Friday Churn: Wrong track?
May 28th, 2011The report, from the National Center on Education and the Economy, sets out an agenda for improving American schools based on efforts undertaken in those countries whose students score the highest on international assessments.
Among the steps: less frequent standardized testing and a greater emphasis on the professionalization of teaching.
“We’ve been unwilling to pay teachers at the level of engineers, Marc Tucker, NCEE president, told Education Week. We’ve been solving our problems of teacher shortages by waiving the very low standards that we have. We have been frustrated by low student performance, and now, we’re blaming our teachers for that, which makes it even harder to get good people.”
Read the EdWeek article and see the full report, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.
A community campaign will keep Jefferson Countys outdoor lab program open through 2011-12, district officials announced Thursday.
Closing the program, a popular rite of passage for Jeffco sixth-graders since the early 1960s, was part of a budget reduction package announced by the states largest school district in March.
But supporters of the Mt. Evans and
