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Education Week: Duncan's Call for School Turnarounds Sparks Debate
Interviews with many experts on what it takes to turnaround a school.
Best Evidence Encylopedia
Presents reliable, unbiased reviews of research-proven educational programs; from Johns Hopkins University.
Amazon.com: Richard F. Elmore: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Richard Elmore is quoted as saying, "Teaching is not rocket science. It is, in fact, far more complex and demanding work than rocket science."
ICLS 2004: embracing diversity in ... - Google Books
Includes article by Eric Klopfer et al. on value of programming in education.
Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform
Fascinating, very readable critique of our approach to school reform that ignores that underlying issue of poverty and how it constrains and influences what can happen in schools.
Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas
The work and ideas of thirty-five
public school superintendents who came
together as a community of learners to create
a new vision for public education in Texas
No Dream Denied
This report summarizes the findings of the No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children - Full Report.
See especially the section, "Organizing Schools for Teaching and Learning Success."
State Education Reforms (SER) - Welcome to the Website on State Education Reforms
Draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, compiles and disseminates data on state-level education reform efforts in four areas.
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draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, compiles and disseminates data on state-level education reform efforts in four areas
Bridging the Second Digital Divide: What Can Sociologists of Education Contribute? | EdLab
From EdLab at Teachers College. A role for sociologists in bridging the divide?
Up Close, Rhee's Image Less Clear - washingtonpost.com
For journalists and pundits who follow education, Rhee's narrative has elements that are irresistible. A slight, young Korean American woman with no big-city school leadership experience is plucked from the nonprofit world by a reform-minded mayor in June 2007 to fire bad teachers, face down their union and take on hidebound bureaucrats, all in the name of turning around a system with a legacy of failure. The stories are not uniformly glowing, but they generally depict Rhee as a gutsy, gritty agent of change driven to turn around the District's schools.
Rhee Tackles Classroom Challenge - TIME
Michelle Rhee, the new, bold-talking chancellor running the District of Columbia Public Schools system.
Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
Scott McLeod at K12 Online Conference 2008 | Leading the Change.
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