Wanted: Good principals
In Lacking Leaders, Fordham looks at how five urban districts recruit, select and place principals. Even in “pioneering districts,” needy schools often lose out on “leaders with the potential to be...
View ArticleOverprotective parents raise ‘lazy’ teens
Overinvolved parents are raising “lazy,” unmotivated teen-age boys, writes therapist Adam Price in the Wall Street Journal. Parents complain their children — especially their sons — aren’t achieving...
View ArticleBureaucratic creep threatens charters
Bureaucratic “creep” is creeping up on charter schools, writes Jenn Hatfield on AEIdeas. Charters are supposed to be freed from the usual rules and red tape, but the bureaucrats keep trying to...
View ArticleShould charters have to ‘backfill’ seats?
Charter schools should be required to “back-fill” their “empty seats,” argues a Wall Street Journal op-ed. It’s aimed at New York City’s Success Academy network, which posts very high scores, but...
View ArticleLos Angeles explores all-charter district
Los Angeles Unified is exploring conversion to an all-charter school district, but the school board’s real goal seems to be gaining more autonomy to compete with expanding charters, reports the Los...
View ArticleHow much autonomy do teachers want?
Nearly three out of four teachers say they have a “great deal” of control over how and what they teach, but that’s down from 82 percent in 2003-04, concludes a U. S. Education Department survey,...
View ArticleTaking the ‘self’ out of self-empowerment
We’ve Had 100 Years Of Progressive Education And The World’s Getting Worse, writes Jordan Shapiro, a fellow at Sesame Street Workshop’s Joan Ganz Clooney Center, in Forbes. “A century of...
View ArticleEngland goes charter
England’s Conservative government wants to turn all 20,000 public schools into academies, their equivalent of charter schools, by 2022, write Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske of Brookings. However, a...
View ArticleFinnish teachers feel ‘rushed’ in U.S. schools
Photo: Rex Arbogast/AP When Finnish teachers work in U.S. schools, they complain of being tired, rushed and mistrusted, writes Timothy D. Walker in The Atlantic. Satu Muja teaches six classes a day of...
View ArticlePrincipal raises class size, adds counselors
School 27 is one of the Indianapolis schools given autonomy in a pilot program. Photo: Alan Petersime/Chalkbeat Given power over her school budget by Indianapolis Public Schools, Principal Tihesha...
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