January 30, 2008
Education Week, Vol. 27, Issue 21
Education
Letter to the Editor
When Flexibility Means That ‘Majors’ Start in 1st Grade
The idea of “universal design for learning,” originally focused on special education, seems to recognize that everybody learns differently because everybody is different.
Education
Letter to the Editor
We Do Little to Teach Emotional Management
Teaching students to have better emotional management would be the cheapest, quickest, and most effective way to address all the various problems individuals, schools, and society face.
Education
Letter to the Editor
U.S. History Schools Recall Teacher’s ‘Shining Decade’
We believed our program was on the cutting edge, and now see that it was substantially ahead of its time.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Quality Counts Indicators Show Strategies That Work
Preparing today’s students to participate in a global, knowledge-based economy is a demanding challenge.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Language-Learners and Culture-Based Teaching
Regardless of culturally accommodated instruction’s “effects,” educators should know and respect students’ cultures.
Education
Correction
Corrections
• An In Perspective story on students in New Orleans in the Jan. 16, 2008, issue of Education Week should have said that Janay Barconey had attended Eleanor McMain Secondary School since the 9th grade. The story also should have said that Ms. Barconey received a B in her chemistry course.
Education Funding
Federal File
Head Start Group Decries Renewal’s ‘Broken Promises’
Advocates say they've been “saddled” with loads of new requirements in the five-year reauthorization bill.
Education Funding
Foundation Aims to Further Jeb Bush’s Education Goals
The nonprofit organization will offer cash awards to as many as 100 teachers a year whose students show gains on state tests.
School Choice & Charters
Private Schools Catering to Foreign Students in Dubai
Alternatives are crucial when public schooling is closed to non-Arabs.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Cincinnati Schools ‘Cannot Afford to Stop the Reform Train Now’
The district must continue its efforts to transform its high schools, while simultaneously turning attention toward the large and persistent achievement gaps among younger students.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
The Power of Progressive Thinking
Mark Simon & Naomi Baden comment on Tom Mooney’s legacy in the teachers’ union movement.
Education
Letter to the Editor
‘Reading First’ Story Shows Limits of Using Isolated Data
We cannot judge the efficacy of a program on the basis of the scores of 14 children on one test.
School & District Management
Opinion
Building a Knowledge Base for Educational Leadership
Richard F. Elmore explains how to make the content and pedagogy of leadership-preparation programs match the aspirations of reformers.
Education
State of the States
South Dakota
Gov. Rounds asked legislators to spend $3 million on classroom laptop computers for 4,600 students and 400 teachers in the next school year, under an existing program.
Education
State of the States
Rhode Island
Faced with budget pressures and and opposed to raising taxes, Gov. Carcieri called for a comprehensive review of school funding.
Education
State of the States
New Hampshire
Gov. Lynch used his State of the State speech to renew his call for a constitutional amendment that would let the state target more money to poorer districts.
Education
State of the States
Mississippi
Education remains Mississippi’s top priority, but programs won’t see increases this year as steep as in years past, Gov. Barbour told lawmakers.
School & District Management
Business Assistance Aimed at Boosting Pre-K in Alabama
One of the nation’s most highly rated state-financed pre-K programs is getting help from the business community to help more families learn about it.
Federal
Pointing the Way to College
The National College Advising Corps places recent college graduates in high schools to help low-income students navigate the college-admissions process.
School Choice & Charters
Report Roundup
School Choice in Illinois
Half of likely voters in Illinois expressed moderate to strong support for the use of school vouchers, according to new a survey.
School Climate & Safety
Report Roundup
High School Sports
Participation in contact sports such as wrestling and football in high school increases a male athlete’s likelihood of getting involved in fighting by 40 percent, suggests a new study.
Student Well-Being
Report Roundup
Child Nutrition and Health
A study of low-income children in three cities has found that “food insecurity” is not strongly associated with being overweight.
School & District Management
Report Roundup
Researchers Examine Importance of Learning From ‘Explaining’
Learning improves dramatically among young children who take the time to explain academic concepts to their mothers or who explain their logic aloud to themselves, a study shows.
Federal
Tests of Tech Literacy Still Not Widespread Despite NCLB Goals
Tech literacy does not factor into the law’s school accountability provisions, and most states do not administer separate tech-literacy tests statewide.