Program Evaluation

Denby High School Principal K.C. Wilbourn reacts to news of a student’s death last week. According to local press reports, the teenager was among four people—two men, a woman, and the teenage boy—who were found shot to death in a Detroit home earlier in the week. The home later burned in a suspicious fire. Turning around low-performing schools in such stressful environments is a challenge, and Ms. Wilbourn says she appreciates the support she’s gotten so far from the state’s Education Achievement Authority.
Denby High School Principal K.C. Wilbourn reacts to news of a student’s death last week. According to local press reports, the teenager was among four people—two men, a woman, and the teenage boy—who were found shot to death in a Detroit home earlier in the week. The home later burned in a suspicious fire. Turning around low-performing schools in such stressful environments is a challenge, and Ms. Wilbourn says she appreciates the support she’s gotten so far from the state’s Education Achievement Authority.
Brian Widdis for Education Week
States Disputes Dog Michigan Achievement Authority
The Education Achievement Authority is at the center of a raging battle—just months into its turnaround efforts in Detroit.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, December 20, 2012
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5 min read
Denby High School Principal K.C. Wilbourn reacts to news of a student’s death last week. According to local press reports, the teenager was among four people—two men, a woman, and the teenage boy—who were found shot to death in a Detroit home earlier in the week. The home later burned in a suspicious fire. Turning around low-performing schools in such stressful environments is a challenge, and Ms. Wilbourn says she appreciates the support she’s gotten so far from the state’s Education Achievement Authority.
Denby High School Principal K.C. Wilbourn reacts to news of a student’s death last week. According to local press reports, the teenager was among four people—two men, a woman, and the teenage boy—who were found shot to death in a Detroit home earlier in the week. The home later burned in a suspicious fire. Turning around low-performing schools in such stressful environments is a challenge, and Ms. Wilbourn says she appreciates the support she’s gotten so far from the state’s Education Achievement Authority.
Brian Widdis for Education Week
States Mich. Achievement Authority a Lightning Rod for Controversy
The Education Achievement Authority is at the center of a raging battle—just months into its turnaround efforts in Detroit.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, December 11, 2012
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5 min read
Federal Ed. Dept. Analysis Paints Mixed Picture of SIG Program
Two-thirds of schools that tapped into a new infusion of School Improvement Grant cash made first-year math and reading gains, but a third saw achievement drop.
Alyson Klein, December 4, 2012
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7 min read
Students walk through the hallways on their way to class at Walter H. Dyett High School. Community members and students are protesting a planned closure of the school, which they say will force students to attend a high school two miles away.
Students walk through the hallways on their way to class at Walter H. Dyett High School. Community members and students are protesting a planned closure of the school, which they say will force students to attend a high school two miles away.
Jon Lowenstein/NOOR for Education Week
Families & the Community School Shutdowns Trigger Growing Backlash
Student and parent groups in five cities are calling for a moratorium on school closings, as debates over their effects intensify.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, October 16, 2012
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8 min read
Classroom Technology New Tools Seek to Evaluate Ed-Tech Products
An ambitious proposal from two economists attempts to create a "Consumer Reports" for educational technology.
Jason Tomassini, October 16, 2012
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7 min read
Federal Q&A: Salman Khan on the Future of Education (Part II)
Part II of BookMark's interview with Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy and author of One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined (Twelve, 2012).
Catherine A. Cardno, September 28, 2012
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4 min read
First graders Will McDowell and Jonathan Fulton practice a proper handshake during morning meeting in their classroom at the William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth, Maine. The school uses a social-emotional-learning approach known as Responsive Classroom.
First graders Will McDowell and Jonathan Fulton practice a proper handshake during morning meeting in their classroom at the William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth, Maine. The school uses a social-emotional-learning approach known as Responsive Classroom.
John Tully for Education Week
Teaching Researchers Link 'Responsive' Classes to Learning Gains
Researchers say the Responsive Classroom approach can boost test scores—but only if teachers implement it faithfully.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, September 18, 2012
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4 min read
First graders Will McDowell and Jonathan Fulton practice a proper handshake during morning meeting in their classroom at the William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth, Maine. The school uses a social-emotional-learning approach known as Responsive Classroom.
First graders Will McDowell and Jonathan Fulton practice a proper handshake during morning meeting in their classroom at the William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth, Maine. The school uses a social-emotional-learning approach known as Responsive Classroom.
John Tully for Education Week
Teaching Research Links 'Responsive' Teaching to Academic Gains
A new study adds to the growing body of research showing that social-emotional learning can positively influence academic, as well as behavioral, results.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, September 13, 2012
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5 min read
BRIC ARCHIVE
Chris Whetzel
Classroom Technology Quality Control a Challenge for Virtual Ed.
Different approaches are emerging as states try to determine how to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual schools.
Ian Quillen, August 27, 2012
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6 min read
Illustration by Chris Whetzel
Illustration by Chris Whetzel
Teaching Educators Evaluate 'Flipped Classrooms'
Benefits and drawbacks are seen in the approach, which replaces in-class lectures with on-demand video to make more time for analysis and discussion during class time.
Katie Ash, August 27, 2012
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7 min read
Classroom Technology Digital Advocacy Group Wields Policy Influence
The bipartisan organization Digital Learning Now pushes its agenda in state legislatures, but critics say the group's impact is overrated.
Michelle R. Davis, August 27, 2012
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2 min read
A boy uses his laptop at the Jose Maria public school in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Peru has sent more than 800,000 laptop computers children across the country, one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years into the program, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the more than $200 million that Peru's government spent.
A boy uses his laptop at the Jose Maria public school in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Peru has sent more than 800,000 laptop computers children across the country, one of the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years into the program, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the more than $200 million that Peru's government spent.
Karel Navarro/AP
Classroom Technology Peru's Laptop Program Gets Mixed Grades
There are doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the cost.
The Associated Press, July 17, 2012
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6 min read
Curriculum Educational Ratings for Digital Content Launched
An educational ratings system for digital content announced about a year ago has debuted with listings for more than 150 mobile products.
Ian Quillen, June 13, 2012
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1 min read
Federal Study: Most ELLs Are in Districts That Fall Short on Federal Goals
Analysts find plenty of room to grow for districts getting federal funds to provide English-language-acquisition services.
Lesli A. Maxwell, May 22, 2012
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5 min read
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