MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Will the president-elect lean toward someone from the more innovative end of the reform movement (the group Democratic Rep. George Miller, who heads the U.S. House education committee, admiringly calls the "Disrupters") or a candidate with close ties to the teachers' unions?
Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Eduwonk links to Education Trust slides of seventh-grade writing assignments at two California middle schools. One asks students to analyze Anne Frank’s character; the other asks students to write about “my best friend” or “a chore I hate.” The expectations gap is huge, he writes. Raising expectations doesn’t work unless other things happen too, writes commenter [...]
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Core Problems: Out-of-Field Teaching Persists in Key Academic Courses, Especially in America’s High-Poverty and High-Minority Schools Source: Education Trust In America’s secondary schools, low-income students and students of color are about twice as likely as other students to be enrolled in core academic classes taught by out-of-field teachers, according to a report released today by...
The Gradebook (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Surprise, surprise: Another analysis of teacher quality, another finding of disparities for low-income and minority students. (As faithful Gradebook readers know, we've been writing about this a lot lately.) The latest is from The Education Trust, which found poor and...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
— Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group. Studies show that the connection between...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
THE Scotsman was last night praised for helping to save educational trips for Scottish schoolchildren to Auschwitz after SNP ministers caved in to pressure over funding.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
THE Scotsman was last night praised for helping to save educational trips for Scottish schoolchildren to Auschwitz after SNP ministers caved in to pressure over funding.
ajc.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
While about 95 percent of Georgia’s middle and high school teachers met the federal requirement of “highly qualified,” only 65 percent of the teachers said in a survey that they had the appropriate certification, according to the study from The Education Trust, a child advocacy group.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Tynecastle legends including Gary Mackay, Scott Crabbe, Jimmy Sandison, Jose Quitongo, John Robertson and Alan Lawrence will be at the town's Warout Stadium for a match in aid of the East Neuk Wheelchair Appeal, run by Radio 1 presenter Edith Bowman'ADVERTISEMENTs mum, Eleanor."It's the latest in a multitude of matches we're playing on behalf of the Heart of Midlothian Community and Education...
St. Louis CofCC Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
P-D : Math teachers often don’t add up for at-risk students Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don’t know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children’s...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Study: Teachers Not Far Ahead Of Students In MathThe Associated PressWASHINGTON - Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students.It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Study: Teachers Not Far Ahead Of Students In MathThe Associated PressWASHINGTON - Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students.It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students. It happens, and it happens more often to poor and minority students. Those children are about twice as likely to have math teachers who don't know their subject, according to a report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group.
