A first look at the most important education news from the weekend and this morning:
Fordham's latest
"A modest school voucher led to outsize results," by Adam Emerson, Choice Words |
School districts are experimenting with new approaches to ELL instruction as achievement standards are ratcheted up. (Wall Street Journal)
Reuters profiled the presidential candidates’ split over the role of the private sector in education.
The Wall Street Journal admonished efforts in California to remove student achievement from teacher evaluations.
Hawaii has made progress in implementing its Race to the Top promises, but federal funding may still be in jeopardy as the state has failed to reach an agreement with the teacher union on teacher evaluations. (Politics K-12)
The Ohio Department of Education may increase oversight of districts following the state’s data-tampering scandal. (Columbus Dispatch)
