The U.S. Department of Education will allow some states that have gotten waivers from pieces of the Elementary and Secondary Education to postpone using student growth on state tests as a factor in personnel decisions. Read Full Post >
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will offer states more flexibility on implementing the teacher evaluation piece of their NCLB waivers as they put the common core into practice. Read Full Post >
Several districts in Maryland are disagreeing with the state over what their teacher evaluation plans must contain. Read Full Post >
More schools would be held accountable for the performance of English-learners under the provisions of a bill to reauthorize the federal education law. Read Full Post >
In a revamped version of an NCLB waiver application, nine California districts would rate schools heavily on social and emotional factors and school climate. Read Full Post >
At the Mission Hill School in Boston, teachers decide which ways to assess their students, and why. Educator Kim Farris-Berg imagines what it would like like if all teachers across the country were similarly trusted. Read Full Post >
In this era of the school turnaround, what should a struggling school be turning into - and how can we know if it's working? Sam Chaltain has some ideas, but they would require a sea change in how we think about assessing whether or not students are learning. Read Full Post >
While the No Child Left Behind Act's threat of sanctions for low-performing schools can goose test scores, substantial school improvement comes from the law's ultimate sanction, wholesale restructuring, according to a new analysis of the law's effects in North Carolina. Read Full Post >
We are called to be "the ministers of the tests". It is not a high calling but we cannot change that. We can, however, be wiser than we were. Read Full Post >
After a decade or more of NCLB, some schools in California are hoping Michael Fullan can help them find the right drivers. Read Full Post >
