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posted by: Alix
| December 14, 2010, 11:16 am
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According to a new poll released today by the Associated Press and Stanford University, an overwhelming majority believe that it is necessary to fire bad teachers, but in contrast believe that teachers are paid too little.
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posted by: Alix
| December 13, 2010, 12:00 pm
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We hear a lot about accountability from education reformers these days. Unfortunately, numerous methods of how to measure teacher effectiveness are constantly challenged. While no system of evaluation is perfect, preliminary findings of a recent study by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have shown that the "value-added" system along with student surveys are the most reliable system for rating educators.
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posted by: Alix
| December 10, 2010, 10:16 am
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This week, an elementary school in Compton, California is receiving national attention after a group of parents banded together to force improvements at the failing institution. Yelling "yes we can!" and "si se puede!" a busload of parents on Tuesday became the first in California to try to force reforms at their children's school using a new law designed to help parents take back schools.
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posted by: Alix
| December 09, 2010, 11:07 am
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American Students are falling behind according to new international rankings released this week. The Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA is a system of international assessments that measures 15-year-olds' performance in reading literacy, math literacy, and science literacy every three years. In 2009, the U.S. and 64 other countries and education systems participated in PISA with a specific focus on reading literacy. The scores have illustrated some interesting and disturbing trends for student performance in key subjects compared to European and Asian students.
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posted by: Jill
| December 08, 2010, 01:52 pm
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This week, AAE announced the first round of scholarship recipients to receive complimentary registrations to the 18th Annual California Charter Schools Conference.
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