student achievement

Rick and Becky DuFour

Feature

Professional Learning Communities at Work

Susan McLester

District Administration, September 2012

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blended learning

achievement gap

21st-century learning

at-risk

leadership

student achievement

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Duncan on Reform and Back to School

Submitted by Marion Herbert on Mon, 08/06/2012 - 6:52am

A more well-rounded curriculum with less focus on a single test. Higher academic standards and more difficult classwork. Continued cuts to extracurricular and other activities because of the tough economy.

Associated Press via Boston Globe

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A Mississippi District Further Develops Goals

Submitted by ANGELA PASCOPELLA on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 2:28pm

The Tupelo Public School District is working to develop concrete indicators to measure its progress toward district goals.

djournal.com

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Schools' Timing Suspect in Ohio

Submitted by ANGELA PASCOPELLA on Sun, 07/29/2012 - 10:03am

Columbus City Schools mysteriously withdrew students during the 2009-10 school year who came to school every day.

The Columbia Dispatch (blog)

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Paul Vallas for Sale

Feature

The non-traditional schools chief teams with Cambium to reform struggling districts.

Alan Dessoff

District Administration, July/Aug 2012

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partnerships

repairs

student achievement

Michigan Education Achievement Authority

News Update

John Covington talks about the new organization to improve the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools in Michigan.

Courtney Williams

District Administration, July/Aug 2012

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student achievement

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Dropout Prevention Program Proves its Economic Value

News Update

Community in Schools not only increases high school graduation rates, but creates more than $11 of economic benefit for the communities it serves.

Marion Herbert

District Administration, July/Aug 2012

Tags:

low-income

student achievement

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Reform Strategy Going Strong

News Update

This Portfolio Strategy has tripled in size in the last five years.

Marion Herbert

District Administration, July/Aug 2012

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student achievement

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Hawaii Education Experiment Gets Uneven Outcome

Submitted by Marion Herbert on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 10:47pm

In 2010 the Hawaii Department of Education formed two “zones of school innovation,”one on the Leeward Coast of Oahu and the other in the Kau-Pahoa region of Hawaii island, in hopes of providing the state’s lowest-performing schools with intensive help.

Honolulu Star-Advisor via loansafe.org

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Debate Over Year-round vs. Traditional Schools

Submitted by ANGELA PASCOPELLA on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:45pm

By the time summer's over, many families can't wait for school to start. Working parents have struggled to find camps or babysitting, kids are bored and teachers fret over "summer slide" – the academic losses that research shows hits kids from poor families hardest.

The Huffington Post