by Carol A. Josel | Jun 24, 2014 | Making Education News
1. The U.S. Department of Education handed out $53.6 billion in Obama’s stimulus money to help K-12 budgets as long was they publicly reported on numerous education indicators, such as the performance of charters and the percentage of high school grads...
by Carol A. Josel | Jun 23, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “On Thursday, Secretary of State Arne Duncan informed Washington that he was revoking the waiver that had freed it from impossible-to-meet requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the quixotic mandate that 100 percent of students be...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 17, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Parents deserve to have an assessment of their child’s progress that is independent of what teachers say on report cards. I also think assessing schools with test score averages is a useful exercise. But I don’t like the current fad of rating...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 11, 2014 | Making Education News
1) In a survey of 1,000 principals in 14 states, 80% said they are prioritizing the new Common Core standards for school improvement in the belief they’ll provide students with deeper learning and ore meaningful assessments. 2) Three new polls find that just...
by Carol A. Josel | Feb 10, 2014 | Quotable Quotes
** “Let me get this straight: School reformers, including Arne Duncan, are alienating millions of teachers and hurting countless students and their families over a teacher evaluation policy that–using their own prize methodology (ignorant that we may...
