Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
USA Today’s ed board and Secretary of Education Spellings debate No Child Left Behind’s supplemental services (extra tutoring) provisions. They are both sort of right. The ed board is right that quality and oversight in the program is completely haphazard. The Secretary is right that school districts are dragging their feet. But, solving the Secretary’s …
From NYC, via the NYT, more bad news about supplemental services (SES), the free tutoring students in low-performing schools are supposed to get under No Child Left Behind. Quick everyone to their bunker! Again lost in the back and forth about for-profits in education the issue of quality and whether these provisions make much sense …
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Some buzz about a letter the Department of Education sent to Illinois officials about supplemental services there. Read it for yourself here and then decide what you think, or continue with some of the wild speculation, your choice!
Doug Mesecar takes a look at the Supplemental Services provisions of No Child Left Behind and implications (pdf).
In case you missed it, the Charter School Growth Fund is on the move. Big impact. New citizenship study from AEI. And if you haven’t checked out Big Citizenship from Alan Khazei yet, you should. There is a “Waiting for Superman” social action campaign. And, another “Waiting for Superman” social campaign is going strong, “Done …
I really enjoy Mike Petrilli as a colleague and friend but when it comes to policy calls he’s like a teenage driver with a disconcerting tendency to over-correct in every turn. First he was enthusiastically for No Child Left Behind, then enthusiastically against it. First for a big federal role in education, then one of its biggest skeptics. …
I haven’t written much about the President’s FY09 (and thankfully last) budget request released Monday. It’s mostly disappointing. All there really is to say is that while the President keeps challenging Congress to pass a reauthorized No Child Left Behind bill he keeps doing things like this that are spectacularly unhelpful. It’s clear that while …
The after-school research debate continues. A new study (pdf) making the rounds up on Capitol Hill, purports to show the wrongness of the 2005 Mathematica study (pdf) on federally funded after school programs. Ed Week’s Viadero reports here. There is at once less and more here than meets the eye.In the less department: The basic …
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First evaluation of NCLB’s public school choice and supplemental services provisions is out (pdf). Interpret with caution, it’s solid work but a pretty thin evidence base.
I’ve been meaning to write about supplemental services (publicly funded tutoring under No Child Left Behind) in the wake of the Secretary’s letter to the chiefs a few weeks back but haven’t had time. In sum, that whole policy needs a lot of work from the fundamentals underpinning the initiative through the implementation and I …
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