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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, October 31, 2008
Connecting schools and colleges: More rhetoric than reality
By Michael Kirst/Chronicle of Higher Education
Most of the nation’s eighth graders aspire to college. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them will not realize their ambition to complete their higher education […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, October 30, 2008
Time for a radical makeover, says study on CA school finance system
By Marguerite Rigoglioso/Stanford Educator
California’s K–12 educational system has been in decline for the past twenty years, but simply throwing money at the problem or tinkering around […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, October 29, 2008
California education leaders told to brace for big budget cuts
Educators say Arnold Schwarzenegger told them to prepare for immediate cuts of $2 billion to $4 billion. They say the governor also plans to keep pushing for a sales tax hike. By Evan Halper and Nancy […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Budget crunch puts schools on cutting board
Column by Dan Walters/Sacramento Bee
The state finds itself – predictably – in another budget crunch. The smoke-and-mirrors budget that the Legislature finally passed and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a month ago assumed revenue numbers that were out of […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, October 27, 2008
U.S. dropout picture is grim, report says
The U.S. is the only industrialized country where youths are less likely than their parents to earn a high school diploma, it says. Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington — Your child is less likely to graduate from high school […]
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Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, October 24, 2008
‘No Child Left Behind’s’ call to arms
The law shouldn’t give military recruiters access to students’ personal information. Editorial/Los Angeles Times
Fixing the No Child Left Behind Act has so far proved tricky, and Congress abandoned the effort after […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, October 23, 2008
Why we educate our children
Opinion by Bruce Fuller/New York Times Bruce Fuller is a professor of education and public policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Barack Obama seized on Bob Schieffer’s final question of the Oct. 15 debate, asking how the […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Teacher hiring
"Trends in California teacher demand: A county and regional perspective." Report Roundup/Education Week
California’s demand for teachers over the next decade will not affect its diverse counties in uniform ways, says a report that adds a new twist to the debate about the […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The high school dropout’s economic ripple effect
Mayors go door to door, personally encouraging students to stay in the game for their own good — and for the Sake of the City By Gary Fields/Wall Street Journal
As the financial meltdown and economic slump hold the national […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, October 20, 2008
Growth data for teachers under review
By Stephen Sawchuk/Ed Week
As states’ information-collection systems grow more sophisticated, officials are grappling with where to draw the line on how “value added” data on teachers can be used. Tennessee law permits the use of such data for teacher […]