18 States, D.C., Named Race to Top Round 2 Finalists
July 27, 2010 Education Week | Michele McNeil
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan picked 18 states and the District of Columbia to advance to the final round of the Race to the Top competition, where 10 to 15 grants totaling $3.4 billion will be awarded in September to applicants he believes have the boldest, most sustainable plans for education improvements… Read more
Rhee to Dismiss Hundreds of Teachers for Poor Performance
July 23, 2010 Education Week | Stephen Sawchuk
District of Columbia schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee plans to dismiss 302 employees, mostly for poor performance, the chancellor said this morning in an interview… Read more
Many States Adopt National Standards for Their Schools
July 21, 2010 The New York Times | Tamar Lewin
Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks… Read more
Rare attack on Harlem Children’s Zone
July 20, 2010 The Washington Post | Jay Mathews
These days, it is not a stretch to see New York City educator and social reformer Geoffrey Canada as the modern equivalent of Clara Barton, and his Harlem Children’s Zone as groundbreaking as the early Red Cross… Read more
House Panel Votes for Another Year of Race to the Top
July 15, 2010 Education Week | Alyson Klein
Attention state education agencies: Don’t send those Gates-financed consultants home just yet… Read more
Gates Foundation playing pivotal role in changes for education system
July 12, 2010 Education Week | Nick Anderson
Across the country, public education is in the midst of a quiet revolution. States are embracing voluntary national standards for English and math, while schools are paying teachers based on student performance… Read more
What They’re Doing After Harvard
July 10, 2010 The Wall Street Journal | Naomi Schaefer Riley
In the spring of 1989 Wendy Kopp was a senior at Princeton University who had her sights set on being a New York City school teacher. But without a graduate degree in education or a traditional teacher certification, it was nearly impossible to break into the system… Read more
Jobs Bill Collides With Obama Education Agenda
July 2, 2010 Education Week | Alyson Klein
The sharp division between the Obama administration and key congressional Democrats over education policy and priorities may never have been more clear than it was Thursday night when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $800 million from key administration initiatives to help pay for an effort to avert teacher layoffs… Read more
Filmmakers turn their lenses on failing schools
July 1, 2010 USA Today | Greg Toppo
In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth shined a light on global warming, bringing images of collapsing ice sheets and drowning polar bears to multiplexes nationwide. Could 2010 be the year moviegoers get the angry urban parent demanding an end to teacher tenure?… Read more
The $600 billion challenge
June 16, 2010 Fortune | Carol J. Loomis
Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are asking the nation’s billionaires to pledge to give at least half their net worth to charity, in their lifetimes or at death. If their campaign succeeds, it could change the face of philanthropy… Read more
Wages Up, and the Education Gap Grows
June 4, 2010 The New York Times | David Leonhardt
…Here are some details — on the rise in wages, the drop in part-time workers who want to work full-time, the increase in the workweek and the growing gap between unemployment for college graduates and everyone else… Read more
