Posted on February 27th, 2009 by jkelly
Beverly Hall, Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools and SMHC Task Force Member, was named the American Association of School Administrators’ 2009 National Superintendent of the Year. Hall has been at the helm of Atlanta Public Schools since 1999, making her one of the longest-serving superintendents of an urban school district. Previously, she was state district [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2009 by arodden
Education reform in Ohio may get a major boost. Democratic Governor Ted Strickland seeks to implement a major state initiative that concentrates on what a state can do in the area of strategic management of human capital. Under Strickland’s proposal, the state’s role in evaluating teachers would expand into rating teacher effectiveness, a responsibility currently [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by jkelly
This piece from the Associated Press highlights President Obama’s hopes for a larger federal role in education. Obama and Duncan’s vision centers on better teacher training and data systems to track student achievement. The bill includes a $5 billion fund to reward states and school districts that demonstrate notable improvement in boosting teacher effectiveness and [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2009 by admin
This post was contributed by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of online teaching opportunities. She invites your feedback at hollymccarthy12 at gmail dot com:
As talk of the contents of the latest version of the stimulus package reaches a fever pitch, it is important to closely examine the impact it will have on the [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 by arodden
A new federal report on teacher quality asserts that teachers who enter teaching through nontraditional routes have the same impact on student performance as teachers from traditional teaching programs. Responding to the perpetually hot debate on the effectiveness of alternative teacher certification programs, such as Teach for America and The New Teacher Project, An Evaluation [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by arodden
In this Opinion piece in Education Week, Governor Tim Pawlenty and Former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. discuss the measures adopted by the SMHC Case Study School Districts – Boston; Chicago; Fairfax County, Va.; Long Beach, Calif., and New York City – to transform disordered human resource practices and improve recruiting and hiring practices. According [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2009 by jkelly
SMHC Co-Director Allan Odden, with co-author Sarah Archibald, has just published a book perfect for these challenging budget times. Doubling Student Performance … and finding the resources to do it (Corwin Press) describes the strategies dozens of districts and schools around the country have used to produce dramatic improvements in student learning (what the book [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by arodden
A new report from the National Staff Development Council shows that American teachers continue to have few opportunities for effective, on-the-job training, despite high levels of participation in professional development activities and an increase in enrollment by new teachers in induction and mentorship programs. Professional development activities tend to occur primarily in isolation, instead of [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by arodden
A long and fascinating article in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday addresses many issues related to the current economic stress the United States is experiencing. Towards the end of the article, a new book is referenced that argues that America’s emphasis on a broad high school education beginning in the early 20th century [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by arodden
This story from Education Week profiles the endeavors of select organizations and foundations to recruit professionals with backgrounds in management, education, law, and public policy to work in school systems’ central offices. These groups believe that smart managers are as integral to turning around failing schools as improved methods of teacher and principal recruitment and [...]
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