Student Mobility
Student Mobility: How It Affects Learning
Schools and students pay a price when students change schools frequently.
Equity & Diversity
Rags to Riches in U.S. Largely a Myth, Scholars Write
Among Americans’ most cherished beliefs is the idea that the United States is a land of opportunity, a place where all children have an equal shot at success regardless of the circumstances of their birth. A growing body of research suggests, however, that idea may be a myth.
Federal
Students Displaced by Storms Score Lower on State Tests
Gulf Coast students who were displaced to other states last year by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita scored significantly lower on state tests than their peers in those new states, according to data released by several states that took in large numbers of such students.
Federal
Groups Press for Enforcement on NCLB Choice Option
With few students taking advantage of their school choice options under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, advocates are increasing the pressure on officials at all levels to meet the letter of the law.
Federal
States Late With Data About AYP
More than a dozen states will not release information about whether schools have met achievement targets under the federal No Child Left Behind Act until after the school year begins, and about a dozen more are just releasing their lists either this week or last.
Federal
Choice, SES Would Flip Under Plan
The U.S. Department of Education is planning to expand a pilot initiative that would flip the order of key consequences for schools’ low academic performance under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Federal
Opinion
‘Supplemental Services’: Theory vs. Practice
Jeffrey Cohen, the president of Education Station, a leading provider of supplemental education services, looks at how this No Child Left Behind mandate can be modified so that it actually works.
Standards & Accountability
Reporter's Notebook
AERA Sessions Run Gamut From NCLB to Instant Messaging
This year’s American Educational Research Association annual meeting, held April 7-11 in San Francisco, drew researchers from 49 countries and featured 4,000 different sessions on everything from instant messaging to neuroscience.
Federal
Complaint Targets NCLB Transfers in Calif.
A team of conservative legal scholars last week filed a complaint charging that two Southern California school districts fail to offer students school choice as required under federal law and asked the U.S. Department of Education to withhold the districts’ federal funds.
School & District Management
Hurricanes’ Aftermath Is Ongoing
As displaced students continue returning to their home schools in Louisiana and Mississippi, tens of thousands remain scattered elsewhere.
School Climate & Safety
Miles Apart
With her sister and father living far away in storm-ravaged Mississippi, an 8th grader finds comfort in meeting new classmates and in staying in touch with old ones.
School Climate & Safety
A Special Bond
They had never met back in New Orleans, but a pair of 9th graders have become inseparable since ending up in the same Maryland high school.
School Climate & Safety
Venturing Back Home
After four months in Virginia, a New Orleans family is returning to an uncertain future.
School Climate & Safety
Katrina’s Castaways
Historians are calling the displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina the greatest mass migration in the United States since the Civil War.