Chat Transcripts

Innovative Approaches to Labor Relations and Schools

October 28, 2005 Guests Linda Kaboolian and Don Raczka took questions and offered examples on innovative approaches to labor-management negotiations, from "thin contracts" to "interest-based bargaining".

NAEP Results Raise Questions About NCLB's Effectiveness

October 26, 2005 Guests Grover J. Whitehurst, Jack Jennings, and Kathleen Kennedy Manzo took questions on how educators and policymakers should interpret the recent NAEP reading and math achievement test results.

How to Eradicate Failed Schools: A Conversation With Chris Whittle

October 12, 2005 Chris Whittle, the chief executive officer of Edison Schools Inc., and the author of a new book, Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education, took questions on his ideas for improving public education.

Re-Creating Public Education in New Orleans

October 5, 2005 Paul T. Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, believes that in post-hurricane New Orleans, American school planners will be as close as they have ever come to a "green field" opportunity.

Encouraging Student Voice

September 28, 2005 Nelson Beaudoin, principal of Kennebunk High School in Maine and author of the forthcoming Elevating Student Voice, took your questions on giving students a greater say in their schools.

Can District Leaders Be Instructional Leaders?

September 22, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Today's chat explores the issues raised in Education Week's recently released report, Leading for Learning.

Embracing NCLB: One School's Experience

September 14, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

In part by embracing strict the No Child Left Behind Act, Rail Road Flat Elementary, an impoverished school in rural northern California, has become one of the highest-achieving schools in the state. In this chat, Railroad Flat teacher Randall Youngblood discussed the schools' approach to academics and classroom management.

The Ins and Outs of Virtual Schools

September 8, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Bruce Friend, vice president and chief operations officer at the Florida Virtual School and two students from the school took questions on the practice and value of virtual learning.

Hurricane Katrina: Effect on Schools and Students

September 7, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Education Week Assistant Managing Editor Robert Johnston and Stephen Brock from the National Association of School Psychologists took questions on how schools can help students displaced by the storm, how teachers and other education employees have been affected, and how states and districts in the region are responding to the crisis.

Advice for New Teachers

August 24, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Scott Mandel, author of The New-Teacher Toolbox: Proven Tips and Strategies for a Great First Year, and Lisa Vahey, director of the New Teachers Network, take questions on new teachers' needs and concerns.

Sports Done Right

August 10, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Karen Brown, director of the Maine Center for Sport and Coaching and overseer of Maine's Sports Done Right initiative takes questions on promoting healthy learning environments for young athletes.

Behavior and Discipline of Preschool Children

July 27, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

A Yale University Child Study Center report released in May 2005 found that prekindergarten children are being expelled from their classes for behavior problems at a higher rate than students in K-12 schools. In this chat, experts in the field answered questions on the study and on the broader topic of handling behavioral problems in preschoolers.

Growing Teachers

July 13, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Sara Rogers, head coordinator of the Urban Teacher Academy Program in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. answers questions on the formation and structure of UTAP, on the viability of grow-your-own teacher programs, and on other issues in teacher recruitment and development.

Chat Transcript: High School Reform

June 29, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Jim McPartland, principal research scientist, Talent Development Schools at Johns Hopkins University; and Albert Bichner, interim deputy chief academic officer for secondary education in the School District of Philadelphia, discuss efforts to restructure urban high schools, which are increasingly turning to outside groups—ranging from universities to for-profit educational companies—in search of reform options.

Chat Transcript: Life After High School: Preparing High School Students for Postsecondary Success

June 15, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

The Teaching Novelist: Fact and Fiction

June 8, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Chat Transcript: Students' Right to Free Speech

May 18, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Chat Transcript: Technology Counts 2005: Moving Technology Dollars in New Directions

May 11, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Chat Transcript: Learning the World

April 27, 2005 - Education Week (Web)

Chat Transcript:
Education Week/ERS Report on Salary and Wages

April 20, 2005 - Education Week (Web)