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Race to the Top Reform Turns Up the Heat
from Examiner
 The race is on. What better way to improve education than to dangle a carrot, increase competition, offer monetary incentives. Money, after all, moves mountainside also breeds resentment, anger, and can result in greed and self-serving behaviors that are counter intuitive to educating, turning out excellent and moral citizens.
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Green Dot's Founder's Answers for School Reform
from Edutopia
The Obama administration has set a goal of turning around 5,000 failing schools in the next five years, supported by an expected $3 billion in stimulus funds and $2 billion in the 2009 and 2010 budgets. Known in education circles and beyond as an aggressive agent of change, Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot's, has been in talks with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about how to boost failing schools and whether Green Dot's methods can serve as a blueprint for fixing schools across the country.
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Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
A panel of senior professors and researchers told attendees at the largest annual gathering of U.S. minority graduate school students that earning their Ph.D.s and becoming faculty will help make them effective advocates for expanding the educational pipeline of students of color seeking higher education.
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The Cost of Dropping Out: Particularly High for Young Black Men
from Education Week
We know that children of color and poverty get the rawest end of the deal in our schools, and that they pay the highest price for it. Now comes yet another disheartening stack of data to quantify that cost for us. A new report from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University finds that one in ten young male high school dropouts are in custody on an average day. For black men, it's worse.
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Report: Children in Poverty Deserve Great Teachers
from Public School Insights
"School reformers [should] begin working with teachers - rather than around them" - this is the overarching theme of a new report by Barnett Berry of Berry's Center for Teaching Quality. As a product of collaboration between NEA and Berry's Center for Teaching Quality, the report examines how to get top teachers into the classrooms that need them most.
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The Turnaround Fallacy
from Education Next
For as long as there have been struggling schools in America's cities, there have been efforts to turn them around. The lure of dramatic improvement runs through Morgan Freeman’s big-screen portrayal of bat-wielding principal Joe Clark, philanthropic initiatives like the Gates Foundation's "small schools" project, and No Child Left Behind’s restructuring mandate. The Obama administration hopes to extend this thread even further, making school turnarounds a top priority.
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Taking the True Measure of a School: An Interview with Principal Beth Madison
from Public School Insights
How you measure a school's progress matters. A lot. Just ask Beth Madison, principal of a school that is thriving by common-sense measures and failing by official measures.
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Study: Online Education a Key to Helping More Low-income Students Obtain Degrees
from Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Can online programs improve completion rates for other low-income students and help them improve their economic status? Western Governors University (WGU) hopes to answer this question with the help of a $1.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the potential of its online program. "The study's goal is to demonstrate that the WGU competency-based online education system, with personal mentors for each student, can significantly improve completion rates," says Dr. Robert Mendenhall, WGU president.
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NASBE Calls for New Assessment Systems that Balance Accountability with Improvements in Teaching and Learning
from Reuters
With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, standardized assessments went from being one method of determining the academic achievement of a student, school, or district to being the only metric that mattered. What happened in this rush for accountability was the creation of a multiplicity of assessments that fail to adequately guide teachers in helping students learn.
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