Education Program
This Week in Education
September 26 - October 3, 2007
Do Charter Schools Improve Behavior?
Several studies have shown that, on average, they [charter schools] don't raise student achievement more than regular public schools with students of similar backgrounds. Yet many charters, even some with mediocre academic records, get lots of applications. What is going on?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100200725.html?hpid=news-col-blog
Achievement Trap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families
This report chronicles the experiences of high-achieving lower-income students during elementary school, high school, college, and graduate school. While some results are hopeful, other findings suggest that there are far fewer lower-income students achieving at the highest levels than there should be, they disproportionately fall out of the high-achieving group during elementary and high school, they rarely rise into the ranks of high achievers during those periods, and far too few ever graduate from college or go on to graduate school.
http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/jkcf_web/Documents/Achievement%20Trap.pdf
Our Schools Must Do Better
The U.S. needs a wholesale transformation of the public school system from the broken-down postwar model of the past 50 or 60 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/opinion/02herbert.html?ex=1191988800&en=1aadcab9679a7fd7&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Dispute on Private School Payments Heard
Taxpayers shouldn't be asked to pick up the cost of private schooling for special education children who don't first give public schools a chance, New York City's top appeals lawyer told the Supreme Court Monday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/01/AR2007100100770.html
S.C. pioneers in single-gender classes
David Chadwell believes boys and girls can get through the awkward middle school years better when they're separated, learning in classrooms tailored to the learning styles of each gender. As the country's first and only statewide coordinator of single-gender education, Chadwell is helping to make South Carolina a leader among public schools that offer such programs. About 70 schools offer the program now, and the goal is to have programs available to every child within five years, he said.
http://dwb.newsobserver.com/24hour/nation/story/3710063p-13142343c.html
Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools, Findings from the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2005-06
This First Look report uses data from the 2005–06 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) to examine a range of issues dealing with school crime and safety, such as the frequency of school crime and violence, disciplinary actions, and school practices related to the prevention and reduction of crime and safety. SSOCS is the primary source of school-level data on crime and safety for NCES. Since 1999, it has been administered three times to the principals of a nationally representative sample of public primary, middle, high, and combined schools.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007361
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