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Some Schools Grouping Students By Skill, Not Grade Level
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Forget about students spending one year in each grade, with the entire class learning the same skills at the same time. Districts from Alaska to Maine are taking a different route. Instead of simply moving kids from one grade to the next as they get older, schools are grouping students by ability. Once
they master a subject, they move up a level. This practice has been around for decades, but was generally used on a smaller scale, in individual grades, subjects or schools. Now, in the latest effort to transform the bedraggled Kansas City, MO, schools, the district is about to become what reform experts say is the largest one to try the approach. More
Literacy: Time, Fidelity, Patience
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A new report, published by the Public Policy Institute of California, evaluates the success of a comprehensive literacy initiative implemented in the San Diego Unified School District. The results of the research carry important implications for secondary leaders: when it comes to improving literacy skills, the longer we wait to intervene, the more difficult it is. Elementary and middle school students can catch up if given more time and better-trained teachers. However, high school students are often so far behind that extended English classes are not sufficient.
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Call for Manuscripts on School Reform and STEM Learning
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For the January 2011 issue, the editor of Principal Leadership is looking for stories of success in the process of school reform: defining a problem and gathering data to support your initiative, informing and motivating stakeholders, evaluating and sustaining improvements. Whatever part of the reform process your school has been successful with, please take the time to share what you learned. The deadline for submission is
Sept. 20. Also, for the April 2011 issue, consider writing about how your school is ensuring that students have the best education possible in math, science, engineering, and technology. Deadline for this issue is Dec. 6. Manuscripts of not more than 2,000 words should be submitted to plmag@principals.org.
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Math Program Is a Good Idea, But Not the Answer
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Middle schools in Silicon Valley have begun to use an intervention program (FAME) to improve the math skills of their teachers and help them better prepare their students for success in Algebra 1. However, as Mel Riddile writes, preparing teachers to be competent must occur before they enter the classroom, not after it has been
determined that they are unqualified. Relying on an intervention program like FAME rather than rigorous academic teacher preparation means that improvements will be obtained only after students have been academically impaired.
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Turnaround Experts Offer Customized Services to Schools
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The NASSP Leadership Programs and Services team is now offering technical assistance to school districts and schools engaged in improving student performance through the support of School Improvement Grants and Race to the Top funds. Utilizing the Breaking Ranks framework, the Association's experienced staff and school improvement specialists will provide in-depth customized services to redesign, enhance, and sustain school
improvement efforts in middle level and high schools. For more information, contact Dick Flanary, NASSP senior director of leadership programs and services, at flanaryd@principals.org or 703-860-7294.
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Ten Named Race to the Top Winners
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The U.S. Education Department announced today that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top grant competition. Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia will receive grants, department spokesman Justin Hamilton said.
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ACT Scores Dip, But More Students Meet College Benchmarks
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Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam inched downward this year, yet slightly more students who took the test proved to be prepared for college, according to a report released last week. The findings sound contradictory. But the exam's authors point to a growing and more diverse group of test-takers — many are likely scoring lower overall, but more are also meeting benchmarks used to measure college readiness.
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Drive to Overhaul Low-Performing Schools Delayed
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan set an ambitious goal last year of overhauling 1,000 schools a year, using billions of dollars in federal stimulus money. But that effort is off to an uneven start. Schools from Maine to California are starting the fall term with their overhaul plans postponed or in doubt because negotiations among federal regulators, state officials and local educators have led to delays and confusion.
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States, Districts Mull How to Use $10 Billion in Jobs Aid
Education Week
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As governors gear up to apply for federal money from the $10 billion Education Jobs Fund, states and school districts are wrestling with how they plan to
spend the aid the Obama Administration said was desperately needed to save some 160,000 educators' jobs that otherwise would be lost.
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Secretary of Education Endorses Release of Teacher Data
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that parents have a right to know if their children's teachers are effective, endorsing the public release of information about how well individual teachers fare at raising their students' test scores. "What's there to hide?" Duncan said in an interview one day after The Times published an analysis of teacher effectiveness in the Los Angeles Unified
School District, the nation's second largest school system. "In education, we've been scared to talk about success."
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Curriculum Producers Work to Reflect New
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It was a giant wave: Three-quarters of the states adopted a new set of common academic standards in the past
six months. As that wave crests, education groups and publishers are preparing to follow with one of their own—curriculum materials that aim to embody the new standards. An early example comes from the Washington-based advocacy group Common Core, which this week released free online "maps" of the common standards that are intended to serve as a frame upon which teachers can build curriculum and lesson plans.
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Part of providing a 21st-century education means incorporating digital resources into the classroom, but not
every school has the knowledge necessary to implement education technology successfully. To help remedy this situation, former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and former Democratic Gov. Bob Wise of West Virginia have put their party differences aside to head a new Digital Learning Council that will create implementation guidelines for states and schools.
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With Limited Training, TFA Recruits Play Expanding Role in Schools
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Four months ago, Jamila Best was still in college. Two months ago, she started training to become a teacher. Monday morning, the 21-year-old will walk into a DC classroom, take a deep breath and dive
into one of the most difficult assignments in public education. Best is one of 4,500 Teach for America recruits placed in public schools this year after five weeks of summer preparation. The quickly expanding organization says that the fast track enables talented young instructors to be matched with schools that badly need them — and the Obama administration agrees. This month, Teach for America won a $50 million federal grant that will help the program nearly double in the next four
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Opinion: Obama Needs to Change Direction on Education
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During the presidential campaign, Obama criticized No Child Left Behind. "Don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of the year preparing him to fill out a few bubbles in a
standardized test," he said. He pledged to lead the nation in a different direction. We are still waiting. The president and his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, have adopted policies that have had far more in common with the previous administration than expected.
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Teaching the Teachers Lessons on Culture
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One student says an eighth-grade teacher in Roxbury, MA, scolded classmates for speaking Spanish among themselves, exclaiming: "You are in America; we speak English here." Another reports that a
Jamaica Plain teacher had little to say when a boy pulled off a Muslim girl's head scarf. And in history lessons on the civil rights movement, students say, teachers across the city often overlook the role of Latinos, the largest student group in Boston.
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Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million School, Costliest in the Nation
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Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic
presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever. The K-12 complex to house 4,200 students has raised eyebrows across the country as the creme de la creme of "Taj Mahal" schools, $100 million-plus campuses boasting both architectural panache and deluxe amenities.
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Less Than Half of U.S. Black Males Graduate
High School, Report Shows
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Yes We Can: The 2010 Schott 50 State Report on Black Males in Public Education reveals that the overall 2007-08 high school graduation rate for Black males in the United States was only 47 percent. Half of the states have graduation rates for Black male students below the national average.
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