NOTE: The California Education News Roundup will break for the winter holiday season. Look for our return on January 3, 2005. Season’s Greetings to all.
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, December 23, 2004:
Philadelphia schools experiment seen as model CNN
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) — A year ago, Melissa Cosby could have been a poster child […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, December 22, 2004:
States Rate Poorly on Ensuring Veteran Teachers Are Qualified By Linda Jacobson/Ed Week
States may be demanding high standards of their newly certified teachers, but they’re doing a poor job of requiring their veteran teachers to get the training necessary to meet the “highly qualified” provisions of the […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, December 21, 2004:
Benefits, drawbacks seen in gender-separate classes Half of local school’s students participate By Chris Moran/San Deigo Union-Tribune
OTAY MESA – It’s not called segregation at San Ysidro High School. No one has to be in an all-girls or all-boys class. But about 900 of the school’s […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, December 20, 2004:
Underperforming schools — new front in today’s struggle for civil rights Opinion by Arlene Ackerman/San Francisco Chronicle Arlene Ackerman is the superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District.
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" — Langston Hughes. […]
Weekly Recap for December 13-19, 2004:
A phantom commission Editorial/San Francisco Chronicle (Wednesday)
TWO YEARS AGO, the Legislature created the Quality Education Commission to identify the ingredients of a high-quality education in California — and what it would cost to provide such an education to all students in the state. You would think that the leaders […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, December 17, 2004:
Our dear friend Neil Schmidt died yesterday. Neil died as the result of going into anaphylactic shock after being stung by a bee at his home. Neil served as superintendent of Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in the 1990s. Since retiring, he has taught at UCLA’s Principal […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, December 16, 2004:
Hiding the cost of good schools Governor Refuse To Appoint Task Force Editorial/San Jose Mercury News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear to prefer ignorance when it comes to paying for public schools. How else to explain his refusal to appoint members to a commission charged with determining what […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, December 15, 2004:
A phantom commission Editorial/San Francisco Chronicle
TWO YEARS AGO, the Legislature created the Quality Education Commission to identify the ingredients of a high-quality education in California — and what it would cost to provide such an education to all students in the state. You would think that […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, December 14, 2004:
Mining Scores for Nuances in Improvement Though It Has Critics, New Tool Catches On Among Schools, States By Jay Mathews/Washington Post
Most days, whenever he has a free moment, Mark Twain Elementary School Principal Scott Ebbrecht can be found peering at the screen of the gray computer […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, December 13, 2004:
Riordan Takes a Back Seat as State Education Secretary By Duke Helfand/Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Eager to close California’s gaping budget hole last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his closest advisors quietly cut a deal to save $2 billion in education spending. But one person was […]