- Responding to the cheating scandal that erupted this fall, New York is taking bold action: The state has proposed that teachers not be allowed to grade their own students’ exams. What’s next? Ensuring that correct answers are taken off the walls of classrooms on the day of the exam?
- When it comes to market share, Ohio is dominating the charter-school arena. According to a recently released National Alliance for Public Charter Schools paper, the Buckeye State claims four of the top twelve cities for charters. New Orleans, with 70 percent market share, takes top honors.
- Keeping track of changes to the Harkin-Enzi proposal during markup is tedious, tricky, and only a little bit dizzying. (Did Rand Paul propose seventy-two or seventy-three amendments? How many turnaround models are now being floated? Four? Seven?) Luckily, Ed Sector and Politics K-12 are doing the legwork for you.
- Students in the Mountaineer State, put down those hoes and tillers. The West Virginia Department of Education is now investigating the feasibility of extending year-round schooling to all of the state’s public school students.
- A love triangle has emerged in the publication world: Amazon.com is now working directly with authors to get books out to Internet audiences—cutting publishers out of the fold. Imagine an education world without the textbook oligarchy.
- We often compare teaching to the medical profession. But what would this comparison look like flipped on its head?
- It’s official: Thirty-five states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico have applied for a chunk of the $500 million in RTTT-version-three funding.
