Children and Youth;Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor
A centerpiece of Massachusetts' public education reform agenda is to ensure all children benefit from excellent teaching. The state's $250 million Race to the Top plan includes strategies for attracting and retaining a quality workforce, instituting a new statewide framework for teacher evaluation, and ensuring high-quality educators in high-needs districts. Achieving the state's goals begins by preparing all teachers to enter their classrooms with the tools needed to be successful. This requires a strong foundation in both theoretical and applied practice. A pervasive challenge is that many teacher preparation programs operate in isolation, removed from the realities of working in today's schools. A new model for teacher preparation is needed, based on strong partnerships between institutions of higher education and school districts that allow for extensive field experiences where teacher candidates develop their craft in the settings where they will ultimately work.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States;North America / United States (Northeastern) / Massachusetts
Political leaders hope to act soon to renew and fix the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, also known as No Child Left Behind). In this important paper, Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Executive Vice President Michael J. Petrilli identify 10 big issues that must be resolved in order to get a bill across the finish line, and explore the major options under consideration for each one. Should states be required to adopt academic standards tied to college and career readiness? Should the new law provide greater flexibility to states and districts? These are just a few of the areas discussed. Finn and Petrilli also present their own bold yet "reform realist" solutions for ESEA.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics represent a sea change in standards-based reform and their implementation is the movement's next -- and greatest -- challenge. Yet, while most states have now set forth implementation plans, these tomes seldom address the crucial matter of cost. Putting a Price Tag on the Common Core: How Much Will Smart Implementation Cost? estimates the implementation cost for each of the forty-five states (and the District of Columbia) that have adopted the Common Core State Standards and shows that costs naturally depend on how states approach implementation. Authors Patrick J. Murphy of the University of San Francisco and Elliot Regenstein of EducationCounsel LLC illustrate this with three models:
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States
Children and Youth;Education and Literacy
This report provides an update on overall county conditions and answers key questions about Clark County, Ohio's school age population.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio / Clark County
Children and Youth;Education and Literacy
This report provides an update on overall county conditions and answers key questions about Clark County, Ohio's school age population.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio / Clark County
Children and Youth;Education and Literacy
This report provides an update on overall county conditions and answers key questions about Clark County, Ohio's school age population.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio / Clark County
Education and Literacy;Employment and Labor;Health
The current value of the federal minimum wage -- $7.25 per hour -- is often compared to the cost of living, the average wage in the economy, or the productivity of the average worker. By all of these benchmarks, the current federal minimum is well below its historical levels. But the current minimum wage looks even worse when compared to two kinds of purchases strongly associated with a middle-class standard of living or the ability to move up to the middle class: health insurance and a college degree.
August 1970
Geographic Focus:
Community and Economic Development;Education and Literacy;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. Substantially greater progress could be made in alleviating many of our most serious and complex social problems if nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public were brought together around a common agenda to create collective impact. Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011.
August 1970
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