Archives

Filter

The Haberman Foundation

Last week I had the distinct pleasure and honor to attend a meeting of the Haberman Foundation’s Advisory Board. The meeting provided a snapshot of all of their good activities and it also afforded me an opportunity to meet with some exceptional ...
Parents Show Strong Interest in School Involvement

An October 23, 2008 online Education Week article looks at parents and school involvement. When speaking with parent, most of them will respond that it is important for them to be involved in their child’s high school education. A sad fact seems to be ...
The Leo Problem

Today’s edition of EdNews has an interview with Daniel Koretz by Michael F. Shaughnessy that takes a look at educational testing and more specifically an issue he calls the “LEO Effect.” Koretz describes the LEO effect in the following way:...
Voter's Guide

The Center for Education Reform has established a Voter's Guide page on their website. Here is their explanation of the page and its information: "The Center for Education Reform's election year analyses are typically limited to taking the temperature...
Students, Reading and the Content Areas

Professors William and Sutton Flynt address the issue of motivating students to read in science, social studies and math. <“Motivating Students to Read in the Content Classroom: Six Evidence-Based Principles” by William Brozo and Sutton Flynt in T...
Leadership

In an October 15, 2008 Education Week article, author Lew Smith writes about observations he made regarding successful school principals. He identifies 9 characteristics shared by these principals. He writes: “From 2000 to 2008, I had the chance to pon...
Teacher Leadership

Information for this blog was taken from “Transforming Teacher Leadership: A Conversation with Douglas Reeves” by Patti Kinney in Principal Leadership, October 2008 (Vol. 9, #2, p. 20-24). Here are some of the main points made in this interview by Mr....
A Measured Approach

The Fall 2008 issue of the American Educator contains an article by Professor Daniel Koretz, “A Measured Approach.” Professor Koretz provides a clear and concise analysis of value added models for measuring teacher effectiveness. He believes that ...
ELLs benefit as much as EFLs from struggling reader interventions

A recent study in the Journal of Learning Disabilities indicates that English Language Learners benefit just as much from reading interventions as struggling readers who speak English as a first language. You can read more about this study by clicking ...
DI & The What Works Clearinghouse

If you are part of the Direct Instruction world you were a bit shocked when What Works Clearinghouse issued a report that despite over 40 years of research (40 years of research that has been accepted and published), they could not identify what they labe...
DI & The What Works Clearinghouse

If you are part of the Direct Instruction world you were a bit shocked when What Works Clearinghouse issued a report that despite over 40 years of research (40 years of research that has been accepted and published), they could not identify what they labe...

RSN™ Login