States experiment with common education standards
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Apr 26, 2011 at 5:44 PMForty-two states are committed to teaching children according to a single set of new standards, and many class lessons are changing already, reports the New York Times. This is a key development in the education of our kids.…
Obama: Education equality “the civil rights issue of our time”
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Apr 7, 2011 at 1:49 PMPresident Obama vowed to work to eliminate achievement gaps in education at a gathering yesterday. Obama spoke to a friendly crowd at the 20th anniversary of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, saying “Too many of our kids are…
STATE READING SCORES: ARE ALL AMERICA’S CHILDREN REALLY ABOVE AVERAGE?
Posted by Bill Bentley on Jul 5, 2010 at 6:35 PMAnalysis by child advocates shows wildly varying state assessments distort true condition of education
WASHINGTON – State-level school reading tests vary so greatly with each other and the findings of the U.S. Department of Education national assessment that it is…
Racial gaps in early learning
Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on May 20, 2010 at 6:58 PMEarly Ed Watch yesterday provided an excellent overview of the early learning listening tours being conducted now by the Department of Education. As Congress considers renewing federal education programs, one issue we’d like policymakers to listen to is…
Where does your state rank on student reading?
Posted by Casey_Labrack on May 19, 2010 at 3:34 PMThe Annie E. Casey Foundation’s comprehensive report, “Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters,” this week drew attention to the problem of student underperformance in reading. Now that data has been integrated with the Foundation’s…
