February 2, 2011

FRONT PAGE

Despite a $650 million federal infusion to spur innovation in education, the path to transform research into a usable product for the classroom is long and uncertain.

ESEA Renewal Could Gain Momentum

As President Obama makes a high-profile pitch for improving education, key lawmakers say they’re ready to work with the White House in a bipartisan way.

Fiscal Plights Leveraged for Governors' Agendas

Lawmakers are using states' financial shortfalls to press for more efficient, and effective, ways to improve and run schools.

Wanted: Ways to Measure Most Teachers

Nationwide, most teach subjects or in grades in which value-added data are unavailable.

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News in Brief

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Report Roundup

Financial Aid

News in Brief

Tucson Board Won't Join Ethnic-Studies Lawsuit

Report Roundup

News in Brief

Georgia District Refers 29 in Test-Cheating Probe

Report Roundup

District Spending

News in Brief

Report Roundup

Teacher Compensation

News in Brief

Teach For America to Launch Endowment With $100 Million

Report Roundup

Children of Incarcerated Parents

News in Brief

New Tenn. Evaluation System, Due in 6 Months, Lacks Detail

Report Roundup

School Misdemeanors

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Local School Board in Mass. Seeks Rollback of Common Standards

A bill has been filed at the board's bidding to reverse the state's adoption of common standards and vow to use common tests.

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Researchers Look for Ways to Curb 'Mean Girls' and Gossip

An emerging body of research is focusing on the subtler forms of bullying that teachers sometimes miss.

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Mastery of Science Eludes Most Students, NAEP Scores Indicate

Thirty-four percent of 4th graders, 30 percent of 8th graders, and 21 percent of seniors met at least the "proficient" level.

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K12 Inc., Research University Launch E-School

The virtual education company has teamed up with George Washington University to create a fully online private prep school for high schoolers.

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Best of the Blogs

Blogs of the Week

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Few 'i3' Winners Truly Rural, Report Asserts

An advocacy group says most winners in the federal innovation grant contest had just enough rural flavor to secure bonus points.

Policy Brief

Big-Name Crowd Lends Gist Support

State of the States

State of the States

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Not for Art's Sake Only

The hallmarks of the artistic process are the same skills that schools hope to impart on 21st-century classrooms, and more should be made of that connection, Bruce D. Taylor writes.

An Open Message to President Barack Obama

Daniel Tanner has a laundry list of complaints against the administration's education policies and it begins with Race to the Top.

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A Letter to My President—The One I Voted for...

It's poverty that sentences many children to lackluster educations, not their struggling schools, but the Race to the Top does not reflect that bitter reality, teacher Paul Karrer writes.

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Letters

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Letters

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The Maker Movement

Margaret Honey and Eric Siegel argue that the best way for students to get excited about math and science is by encouraging them to create, build, and invent.

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