Chicago Study: Leadership, Collaboration Are Keys to Transforming Schools
Multi-year analysis offers insight into what really works at priority schools.
Solving the Attendance Issue at Priority Schools
As student absences mount, graduation hopes dip. What's the answer?
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Chicago Study: Leadership, Collaboration Are Keys to Transforming Schools
By Mary Ellen Flannery As educators and policy-makers struggle to find solutions to the persistent problems in low-performing priority schools, there’s a new book that lights the way to school reform that works. Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago, a recent release from the University of Chicago Press, looks at student achievement... [Read more of this review]
Solving the Attendance Issue at Priority Schools
Starting next month, students from across the country will begin returning to school for a new academic year. The challenge at many lower-performing priority schools is to get those students to keep returning, day after day. Any educator at a priority school will tell you that each day of instruction is precious, especially when students have multi-year... [Read more of this review]
Can Teacher Power Save Schools?
In a sunny courtyard at Los Angeles’ sprawling Jefferson High School, three freshmen girls are writing a radio script about a tornado. Teacher Nicolle Fefferman has asked her class to write scripts about being caught in a natural disaster. The girls’ plot line: They’re having a party to celebrate wonderful news when a tornado uproots a tree and... [Read more of this review]
Unions Help Build Bridge Between Home and School
By Dana Fisher and Kevin Hart Parents and caregivers are truly our students’ first teachers – and school districts across the country are finding that getting parents more involved in their local schools can have a significant, lasting effect on student achievement. The National Education Association and its affiliates have been leading the... [Read more of this review]
Eskelsen Joins CA Rep. Judy Chu and AFT’s Weingarten in Plan to Strengthen Schools
By Amy Buffenbarger Congresswoman Judy Chu, D-CA unveiled her plan to improve the nation’s education system, proposing a new framework for school improvement models to be included in the reauthorization of the Elementary Secondary and Education Act (No Child Left Behind). “The current models emphasize firing and closing. I want to change the discussion... [Read more of this review]
The Power to Transform Schools
By Mary Ellen Flannery What happens when you give educators power? What happens when you let them decide how to spend their school’s budget or schedule their students’ time? Good things, it turns out. “My kids love coming to school,” says Las Vegas fifth-grade teacher Nadia DeLeon. And not only that, but they’re reading, writing and performing... [Read more of this review]
How the Union Helps Build a Better School
By Mary Ellen Flannery In every corner of Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, somebody is doing something to close achievement gaps. Whether it’s (shhh!) benchmark testing in a dark computer lab, or (Bravo! Bravo!) on-stage rehearsals for Cinderel la, where students have long known that princesses need not be White, every inch of this campus... [Read more of this review]
Central Falls Agrees to Rehire Fired Teachers
Ending a dispute that grabbed national headlines, the Central Falls, RI school district has reached a deal with its local union to rehire the 88 high school teachers and support staff who were fired earlier this year. Central Falls High School became the focal point of debate around federal School Improvement Grants in February when state Education... [Read more of this review]
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