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Waiver Watch: Time for ED to Get Serious about Graduation Rates
Last week on Ed Money Watch, Clare McCann reported on the new, comparable, statewide high school graduation rates released by the U.S. Department of Education. The bottom line: graduation rates are...
View ArticleSave the Date for January Event: Turnaround 2.0
Save the date for Turnaround 2.0: School Improvement Strategies that Tap the Potential of the PreK-3rd Grades, an event on January 14, 9-11 am, at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. We...
View ArticleAt Huffington Post: Turnaround 2.0: Solutions in Pre-K to Third Grade to Help...
In a post for the Huffington Post's Education blog, I wrote about the Early Education Initiative's event on January 14 that highlighted three promising strategies for turning around low-performing...
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Questions Swirling Around Obama’s Second-Term Steps on Early Learning
As President Obama gave his second inaugural address yesterday, many of us couldn’t help but linger over these words: “We are true to our creed,” Obama said, “when a little girl born into the bleakest...
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Schools Don’t Need Fewer Regulations, They Need Smarter Ones
Last week was National School Choice Week, a celebration that tends tomakestrangebedfellows of education policy advocates. The broad appeal of the movement – parents should be able to choose a...
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Waiver Watch: The Real Lessons Learned from the Senate Waiver Hearing
Tuesday was a big night for early education and higher education. But what about all the education that happens in between? Teachers were mentioned once, but in the context of deficit reduction, not...
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What to Think About AEI’s Cage-Busting Leadership Event
Last week, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted a panel of education reform leaders to discuss the role of transformational mindsets and management in celebration of Rick Hess’ new book,...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Full-Day Kindergarten
An under-examined aspect of President Obama’s new early childhood education plan is his proposal to encourage states to create more full-day kindergarten seats – though only after states are able to...
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Report: We’re Building a Grad Nation, but Challenges Remain
While many education advocates prepare for the looming sequester on March 1, the education policy news in D.C. wasn’t all bad this week. The nation is now on track– for the first time– to reach a 90...
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Podcast: Connecting Obama's Preschool Proposal to School 'Turnarounds'
In January, we held an event called Turnaround 2.0 to draw attention to the challenge of turning around elementary schools without improving the early years – including the early grades of elementary...
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Waiver Watch: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Texas has joined Pennsylvania, Wyoming, and 46 other states (including Washington, D.C.) in seeking waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB). With Nebraska and Montana sitting out, Vermont and North...
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First Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act
Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s...
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Harkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet
Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act, the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin...
View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
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View ArticleStorify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup
Tuesday and Wednesday, the Senate HELP Committee convened to mark up Chairman Tom Harkin's (D-IA) bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. @NewAmericaEd's Anne Hyslop and Conor...
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Waivers (of Waivers) Watch: If It Looks Like a Pause, and It Sounds Like a...
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan weighed in on the question of whether states can delay their timeline for using Common Core assessments in accountability systems for schools and...
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Update: A New NCLB Reauthorization Cheat Sheet
After the partisan markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, it is the House of Representatives' turn to debate reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. The Student Success...
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The Federal Role in Education: Mend it, Don’t End It
A few weeks ago I asked, “if Congress agrees the era of big government is over, why can’t we get an ESEA deal?” Both the Senate Democrats’ and House Republicans’ proposals to rewrite the No Child Left...
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At US News' Debate Club: Fix, Don't Eliminate, the Federal Role in Education
Yesterday, US News & World Report asked five experts in its Debate Club whether the Senate should pass the House’s No Child Left Behind rewrite – the Student Success Act. With the last week's House...
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What to Think About the DC IMPACT Study
Few teacher evaluation reforms have been as contentious as the IMPACT system in D.C. Public Schools. But a new study published by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff provides the firstempiricalevidence that...
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