Ahead in Ed – October

October is National Learning Disabilities Awareness Month. For resources, click here.

Must Reads – New Initiative to Focus on Principals

The George W. Bush Institute has announced the Alliance to Reform Education Leadership, a partnership between schools districts, universities and foundations focused on improving the performance of school principals. Source: Associated Press

Must Reads – Teachers Transform School in Massachussets

One in three students dropped out of Brockton High School in Massachusetts and only one quarter passed statewide exams until a group of teachers at the school “persuaded administrators to let them organize a schoolwide campaign that involved reading and writing lessons into every class in all subjects, including gym.” Now the school, with 4,100 [...]

Ahead in Ed – October 2

Hundreds of thousands of Americans from across the country will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the One Nation march to help “put America back to work and to pull America back together.”

One Nation March Saturday Focuses on Education, Jobs

By Cynthia McCabe Soccer practice can wait. The leaves will be there next weekend for raking. Everything can be put on hold for a day to march on Washington on behalf of the new civil rights movement — jobs and education for all. Tens of thousands are expected to converge on the National Mall Saturday [...]

Ahead in Ed – September 30

NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen will appear on FOX News to discuss education reform and tenure live at 10:30 AM ET and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel will appear on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell at 1:00 pm to discuss NEA, education reform and the Priority Schools Campaign.

Ahead in Ed – October 1

Applications are due for the PolarTREC study tours to the Arctic and Antarctica where K-12 educators work with polar researchers to gain hands-on field experiences with the goal of advancing polar science education and understanding.

Must Reads – Rural Teachers

Some rural school districts are increasing efforts to recruit teachers familiar with the small communities. In Missouri for example, the Ozarks Teacher Corps provides education school students $4,000 of annual scholarships in exchange for a three-year commitment to work in rural school districts after graduation. Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Must Reads – GOP Congress Would Cut Education Funding

President Obama told a crowd in New Mexico that if Republicans win the majority in November, their priority would be to retain tax cuts for the wealthy. To make up for the tax cuts, Obama said they’d have “to cut back our education spending by 20 percent and eliminate about 200,000 Head Start programs and [...]

The Waiting For Superman Paradox

By Kevin Hart In the opening minutes of the new education “reform” documentary Waiting For Superman, director Davis Guggenheim has a moment of candor about the charter schools he hails as a panacea for urban education — he admits that most of them are not exactly getting extraordinary results. It’s that admission, educators say, that proves that [...]

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