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Schools chief is firm on expulsion
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Toledo removed students more often
When new Cleveland schools Chief Executive Eugene Sanders says he\'s not going to tolerate disruptive students, he has a track record to back it up.
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Rationing Education
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By Jennifer Booher-Jennings
In dire circumstances -- a battlefield, a devastating natural disaster or an overcrowded emergency room -- we accept the rationing of scarce resources as a necessary if regrettable choice. We triage.
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Diversity Myth-Perceptions
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by Eileen Gale Kugler
Finding a good school filled with capable teachers, motivated students and committed parents like themselves is one of a parent’s most important responsibilities. In seeking a good school for their child, however, many parents fall prey to pervasive “myth-perceptions” that can poison public attitudes toward diverse schools.
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Why We Need a National School Test
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William J. Bennett and Rod Paige
We need to find better and more efficient ways to produce an educated population and close the achievement gaps in our education system. Americans do ultimately get themselves educated -- at work, after school, online, in adulthood -- but a lot of time and money are wasted in the process.
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School-safety plan starts with a hug
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Like members of a feuding family trying to prove to the world they really do get along, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and school officials shared a hug Wednesday just days after he won greater control of Los Angeles Unified.
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Mayor starts search for LAUSD team
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Offering a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a big difference," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is recruiting applicants for a "reform team" to help implement the LAUSD takeover bill recently signed into law.
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Maryland School Reform Goes 'Lite'
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Using Turnaround Specialists Is Common -- and Futile, Study Says
Report says Prince George's County system consistently chooses the least drastic option available when faced with serious shakeups.
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What the Public Really Wants on Education
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There is broad agreement across the political spectrum that the public school system needs to be reformed to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The question is: How?
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Fenty, Janey and their big school plans
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Back in 1999, when Democrat Adrian Fenty served as counsel for the D.C. Council education panel and Arlene Ackerman served as superintendent, city leaders developed a 10-year plan that would modernize or close schools by 2009. Flash forward 10 years and city leaders are developing a plan that would modernize or close schools by 2019.
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In Defense of Testing Series: The Source of Lake Wobegon
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John J. Cannell's late 1980's “Lake Wobegon” reports suggested widespread deliberate educator manipulation of test administrations and results. The Cannell studies have been referenced in education research since, but as evidence that high stakes cause test score inflation. This article examines that research and Cannell's data for evidence that high stakes cause test score inflation. No such evidence is found. Indeed, the evidence indicates that, if anything, the absence of high stakes is associated with artificial test score gains.
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LAUSD reform: It's law
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Hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Monday giving the mayor of Los Angeles authority to govern public schools, Antonio Villaraigosa fired off a letter to the school board asking for "modified" use of his new powers until the law takes effect.Hours after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Monday giving the mayor of Los Angeles authority to govern public schools, Antonio Villaraigosa fired off a letter to the school board asking for "modified" use of his new powers until the law takes effect.
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An Interview with Marcus A. Winters: To Socially Promote or Not to “ Socially Promote”
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A School System Slugs It Out
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In the past 15 months, two superintendents have resigned in Somers, the latter after a tumultuous year marked by the grudging departure of a popular high school principal.
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In Defense of Testing Series: From Goals to Results: Improving Education System Accountability
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Southern Regional Education Board
SREB's Challenge to Lead goals call for states to encourage early childhood programs, K-12 schools, community and technical colleges, two- and four-year colleges, universities and adult education to work together as a system. This includes focusing on helping students make smooth transitions to the next education level (especially first grade, ninth grade and college), building statewide education data systems that can track individual students and teachers over time, and achieving real-dollar growth in state budgets for K-12 and higher education. This report concludes the first series of reports on each Challenge to Lead goal. It includes recommendations and an action agenda, From Goals to Results . Making It Happen, that can help your state make progress toward all of the goals.
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SUMMARY OF MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA ' S EDUCATION
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Office of Mayor Villaraigosa
. Reforming our Public Schools is the Central Challenge
. The Goal is to Improve Student Achievement and Close Achievement Gaps
. Governance Proposal
. Outline of Proposed Legislation
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