Vol. 27, Issue 06
FRONT PAGE
For some, recently released NAEP results show that the sustained local, state, and federal efforts to improve instruction in reading and mathematics are paying off.
Congress is poised to slash spending on the main federal program aiding colleges of teacher education.
The events of the past few weeks in Jena, La., offer tough lessons for principals and other administrators who must grapple with racial tensions in their schools.
Across the nation, states and districts are starting to crack open the traditional salary schedule.
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News in Brief
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Report Roundup
News in Brief
Report Roundup
Correction
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Today’s school district leaders overwhelmingly have positive relationships with their school boards, tend to be satisfied in their jobs, and think of themselves as effective, according to a survey.
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Deborah Bial, the founder and president of the Posse Foundation, was named last week as one of this year’s 24 MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The group didn’t call for the expulsion of the SAT, but it’s clear the 81-year-old exam would not be voted “most popular” either.
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Law & Courts
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For American and Chinese principals, visiting their counterparts in the other country is “like learning a foreign language.”
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When A Nation at Risk came out in 1983, the NEA and other notable education players rushed to criticize the report. Not so Albert Shanker.
Teach for America aims to have more than 800 alumni leading their own schools or districts by 2010, as part of a school leadership initiative launched last year.
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More than 30 years’ worth of studies of elementary-level peer-tutoring programs suggests that both the tutor and the tutee learn better when they teach each other.
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A measure intended to protect students' religious expression has sent hundreds of districts scrambling to adopt customized policies.
State Journal
Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell is proposing to bring all school employees under one insurance plan, rather than have individual school districts continue to provide their own.
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Federal File
Some lawmakers are crafting legislation that would promote closer ties between pre-K and the No Child Left Behind Act.
As lawmakers continued backroom negotiations, President Bush urged them to move the bill along.
PAGE 27 - In Perspective
State and district leaders are tackling dilemmas school by school as they struggle to rebuild and repair campus buildings in New Orleans.
PAGE 31 - Commentary
Both movements could be more than just "reform blips," Norm Fruchter writes.
Terry Roberts urges lawmakers to defend the democratic essence of public education.
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Letters
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Letters
PAGE 40 - Commentary
The "military way" of education and training holds considerable promise, Hugh B. Price argues.
