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Despite Scrutiny of For-Profits, Crucial Questions Are Unanswered

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James Warren -- A recent Chicago forum on for-profit colleges made pertinent points about the state of American eduction but ignored some important issues.

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U.S. Asks Educators to Reinvent Student Tests, and How They Are Given

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Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers.

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Two tutoring companies fired in Oklahoma City amid fraud investigation

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 3, Clicks: 0)
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A+ Academics and Foundations Tutoring will no longer provide tutoring services to Oklahoma City Public Schools children as an investigation into allegations of fraud continues.

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Stuck in the Middle

nitajo sumitted ago via http://educationnext.org (Views: 25, Clicks: 13)
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How and why middle schools harm student achievement.

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NYC Study Gives K-8 Schools an Edge Over Middle Schools

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According to the study, which was posted online today by the journal Education Next, students who move from elementary school to middle school experience a bigger dip in mathematics and language arts achievement than their K-8 counterparts do, and they tend to be absent more often.

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A Celebratory Road Trip for Education Secretary

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 5, Clicks: 1)
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Arne Duncan’s bus tour from New York to Maine is billed as a way to honor teachers.

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Scholastic Books Revamps Its Marketing

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 8, Clicks: 2)
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The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.

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L.A. Unified board makes first statements about test score analysis of teachers

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 7, Clicks: 2)
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Most members say the current way of evaluating teachers needs to be reworked; some add parents deserve more information about instructors. Some criticize The Times' publication of database.

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Race to the Top momentum important in following through with Oklahoma school reform

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 13, Clicks: 8)
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Oklahoma Editorial -- Oklahoma may not have won any money in either round of the federal Race to the Top competition. But the state's scores in the second round jumped so dramatically from the first attempt that the state just missed becoming a finalist.

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Shawnee teacher wins prize for hand-washing chart

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 8, Clicks: 4)
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A little bit of purple glitter went a long way in a lesson about the importance of washing hands in Starrla Sims' prekindergarten classroom at Crossroads Youth and Family Services Head Start in Shawnee.

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Formula to Grade Teachers’ Skill Gains in Use, and Critics

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 16, Clicks: 10)
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Many school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to evaluate teachers, provoking battles from Washington to Los Angeles.

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Both Norman high schools rank in top 10 in ACT scores

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 21, Clicks: 15)
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Norman North ranked third and Norman High eighth among Oklahoma schools in ACT scores this year.

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Education Reconsidered: Beyond the Death of Critical Education

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 7, Clicks: 2)
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Mainstream educators and commentators are warning that the United States, once in the forefront among advanced capitalist societies in graduation rates, has fallen to 12th place and is still tumbling. Many are concerned that education has become a national security issue. Others point out that the engines of the global economy are math and science and this country is turning out fewer trained physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and computer scientists.

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Education Secretary Duncan hits the road for reform

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan is on a campaign to cheer on America's teachers at a time when a sizeable number are skeptical of President Obama's education agenda.

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Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing teacher effectiveness rankings

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 23, Clicks: 11)
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National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores.

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Despite Scrutiny of For-Profits, Crucial Questions Are Unanswered

U.S. Asks Educators to Reinvent Student Tests, and How They Are Given

Two tutoring companies fired in Oklahoma City amid fraud investigation

Stuck in the Middle

NYC Study Gives K-8 Schools an Edge Over Middle Schools

A Celebratory Road Trip for Education Secretary

Scholastic Books Revamps Its Marketing

L.A. Unified board makes first statements about test score analysis of teachers

Race to the Top momentum important in following through with Oklahoma school reform

Shawnee teacher wins prize for hand-washing chart

Formula to Grade Teachers’ Skill Gains in Use, and Critics

Both Norman high schools rank in top 10 in ACT scores

Education Reconsidered: Beyond the Death of Critical Education

Education Secretary Duncan hits the road for reform

Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing teacher effectiveness rankings

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