The Courier-Journal reports that the Bullitt County board of education has approved plans for designs to add new learning centers in its three high schools. The new digitally-based centers would be targeted at helping kids who are not progressing in traditional classrooms and will also be used for other programs ranging from advanced course support…
Education Week’s Politics K-12 Blog picked up on President Obama’s claim in his State of the Union message that raising the minimum high school dropout age to 18 increases high school graduation. I don’t know where the president got that notion, but my very straightforward analysis of graduation rates in states that have had age…
On problems with education research, state education rankings and teacher preparation Do you really think Kentucky improved 20 places in state rankings for education recently? Well, you better think again. On January 12, 2012 Education Week released its annual report on education across the United States, known as Quality Counts (subscription). Kentucky’s education boosters wasted…
In honor of the national School Choice Week, here are some video clips from today’s charter school rally in Frankfort. Kentucky is one of only nine states that do not have these innovative public school options for students and parents. It requires legislation to create charter schools here, and the crowd attending the rally clearly…
This video by Reason.tv features highlights from the School Choice Week kickoff in New Orleans. “People tend to focus more on adult issues than kid issues…if we focus on children…we wouldn’t be arguing about the dollars…” We need school choice in Kentucky.
On problems with education research, state education rankings and teacher preparation I wrote a couple of days ago about my concerns with an annual education rite of passage – Education Week’s latest report on education across the United States, known as Quality Counts (subscription). Part 1 of my discussion addressed concerns about Quality Counts continuing…
Education Week’s “Curriculum Matters Blog” ran an article as I was leaving for a conference last week about “NCLB Waivers Could Undermine Graduation Rates, Group Contends.” The Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington, DC claims that if the graduation rate requirement in NCLB is set aside, that Kentucky’s own graduation rate accountability plan would only…
Wants scores in high exclusion states suppressed Add Florida’s Commissioner of Education to the growing list of those crying foul (such as discussed here for learning disabled students and here for students still learning English) over high exclusion rates of students with learning disabilities from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Kentucky led the nation…
On problems with education research, state education rankings and teacher preparation An annual rite of passage occurred again on January 12, 2012 when Education Week released its annual report on education across the United States, known as Quality Counts (subscription). Kentucky’s education boosters wasted little time jumping on the new state rankings in the report,…
I am very happy to see Apple really pick up the ball in the aging textbook industry. As you may have heard in the news, Apple has released iBooks 2 & iBooks Author applications that will allow you to create text-books to be used on the iPad! I have already downloaded the app and plan…