Less money, more flexibility
California’s very belated budget gives less money to schools but more flexibility in how to spend the money, reports the Sacramento Bee. Summer school. Art and music. Classes for gifted children....
View ArticleGOP on NCLB: Rollback or reform?
States would have more say in school reform under a No Child Left Behind rewrite proposed by key Republican senators, led by Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, a former U.S. secretary of education. The...
View ArticleObama waives No Child Left Behind
President Obama will waive the key requirements of No Child Left Behind, he said today. States won’t have to show students are achieving proficiency in reading and math by 2014. States will set their...
View ArticleFlexibility? Not so much
Despite promises of flexibility on No Child Left Behind, the Education Department is micromanaging waivers, writes Mike Petrilli on Flypaper. He cites Education Department letters to the states...
View ArticleSpecial ed needs waivers too
“Flexibility is education’s new buzzword” – except for special education, writes Miriam Freedman, author of Fixing Special Education, in EdSource Today. . . . more than 6 million students with...
View ArticleFlexibility, respect cuts teacher turnover
Rachel Spector quit teaching in low-performing, all-minority East Palo Alto (California) after four years, “squashed” by pressure to teach in a prescribed way to raise test scores. “I didn’t feel...
View ArticleGrit is good, but academics come first
Stressing character traits such as “perseverance, self-monitoring, and flexibility” over cognition is a mistake, writes Mike Rose, a UCLA professor. Many so-called “non-cognitive” traits require...
View ArticleAccountability light and lighter
Sen. Tom Harkin and the Democrats have proposed a new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (aka No Child Left Behind). So have Sen. Lamar Alexander the the Republicans. Both “move away...
View ArticleFlexibility, low pay for online adjuncts
Job satisfaction is high for online adjunct instructors at Arizona’s Rio Salado College, despite low pay and no benefits, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Flexible work hours and...
View ArticleFor-profits offer flexibility — at a price
For-profit colleges charge $35,000 on average for an associate degree, on average, more than four times the cost at the average community college. Why does anyone choose a for-profit college? Students...
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