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This Week in Education
August 9 - August 15, 2007
Will new NCLB reflect 21st-century skills?
The chairman of the House education committee, says he hopes to steer a bill renewing the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) through the House this fall, and one of the key changes he plans to propose is incentives for states and schools to develop more rigorous standards that reflect the need for 21st-century skills.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7296
Little benefit found to year-round schools: Going to class all year long doesn't add up to learning more, U.S. research suggests
The vast majority of young children who attend year-round schools do not learn more than their peers at schools with traditional calendars, a new study has found.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070811.SCHOOL11/TPStory/Education
Johnson leaves behind a district pushed forward
As she enters her last full week as Memphis' school superintendent, Carol Johnson said she is confident she is leaving the 115,000-student district in better shape than when she came.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/education/article/0,2673,MCA_22897_5660417,00.html
Rhee raps D.C. schools 'bureaucracy'
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee yesterday called the city's struggling school system a "faceless bureaucracy," adding that it does not need to augment its 11,500-member work force.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070807/METRO/108070064/1001
Neighborhoods' Effect On Grades Challenged:Moving Students Out of Poor Inner Cities Yields Little, Studies of HUD Vouchers Say
Many social reformers have long said that low academic achievement among inner-city children cannot be improved significantly without moving their families to better neighborhoods, but new reports released today that draw on a unique set of data throw cold water on that theory.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081300966.html?hpid=sec-education
Citing Learning Slumps, Mayor Presents Plan for Low-Performing Middle Schools
Calling middle school students the hardest to reach, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that he would direct an additional $5 million to about 50 of the city’s lowest-performing middle schools and appoint a high-level administrator to devise professional development programs for middle school teachers and principals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/nyregion/thecity/14middle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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