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Pima Community College seeks to end some remedial classes
The Pima Community College chancellor wants to eliminate the school’s lowest-level remedial education classes because they aren’t effective. Opponents say the proposal would cut off access to the only education… Read more
Easing test pressure won’t save kids
Jay Mathews Who is to blame for tampering with tests in Atlanta and Baltimore? Why are there so many suspicious testing irregularities in Washington, Philadelphia and other cities? From what… Read more
The real problem with IMPACT teacher evaluation
John Thompson The firings late last week of more than 200 D.C. public school teachers based on the IMPACT evaluation system that was instituted under former chancellor Michelle Rhee should… Read more
UC Berkeley asks incoming students for DNA testing samples
A UC Berkeley freshman orientation program triggered national debate last year when it asked new students to send in saliva samples for voluntary DNA testing for three dietary traits. The… Read more
Terry Moe: The Internet Will Reduce Teachers Union Power
Online learning means fewer teachers (and union members) per student.
Los Angeles schools: School board begins overhaul of policy barring social promotion of students
The nation’s second-largest school district officially launched itself once more into an ongoing national debate over social promotion, the practice of moving students to the next grade even when they’re… Read more
Old Dominion U. professor is trying to save Internet history
What if you woke up tomorrow and all of your painstakingly edited YouTube videos were gone, your 4,000-entry Twitter feed erased and your lovingly tended Facebook page deleted?… Read more
Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!
WITH apologies to show business, there’s no business like the business of law school. The basic rules of a market economy — even golden oldies, like a link between supply… Read more
Proposal to School Districts and Corporate America 2011- 2015
The most powerful and cost effective method to turn around failing schools is to provide them effective teachers and principals.
Spotty discipline records at the BC College of Teachers – Report Card
Using the freedom-of-information law, I recendly obtained a list of all discipline cases handled by the B.C. College of Teachers in 2008. These records show that scores of… Read more
