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Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to step into one of the most contentious and costly areas of special education law by accepting a case involving a parent's efforts to seek public reimbursement for a private school placement of his child. In this article, the author talks about the case entitled, "New York City Board of Education vs. Tom…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Learning Disabilities, Court Litigation, Special Education
Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2008
The reading coaches, professional development programs, and instructional materials that are the cornerstones of the Reading First program and are credited with improving instruction in struggling schools may be threatened by a deep cut included in the 2008 federal budget, officials and observers say. The reduction of more than 60 percent--from…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2008
As a demonstration site designated by Oregon as a prime example of "response to intervention" in action, the Tigard-Tualatin district has had to pare visiting groups down to no more than 25 people. During the last few visits, 50 people descended on the district just outside Portland at one time. As educators in Tigard-Tualatin and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Student Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2008
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. Since the adoption of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the task of establishing data systems for tracking students' year-to-year achievement gains has fallen…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Unions
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2008
Should schools be held primarily responsible for improving student achievement, or do they need help from health and social programs to ensure their students' success? Two sets of prominent educators and policy leaders released statements last June 2008 emphasizing different answers to that question. Both groups acted with the same purpose: to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Political Campaigns, Public Education
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2009
Fourth grade math scores stagnated for the first time in two decades on a prominent nationwide test, prompting calls for new efforts to improve teacher content knowledge and stirring discussion of the potential benefits of setting more-uniform academic standards across states. The results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, National Competency Tests, Grade 8
Klein, Alyson – Education Week, 2009
The national teachers' unions are nervously eyeing a provision in a Senate version of the health-care overhaul now working its way through Congress that they say could ultimately squeeze medical benefits for educators. The language would tax insurance companies and plan administrators that offer what the measure defines as high-cost health…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Unions, Health Insurance, Federal Legislation
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
Leaders in a handful of school districts are pondering the idea of "front-loading" teacher compensation by paying novices more than they would typically earn under traditional salary schedules. Boosting new teachers' salaries, officials in Denver, the District of Columbia, and New York City contend, would increase the applicant pool and…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Human Capital, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Recruitment
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2010
In its fiscal 2011 budget request, the Obama administration has laid out its intention of carrying forward key teacher-effectiveness policies within the economic-stimulus law into the next edition of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In doing so, the budget proposal would invest heavily in competitive grants for new ways of recruiting,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Incentives, Educational Finance
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2009
With 2014 approaching as the deadline by which states must get all their students up to "proficient" levels on state tests, a study released last week by the U.S. Department of Education's top statistics agency suggests that some states may have lowered student-proficiency standards on such tests in recent years. For the 47-state study,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Mathematics Achievement, National Competency Tests, Academic Standards
Klein, Alyson – Education Week, 2009
The eagerly awaited federal guidelines on some $100 billion in stimulus funding for public education aim to pump money out quickly, while giving the U.S. Department of Education leverage to demand improvements from states and districts. But those same states and districts are also warned not to expect the hefty sums for K-12 programs in the…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Public Education, Educational Finance
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
The prospect of sharing in the $100 billion in federal economic-stimulus aid has companies unleashing their sales pitches. Pittsburgh-based Apangea Learning, which offers online one-on-one tutoring, is offering school districts three years' worth of services for the price of two, to "help schools win new federal funding that is part of the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Districts, School Business Officials, Elementary Secondary Education
Cech, Scott J. – Education Week, 2008
Any educator who's ever had to ask a pupil to fix a computer might be surprised to learn that not all students are technologically proficient--or at least not savvy enough to be considered "technologically literate." While that term has no universal definition, the core idea could be boiled down to this: Technologically literate students not only…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Grade 8, Accountability, Technological Literacy
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2007
Elementary school students have a stronger grasp of U.S. history, and what it means to be a knowledgeable citizen, than they did a few years ago, new test results suggest. Part of the reason they are better informed about history and citizenship, some argue, is that they are better readers. That was the view put forward by U.S. Secretary of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, National Competency Tests, Scores
Education Week, 2010
Few in the education field discount the eminently logical idea that teachers should be supported in the continuous improvement of their craft. But as a term for describing ongoing training investments in the teaching force, "professional development" has become both ubiquitous and all but meaningless. Though frequently invoked by…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, Educational Improvement, Teachers
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