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January 2011
Happy New Year from NoDropout.org
Dear friends,
We've learned a lot since launching NoDropouts.org, five months ago:
We've learned that everyone can play a role in the effort to keep students in school.
Shanghai surprises and the American character: Looking inward for success
For the past month, education experts have been trying to better understand Shanghai's surprise success in the annual Program for International Student Assessment — a test given to 15-year-old students across the world, the results of which provide a shorthand assessment of each nation's relative educational achievements.
Education is cumulative — and brick walls are bad
When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared, as one of his top priorities, the turning around of our nation’s 5,000 worst high schools in America, he seems to have missed an obvious point, argues Steve Peha of Teaching That Makes Sense.
Crying wolf? Learning from history?
When the Program for International Student Achievement ranking were released a few weeks ago, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the numbers — which showed U.S. students still lagging behind other nations — were "a wake-up call."
Walt Gardner points out that we've already heard this song.
Can intervention save middle schoolers from "mean tweens"?
"Relational forms of aggression are known to increase during the middle school years..."
... and if that's not the most "no duh" sentence you've ever read in a research abstract, we don't know what is, because let's face it: Everybody knows that "tweens" can be downright mean.
Six things we’d like to hear from Michelle Rhee
For more than a month the education world waited to see where Michelle Rhee, the firebrand former chancellor of the long-suffering D.C. Public Schools system, would hang out her next shingle.
An issue of national importance
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has thrown his support behind interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, interjecting the Obama administration into one of the most important school posts in the country.
EdWeek chat today: Education's new economic reality
School districts across the country are struggling through the nation’s most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, even as they face continued pressure to raise student achievement and improve instruction. Many school officials report having made deep budget cuts to electives and extracurricular activities, summer and after-school programs, and having raised class sizes and laid off teachers and other employees.
How did Baltimore do it?
Baltimore City Schools made national headlines last fall when it announced it had slashed its dropout rate by 56 percent over three years. And unlike other districts, it had done so without leaving black males behind.
When New Haven, Conn. school reform czar Garth Harries heard those results, he shot an email to Baltimore Superintedent Andrés Alonso to ask how he'd done it.