December 5, 2001
Education Week, Vol. 21, Issue 14
Ed-Tech Policy
Ohio Audit Reveals Difficulties Of Tracking Online Students
Ohio's first online charter school—the Electronic Classroom Of Tomorrow, or eCOT—received $1.7 million in state payments for students who may not have met enrollment requirements in September and October of 2000, a recent state audit concludes.
School & District Management
UC System Takes Broader Approach To Admissions Criteria
One of the nation's largest university systems continues to be at the center of debate over how students seeking admission to higher education should be judged.
School & District Management
Increased Choice Found To Have Modest Impact on School Improvement
When parents have more options for their children's schooling, academic achievement, salaries, and graduation rates in school systems all tend to improve—but not by much. That conclusion comes in a recent review of studies looking at the effects of competition on education.
Education Funding
Sluggish Economy Tests High-Tech Industry's Generosity
Their stock values have tanked, sales to consumers are sluggish, and many have laid off employees. Still, the nation's top high-tech companies are promising schools that they have no plans to downsize their philanthropic initiatives. Includes the accompanying story, "Intel Chief Talks About Education."
Their stock values have tanked, sales to consumers are sluggish, and many have laid off employees. Still, the nation's top high-tech companies are promising schools that they have no plans to downsize their philanthropic initiatives. Includes the accompanying story, "Intel Chief Talks About Education."
Education
Intel Chief Talks About Education
In a Nov. 6 interview with Education Week, Craig R. Barrett, 62, the chief executive officer of Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of microchips and a leading sponsor of educational initiatives in many countries, discussed some of his views on education with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter.
In a Nov. 6 interview with Education Week, Craig R. Barrett, 62, the chief executive officer of Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of microchips and a leading sponsor of educational initiatives in many countries, discussed some of his views on education with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter.
School & District Management
Phila. Takeover Deadline Marked by Protests
As top deputies for Philadelphia's mayor and Pennsylvania's governor parried last week over how the state will take over the city's schools, hundreds of chanting citizens stopped rush-hour traffic to demonstrate their opposition to hiring private management to run their neediest schools.
Equity & Diversity
Colleges
Texas and California lawmakers recently decided to allow undocumented immigrants to pay lower, in-state tuition for college. But New York City has moved in the opposite direction.
Immigrants and Tuition
Texas and California lawmakers recently decided to allow undocumented immigrants to pay lower, in-state tuition for college. But New York City has moved in the opposite direction.
Education
Recruiters' Access to Schools Draws Controversy
Military recruiters' access to high school campuses has been a complicated and often politically charged issue. But recruiting students into the military may soon become easier because of an amendment to the K-12 education bill under consideration by Congress.
Education
News in Brief: A National Roundup
- Wis. High Court Allows Liability for Playground Fall
- Duval County, Fla., District Is Desegregated, Court Agrees
- Albuquerque School Officers to Carry Weapons Off-Hours
- New York Firefighters to Thank S.C. School for New Truck
- Wash. State Woman, 32, Sentenced After Posing
As High School Student - Calif. District Clarifies Method for Giving Out Teacher Bonuses
- University of Texas Drops Appeals in Hopwood Case
- Death
Education
A Snapshot of Choice
The following chart shows enrollment information for selected public school districts and the United States as a whole, including the number of students attending regular public schools, the number attending charter schools, the number receiving privately financed, voucher-style scholarships to attend private schools, and the number using publicly financed vouchers to attend private schools.
Mathematics
Reading Mastery Is New Requisite For Solving Math
Over the past decade, a cutting-edge approach to math has been turning mathematics teachers into reading aides. The new curricula, which attempt to introduce students to the subject in real-life situations, require more reading and writing than students have ever been asked to do before in math classes.
School Choice & Charters
Exercising Their Options
They met and fell in love in the hallways of Walnut Hills High School. They're proud Cincinnati public school graduates and boast about their alma mater's academic prowess.
School Choice & Charters
Coming to Terms With History
Public schools course through Virginia Walden-Ford's veins.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
Put an End to Two-Tier Early-Literacy Education
It's time to get back to what research has confirmed works best in early-literacy instruction, lest at-risk children are left way behind, write Jerry Zimmerman and Carolyn Brown.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Can Teaching Become an Elite Profession?
Creating and reinforcing an elite professional culture among teachers would be a radicially democratic way to improve schools, writes Peter Temes.
School & District Management
Opinion
The Case for 'New Village' Schools
Tony Wagner says that new small schools are encouraging accountable relationships, which motivate students through respect and sense of purpose rather than fear.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
Upgrading the Lunch Period
Instead of ignoring lunch period, writes Karen E. Stout, we should use this time to instill in schoolchildren some of our most cherished values.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Letters
- Can Patriotism Live Without Discussion
- New Science Center Clarifies Its Mission
- Critical Notes on Writing the News
- Ron Unz in Mass.: 'Ridiculous' Rhetoric
- Whole-School Failure: Isn't Time We Admit That Some Reform Models Don't Work
Education
Correction
A story in the Nov. 21, 2001, issue of Education Week ("Bay State's Exam Has Left Its Mark") provided incorrect information about Boston students' results on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS. Sixty-one percent of 10th graders in Boston public schools passed the English portion of the test, and 53 percent passed the mathematics section.
