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California's API, a one-number measure of school quality that only reflected test scores, will soon be obsolete. The process for judging schools in the future is currently a topic for discussion and the public is invited to provide its opinion.
This school year will be full of new experiences as educators and parents alike start implementing their school district's Local Control Accountability Plan and reflecting on how to improve it in the years to come.
Mothers' Day was officially added to the calendar 100 years ago. Moms aren't paid to be moms. If you had to pay for them, what would it cost? Well, it depends...
A lower passage threshold for parcel taxes would significantly expand the number of districts able to muster the political support to pass them... But there's a problem. On its own, the plan stinks. There is an alternative.
In the course of a public K-12 education, how much money will be invested in the average California student? How much does a basic, public K-12 education actually cost? Do you know? Can you guess?
I recently sent a brusque email reply to a colleague. Yes, of course that was a dumb thing to do. But then again, she had it coming, right? How dare she! Indignation is a powerful emotion. It brings out our inner knuckle-dragging primate, primed for a fight.
The EdPrezi is an interactive, graphical view of the contents of Ed100, which summarizes the Big Ideas that compete for prominence regarding how to change education. You can "zoom out" to see the big picture, "zoom in" to see summaries of particular ideas, and "link out" for more details. It is one
The proper measure for the success of schools is EACH. Each student, each teacher, each class, each day.
What would happen if you cemented an internet-connected computer into a wall in an impoverished area of an Indian city? Enterprising education researcher Sugata Mitra decided to find out.
A focus on character is nothing new; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasized it in his "I Have a Dream" speech, for example. But schools are pretty inconsistent in their treatment of character as part of the scope of education. There are some approaches...
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