'Race to Top' Viewed as Template for a New ESEA
from Education Week
 Educators hoping for a glimpse at the next rendition of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act may want to take a close look at the rules for the Race to the Top program, which pushes states to adopt education redesign principles that federal officials say are likely to be the cornerstone of the Obama administration's plans for a new ESEA.
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Outstanding Teacher Award Winner Has Ties to Lakelands
from The Index-Journal
Lemuel Patterson, a Burton-Pack Elementary School science instructor in Columbia, S.C., has been named the Mary McLeod Bethune Outstanding Teacher Award recipient by the National Alliance of Black School Educators.
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New Directions in New Haven II: The District Perspective
from Public School Insights
Recently, Public School Insights shared an interview with David Cicarella, the union president who helped broker an historic agreement between teachers and the New Haven, Connecticut school district. In this interview, you'll hear from two district officials who were instrumental in the deal. Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries and Chief Operating Officer William Clark describe the groundbreaking collaboration that made the agreement possible.
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Black Education
from FrontPage Magazine
Detroit's (predominantly black) public schools are the worst in the nation and it takes some doing to be worse than Washington, D.C. Only three percent of Detroit's fourth-graders scored proficient on the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, sometimes called "The Nation's Report Card." Twenty-eight percent scored basic and 69 percent below basic.
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Is the Answer to the 'Boy Troubles' Recruiting Male Teachers?
from Education Week
On the surface, that's a logical response, and this column by Valerie Strauss in The Washington Post lays out the argument for recruiting more men for the classroom. The decline in educational aspirations among boys seen over the last two decades - responsible for the fact that nearly 58 percent of bachelor's degrees and 62 percent of associate's degrees now go to women - coincides with the decline in the number of males teaching.
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2010 Likely to See Major Debate on Education
from KTNV-TV
When it comes to education, Americans may disagree on most of the details, but they do agree on one point: Today's system is in need of an overhaul. Despite huge hikes in federal, state and local spending on schools in recent decades, policymakers, education advocates and experts, parents, employers and educators concur: The nation's children need better preparation for 21st century life and careers.
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Poverty Needn't Be Barrier to Learning
from The Boston Globe
As the legislature dives into the messy details of education reform, we risk losing sight of the good news that deserves to be celebrated - an educational strategy that allows large numbers of disadvantaged, low-income children to succeed in school. However, unless a comprehensive reform package emerges from the Legislature this month, these successes will remain as isolated examples in a system that is still leaving behind too many minority and low-income students.
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