with the hope that more experienced principals will improve academic performance, says the article.
School & District Management
Bored Perhaps, But Learning
I’ve already heard more than a few times the dreaded words of a child in the midst of summer break: “I’m bored.” Or my daughter’s version: “I’m Sooooo bored!” Of course the complaint is not an accurate reflection of summer vacation for many middle- and upper-income children, who have a wealth of activities lined up to keep them busy until the next school bell.
School & District Management
Chatting About Helping African-American Boys
I frequently go back and read the transcripts from the chats we run on edweek.org. The questions alone highlight how desperately educators are seeking answers to their problems. The answers from our featured guests try to point people in the right direction toward solving those problems.
School & District Management
Sad About Science
"My general impression is one of extreme disappointment," Gerald Wheeler of the National Science Teachers Association told Education Week after the release this month of a federal study showing that students in urban schools struggled with relatively basic tasks in a test of their science skills. "I can't imagine these kids surviving in a scientifically literate society."
Curriculum
Stores Open to Provide Supplies for Teachers in Low-Income Schools
With back-to-school sales just around the corner, many parents and teachers are picking up fresh supplies: crisp new notebooks, packs of pencils, unworn erasers, and other necessities. But in schools serving low-income communities, students often show up without the needed materials.
Federal
Salary Totals Found Lower in Poor Schools
Despite the belief that high-poverty schools should receive the most resources, many districts spend less, on average, on the teachers at such schools than they do at schools serving more affluent populations.
Equity & Diversity
Senate Spending Bill Would Bolster Title I 'Targeting' to Poor Schools
The Senate, in a break from its past stance, agreed last week to distribute a portion of Title I aid under a formula that seeks to better target money to high-poverty school districts.
Education Funding
Disney Plans Initiative To Aid Poor Schools, Staff Development
The Walt Disney Co. planned to play fairy godmother to schools and their teachers around the nation this week, with the unveiling of a multimillion-dollar education initiative.
