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Category: 10.1Assessments
- California students' improvement on AP exams deserves more attention
- API has served its purpose
- Mixed results using iPads
- Dilemma over English learners
- Placement exams are ineffective
- Outside evaluator must tell us how well prepared are we for Common Core
- Common Core, 'dubious causality'
- Final exams
- How should we measure our schools if not by API?
- Sobering NAEP scores
- A sign of the times
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- A much needed shift away from rating schools on test results alone
- Brown skeptical of key ed bill
- More college-ready juniors
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Test scores up – not enough for feds
- Expansion of test for special ed students distorts latest API results
- State's second graders get a STAR
- California ACT scores exceed U.S.
- Few bragging rights in test scores
- Look to experience, not policy, to assess 21st century skills
- Dream Act sent to governor
- EQI may replace API in rankings
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- I, II punch of algebra proficiency
- Early Assessment Program is a bridge amid tall silos of higher education
- PACE's David Plank on how new assessments will measure and shape learning
- Larry Aceves on testing & spending
- API, AYP: more conflicting messages
- Test changes 'inflate' API scores
- VAMing and slamming teachers in Los Angeles
- Matter of time before exit exam's exit
- L.A. Times reporters explain series
- Times hits raw nerve with data on teachers
- State declines leadership role in designing new standardized tests
- Still no common-core appointments
Category: 2010 elections
- Jerry Brown's ed plan reflects realism toward school reform
- Kirst: reread Jerry Brown's plan
- Listen to good advice, Jerry Brown
- Bring in new faces and voices to Sacramento for real change
- Brown's and Whitman's platforms
- Whitman plan -- school grades, charters, merit pay -- is right for us
- CTA outspending ACSA in race
- State superintendent candidate Tom Torlakson on his priorities, starting with settling the finance suit on funding education
- Larry Aceves on testing & spending
- State Superintendent candidate Larry Aceves on teacher evaluations, NCLB, his priorities for the job
- Comcast reinstates CTA's ad
- Steinberg creates flap over Edujobs dollars
- Key to Larry Aceves' win is in the mail
- Big showing by little-known Larry Aceves
- Breaking down Meg's ed numbers
- Fact-checking Poizner and Whitman
Category: 2012 election
- 160-day minimum year coming
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- CSBA: Vote for both tax plans
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- K-12 schools spared, for now
- Polling looks good for Brown
- Big price, little time for initiative
- Brown, CFT cut deal for November
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- PTA is mobilizing for $10 billion fundraiser: Our Children, Our Future
- Financially strained districts on rise
- Munger-PTA initiative hits the streets
- Poll: Tax with ed reforms is winner
- Initiative: $10B for K-12, preschool
- A sneak preview of GOP contenders' brag sheets on education
Category: A to G Curriculum
- Another report urges changing API
- Eliminating second-year science mandate is fast fix with long-term damage
- Career- and college-ready: Are they synonymous or different?
- SoCal district up for Broad Prize
- Doubts over 8th grade algebra for all
- How should we measure our schools if not by API?
- Online 'Bill of Rights' for high school
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- California ACT scores exceed U.S.
- Computer programming should qualify as foreign language for UC
- New UC role: Grow career tech
- Lots of 'ifs' in adopting A-G
- I, II punch of algebra proficiency
- A schism on college readiness
- With adoption of A-G, capable students like these will get courses they need
- Big high school district adopts A-G
- In East San Jose, college is as possible as A-G
- The myth of a high school education
- Community forums in East San Jose
- Pathways to high schools that work
- 'Worst’ schools have 1 week to seek $416 million
- Too many students forced to retake algebra
- Art and ingenuity in the shadow of Google
- Linda Murray: Districts should adopt the a-g curriculum
- One district's embarrassing mistake
- Career academies, where a-g and job training meet
- Should a-g be the default curriculum?
Category: Achievement Gap
- California students' improvement on AP exams deserves more attention
- API has served its purpose
- Consider a new equity meter to measure closing the achievement gap
- Students must summon our inner superheroes for educational justice
- Kindergarten for all comes of age
- SoCal district up for Broad Prize
- STEMing the minority gap
- San Francisco Unified blazes civil rights path for California districts to follow
- Students can't get "passed" math
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- California's budget woes hit neediest students the hardest
- Math gap starts early, persists
- Focus on equity in states' funding
- 'College for all' strategy misguided
- State of state's teachers is bleak
- Stockton corrals dropouts to school
- Bold vision for community colleges
- Many teachers don't understand how to teach minority students
- 'Waiting for Superman's' half-truths and heroes can move you to tears
- Foundations urge adopting A-G
- Matter of time before exit exam's exit
- No layoff help for troubled schools
- Layoffs or not, we must recruit STEM teachers
- Steinberg bill on teacher layoffs in jeopardy
- High costs of dropping out
- Grad rate falls 5 percentage points in a decade
- Silicon Valley foundation rescues summer school
- Too many students forced to retake algebra
- Worth hearing and reading
- Lawsuit: Layoffs hurt minority kids
- California still an AP leader, for now
- Silicon Valley's great divide
- O'Connell's big plans for his last year
- Poor schools bearing brunt of budget cuts
- State lags in new math index
- Open enrollment provision needs work
- New social network for minority students
- SJ 2020: Will districts work together?
Category: Adequacy suit
- California's budget woes hit neediest students the hardest
- Goodwin Liu, education justice
- Another setback in funding lawsuits
- First pass at finance reform
- Paths to school finance reform
- Advice to Jerry Brown (continued)
- Can we sue our way out of this mess?
- Larry Aceves on testing & spending
- CSBA Scott Plotkin's troubling resignation
- Low-income groups file school funding suit
- Why the state deserved to be sued on funding
- Chuck Weis on lawsuit challenging state funding
- Litigation alert: major funding suit to be filed today
- Commercial properties finagle out of property taxes
- Governor, State Board to ACLU: We're on your side
- Lawsuit: Layoffs hurt minority kids
- School boards will sue state this year
- Funding suit's goal: return to local control
- Eric Hanushek on pitfalls of adequacy suits
Category: Adult education
Category: Advocacy organizations
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- Congress must demand effective teachers for all students
- Veteran journalist to lead EdSource
- It's not business, it's personal
- Democratic group hires Romero
- Bring in new faces and voices to Sacramento for real change
- Two parent activist groups go live
- ACLU sues over HS course fees
- Donations are salve for painful cuts
- San Diego and San Jose rated reform-resistant
- CSBA board admits it was in the dark on pay
- CSBA Scott Plotkin's troubling resignation
- Parents form Educacy, set goal for 2012
- Low-income groups file school funding suit
- No relief for CSU students: higher fees coming
- Parent activists come together
- Landmark ruling on teacher layoffs
- Spending flexibility, yes, but at whose expense?
- Bill Lucia new CEO of EdVoice
- Rae Belisle leaving EdVoice
Category: Blog info
- Come join us at EdSource
- Kathy Baron joins TOP-Ed
- Welcome to EdGuess2.0: TOP-Ed
- Coming soon to this site
- It's great to be back
Category: CALPADS
- Trending toward graduation
- 'Getting Down to Facts' revisited
- California stutter steps on data
- CALPADS goes to college
- Brown skeptical of key ed bill
- New dropout rates may be accurate but tell you little and could get worse
- Brown's mystifying CALTIDES veto
- New way of counting dropouts
- Hurdles for NCLB state waiver
- Brown vetoes teacher database
- At odds over CALPADS funding
- The case for/against CALPADS
- CALPADS put on ice
- Here's to the data system that works
- One more stab at P-20 data structure
- Data milestone for foster care
- CALPADS 'in danger of failure'
- California lags on using data
- Ultimatum to IBM on data system
- Despite veto, no CALPADS layoffs
- New dropout rate in question
- Another warning on CALPADS
- Call to restore CALPADS money
- Districts show the way in using data
- Governor cuts CALPADS money
- Green-tech academies vetoed
- Bill would create green academies
- Is CALPADS unfixable? No answer yet
- CALPADS accepting data
- Consultant: shut down CALPADS now
- What Assembly should do on Race to the Top
- Hearing today on important data bill
Category: Career academies
- Next step for Student Success Act
- Finance reform without accountability could devastate career tech
- Career- and college-ready: Are they synonymous or different?
- California Partnership Academies: They're effective – and threatened
- No guarantee for career academies
- High marks for CTE academies
- Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
- New UC role: Grow career tech
- Money for green-tech academies
- A schism on college readiness
- Career tech turns to ratepayers
- Shortage of vocational degrees
- 'College for all' strategy misguided
- Career tech center's high grad rate
- Career academies must become model, not niche, for engaging students
- Partnership academies face squeeze
- Green-tech academies vetoed
- Bill would create green academies
- Pathways to high schools that work
- Silicon Valley's great divide
Category: CELDT
Category: Character education
- Establishing the intersection of “Be nice” and “Know a lot”
- How can the content of character be measured? And should it be?
Category: Charters
- Some cuts, cash in budget deal
- Charters, ed groups at odds
- Desert Trails parents won't let adults' deceit deny their kids a great school
- Rocketship, Aspire: Tenn. volunteers
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- Charter movement's U-shape
- Charters getting 7% less funding
- State Board, CDE at odds on charter
- Rocketship granted 28 charters
- Once more around the track of school reforms in Los Angeles Unified
- Aspire shares one of its data tools
- Big choices for LA teachers
- Nearly 1,000 charter schools in state
- Unanimous for Rocketship
- Zero hour for Rocketship
- Charter wins Prop 39 ruling (updated)
- More district-charter compacts
- Charter failure prompts scrutiny
- Meg Whitman funds charters
- Charter reforms sidetracked
- Parents exercising choice have a right to expect high-quality charters
- Dissension within charter ranks
- Walton pumps up charter assn.
- Penalty likely to slow charter growth
- Parents know better than lawmakers what's best for their children
- Dream Act sent to governor
- State Board member under fire
- Deal on charter regulation
- Rocketship's bold expansion
- Rocketship: 29 charters in San Jose
- Board stands by statewide charters
- Anti-charter bill runs into trouble
- Charter schools willing to be held accountable to higher standards
- Gates pushes charter compacts
- Bill to impose cap on charters
- Many high, low achieving charters
- Parent-trigger regs rightfully delayed
- Private donors rescue LA charter chain
- L.A. Unified, charters sign compact
- Compton parents pull parent trigger
- New overseer for charters urged
- Tough regs for low-scoring charters
- State NAACP backs 'parent trigger'
- Whitman plan -- school grades, charters, merit pay -- is right for us
- Unions fighting a phony 'war on teachers'
- Superman's Emily states her case
- Emily Jones of 'Waiting for Superman' on why she entered the lottery for Summit Prep Charter High in Redwood City
- What culprit-seeking 'Superman' lacks: complexity
- 'Waiting for' unions to change
- No Superman, but super funding
- 'Waiting for Superman's' half-truths and heroes can move you to tears
- Charters, districts air conflicts
- Bad charters to face revocation
- San Diego and San Jose rated reform-resistant
- Court limits statewide charter schools
- Charter revocation rules not yet final
- Proposal to revoke Decile 1 charter schools
- Tough road for charters on 'worst' list
- Charter advocates defeat restrictions
- Summit Charter eyes San Jose expansion
- Online learning to drive charter schools' innovation and expansion
- Fight brewing over new controls on charter schools
- Bricks and clicks: part two
- Fact-checking Poizner and Whitman
- Charter leader receives big award
- Charter fund buys online software firm
- No renewals for Stanford charter school
- Parent, charter activist nominated to State Board of Education
- Stanford-run charter on 'worst' list
- Worth hearing and reading
- Charters edged out in L.A.
- Data don't tell full story in charter 'segregation' study
- L.A. teachers, parents vote early – and often
- A frank and civil dialogue on charters
- Model by example: close failing charter schools
- If you can't beat 'em, ban 'em
- Race to Top compromise heads to Assembly
- Race to Top compromise should be doable
- Race to Top bill would give parents more power
- State Board to consider regs for revoking charters
- How LA charters will spend Gates' $60 million
- High-achieving charter awarded prize for efficiency
Category: Common Core standards
- API has served its purpose
- Estimating Common Core costs
- Race to the Top opens up to districts
- Schools must repair their other damaged infrastructure: relationships
- No more dodging Algebra dilemma
- In & out of step with top ed systems
- Bringing order to Common Core
- No action yet on NCLB waiver
- Such a big cost, so little benefit: Why, Governor, persist with Common Core?
- Outside evaluator must tell us how well prepared are we for Common Core
- Common Core, 'dubious causality'
- A rush of new technologies
- Should California have second thoughts on Common Core?
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- Brown consents to Race to Top
- Go for Race to the Top's next round; all students would be winners
- Signing of AB 250 takes big step toward deeper, richer learning for all students
- Jeb Bush's ed reform show
- Brown saves ed bills for last
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- A common thread in education bills
- Lawmakers advance standards
- State's second graders get a STAR
- $5 million to dissect district reforms
- Prepare more students for algebra but be fair to those who aren't ready
- California switches test consortiums
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- Common Core's manifesto war
- Bill Evers on the 'counter-manifesto' against a 'national curriculum'
- Join both Common Core consortia now, commit to one later
- I, II punch of algebra proficiency
- Deep rifts over next NCLB
- A schism on college readiness
- The illusive Common Core
- Inject critical thinking into state standards to think outside the bubble
- Big promises for new tests
- Common Core groups should be asked plenty of questions
- Top honor for Sanger superintendent
- Common Core groups to court state
- Common Core costs, benefits
- State out of sync with Common Core
- States differ on defining proficiency
- Reforms shift to districts
- API, AYP: more conflicting messages
- Final vote on common core is unanimous
- Common core – a commissioner's dissent
- Better or worse off with common core?
- Mass set to vote on common core
- Yes to Common Core plus 8th grade algebra
- Quest for compromise on common core
- Common core group inching along
- Key votes on common core this week
- Skeptics named to common-core commission
- Let the common-core debate begin
- Still missing: common-core nominees
- Massachusetts leads, California lags
- 6 districts to steer Race to the Top
- Court slaps state board's wrist in algebra case
- Still no common-core appointments
- Ze'ev Wurman on common-core standards
- Is common core good for California?
- Draft common core finally is out
- O'Connell's big plans for his last year
- Common-core standards under fire
- Race to Top compromise heads to Assembly
- The give and the get from joining Race to the Top
- Race to Top compromise should be doable
- Bill would expand who could grant a teaching credential
- What Assembly should do on Race to the Top
- Part 1: Ted Mitchell, State School Board president, on Race to the Top
Category: Community Colleges
- Some cuts, cash in budget deal
- Next step for Student Success Act
- Adult education’s existential crisis
- CA millions of degrees short
- Trends in California ed bills
- Middle class tuition break at UC, CSU
- LAO: No need for $5.5 billion cut
- Heavy editing on publishers
- Bill me: Legislative week in review
- No love for Gov’s comm. college plans
- Martha Kanter on improving college access
- College demand "unstoppable"
- Community colleges hurt by CSU freeze
- Placement exams are ineffective
- Unexpected cuts for CA colleges
- Should California community colleges prioritize enrollment to help students graduate earlier?
- Low college transfer rate dissected
- LAO nixes Gov's community college budget
- LAO wants to redirect QEIA funds
- Big change for community colleges
- Budget: more control, little cash
- Gov. pulls trigger, hits education
- Remaking community colleges
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- Brown's low marks for higher ed
- Reality vs $ at community colleges
- The community college swirl
- Rationing for community colleges
- A sign of the times
- Governor Brown signs Dream Act
- CALPADS goes to college
- State’s public colleges adrift
- Community colleges get job grants
- More college-ready juniors
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- A common thread in education bills
- Colleges gut summer school
- Performance-based funding: Can we do better this time?
- Bigger cuts to higher ed
- Worth a second look
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- Remaking remedial education
- Abandon Hope, All Who Enter
- Early Assessment Program is a bridge amid tall silos of higher education
- Keeping Long Beach's Promise
- Update: Dream Act on the move
- Shortage of vocational degrees
- Community colleges react to cuts
- LAO: Charge perpetual students more
- Community colleges push back
- New reality forcing community colleges to pursue monumental change
- Bold vision for community colleges
- Win for illegal immigrants and state
- How to up the odds of college completion
- State shifts cash crisis to schools
- Smarter world threatens to pass us by
- All agree on value of EAP
- Cutting through the transfer maze
- Community college first: a parcel tax
- Historic vote for community colleges, too
- Students fail to pursue college aid
- LAO: raise community college fees
- One spot to shop for free digital texts
- Protect higher ed for you own sake, boomers
- An aha moment on higher ed
- Foothill College President Judy Miner on the impact of budget cuts
Category: Data
- Bills seek to curb suspensions
- California stutter steps on data
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- CALPADS goes to college
- Brown's mystifying CALTIDES veto
- New way of counting dropouts
- Tom Torlakson's blueprint
- Brown vetoes teacher database
- Grad rates trending up – or down
- The case for/against CALPADS
- Here's to the data system that works
- One more stab at P-20 data structure
- Data milestone for foster care
- California lags on using data
- Ultimatum to IBM on data system
- Another warning on CALPADS
- Call to restore CALPADS money
- Lessons from high-performers
- Districts show the way in using data
- Governor cuts CALPADS money
- Green-tech academies vetoed
- Bill would create green academies
- Is CALPADS unfixable? No answer yet
- Exploring new pay plans for teachers, principals
- Hearing today on important data bill
Category: Did You Know
- 49.02: just shy of a majority, percentage of Hispanic students in K-12 schools. Rest of breakdown: 27.86% white not Hispanic; 8.42% Asian; 7.27% African-American; 2.69% Filipino; 0.74% Native American; 0.63% Pacific Islander; 3.37% multiple or no response
- 1,042: number of districts in California; 551 are elementary
- $66,995: statewide average teacher's salary in 2008-09
- $105,906: statewide average principal's salary in 2008-09
- $154,609: average statewide superintendents' salary in 2008-09
- 56: percent of K-12 public school math and science teachers with undergraduate and/or graduate degrees in math, math education, science or science education in 2008
- $593 billion: annual expenditures for K-12 education nationwide; 8 percent of that is the federal government's contribution
- $37: how much California spent in 2006-07 per $1,000 income on K-12 education, 39th in nation
- $591: gap between California's K-12 spending in 2007-08 ($9,706) and the national average ($10,297)
- 536,393: students in private school '08-'09; 6.25 million: students in public schools '08-'09
- 40,000: CA students in bilingual programs in 2009-10 (3.7% of all English learners); 47,000: students in bilingual programs in 2007-08
- 25,000: students in Class of 2010 who didn't pass the high school exit exam, down from 45,000 in 2009
- 17,877 boys, 5,250 girls: enrollment in Engineering and Design courses in California schools. 556 boys and 4,975 girls enrolled in Fashion and Interior Design courses.
- 13: average years of teaching of California teachers; 11: average number of years spent in their district
- 175: number of school days this year in many California schools
- 28: percentage of California teachers who are male.
Category: Disabilities education
- A common thread in education bills
- How the governor tried to eliminate mental health services for schoolchildren
- Anniversary approaches for a revolutionary, imperfect disabilities law
Category: Dropout prevention
- Trending toward graduation
- Bills seek to curb suspensions
- So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views
- America cannot afford the stiff price of a dropout nation
- Rationing for community colleges
- New dropout rates may be accurate but tell you little and could get worse
- New way of counting dropouts
- Grad rates trending up – or down
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- New dropout rate in question
- Stockton corrals dropouts to school
Category: Education Excellence Committee
- 'Getting Down to Facts' revisited
- Brown stretches switch to reform
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- Brownley to push for finance reform
- Paths to school finance reform
- Advice to Jerry Brown (continued)
- Listen to good advice, Jerry Brown
- Brown's and Whitman's platforms
- Reforms shift to districts
- Low-income groups file school funding suit
- Cash-strapped districts shift their dollars
- Spending flexibility, yes, but at whose expense?
- Full Circle Fund's Rx for schools
- Funding suit's goal: return to local control
- Governor squelches finance reform
Category: English learners
- Trending toward graduation
- California's first-class Dreamers
- Lawsuit over 'nonsense' EL program
- Weighted formula's heavy load
- Senators: Don't jam us on formula
- A common thread in education bills
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- First pass at finance reform
- New immigrants, same old confounding issue
- Half of English learners left behind
Category: Equity issues
- First, keep the lights on
- Consider a new equity meter to measure closing the achievement gap
- Lawsuit over 'nonsense' EL program
- Figuring districts' weighted funding
- Weighted formula in waiting
- Should districts be handed full control over spending?
- Low marks for Brown, not his ideas
- Bills seek to curb suspensions
- Layoff notices reach 20,000
- Thumbs down for finance reform
- Push for deferral reform
- Racial disparity in school discipline
- So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views
- Senators: Don't jam us on formula
- Brown stretches switch to reform
- Low college transfer rate dissected
- Should we switch to weighted student funding and do it now?
- No escaping school fees case
- How weighted funding would work
- Low-income schools shortchanged
- Online 'Bill of Rights' for high school
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- LAUSD, feds reach rights accord
- Going for broke in school
- Priceless: Free cost of education
- More sophomores passing exit exam
- Goodwin Liu, education justice
- The hard bigotry of low expectations and low priorities
- Summer School keeps gap at bay
- Latino college agenda gets traction
- California at a crossroads: my generation's future hangs in balance
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- Focus on equity in states' funding
- Dollars for tamales: poor schools can't get by on home cooking
- No breakdown on teacher layoffs
- Districts will lay off some of their best and brightest today; that must change
- Brownley to push for finance reform
- Categorical spending questioned
- Judge resolves L.A. layoff suit
- How not to stem girls' interest in technology
- Student-based budgeting offers hope for systemic change in urban schools
- State to monitor ban on fees
- Districts to radically alter funding
- John Mockler on Prop 98's relevance
- State Board takes on evaluations
- Paths to school finance reform
- Many teachers don't understand how to teach minority students
- Foundations urge adopting A-G
- ACLU sues over HS course fees
- Steinberg bill on teacher layoffs in jeopardy
- Not from 90210? Beverly Hills says, 'Out'
- Steinberg bill remedies suit over layoffs
- Learning algebra on the fly
- Layoffs scaring off future teachers
- Governor, State Board to ACLU: We're on your side
- Cash-strapped districts shift their dollars
- Bill would end layoffs by seniority
- Teachers surveyed agree: end 'quality-blind' layoffs
Category: Evaluations
- Smart policy decisions can only result from involving teachers
- Student scores in evaluations
- Judge to rule on teacher evals
- LA groups want test scores part of evaluations
- Race to the Top opens up to districts
- Full-scale assault on dismissal laws
- Don't skip this step: Designing evaluations of teachers starts with trust
- Faster firings in 'egregious' cases
- An overdue recognition that teachers must be partners in education reform
- Suit: Eval law requires student data
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 1
- In & out of step with top ed systems
- Tightening teacher dismissals
- No action yet on NCLB waiver
- ACSA: Waiver too weak as is
- Building teachers to last
- Brown: Cull the herd of state tests
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- Overworked, undertrained principals
- In the toughest time of year for new teachers, encouragement helps
- Facing some inconvenient truths about reforming teacher evaluations
- Poll: Tax with ed reforms is winner
- Understanding the 'why' behind teacher evaluations is critical to their success
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Support for teachers over unions
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- New life for old law on evaluations
Category: Finance
- CA breaks another bad record
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- Easing the burden of deferrals
- Weighted formula's heavy load
- Thumbs down for finance reform
- Weighted formula's impact
- Senators: Don't jam us on formula
- Vital student programs may be sacrified on the altar of flexibility
- Will the real TK stand up?
- Should we switch to weighted student funding and do it now?
- How weighted funding would work
- Switch to weighted funding
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- State’s public colleges adrift
- Slow track for finance reform
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- Biggest bang for tuition bucks
- LAO: Cut basic aid districts' money
- Categorical spending questioned
- Student-based budgeting offers hope for systemic change in urban schools
- Paths to school finance reform
- Can we sue our way out of this mess?
- Trouble ahead for new stimulus bill
- Spending flexibility, yes, but at whose expense?
- Good report, for the moment, on districts' finances
- School boards will sue state this year
- Prop 98: protected or cut?
- Districts abandoning class-size reduction
- Feds could penalize budget cuts for education
- Eric Hanushek on pitfalls of adequacy suits
- Governor squelches finance reform
Category: Foster care
- Foster youths' financial climb through college getting even steeper
- Closing the bubble in foster care
- Foster youth deserve to be left out of Brown's plan to combine categorical funds
- Linking foster youth and academics
- Foster youth get a voice
- Brown saves ed bills for last
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- A common thread in education bills
- New foster care regs getting closer
- Dream Act sent to governor
- Santa Clara County Court is first to focus on education of foster youth
- Data milestone for foster care
Category: Getting Down To Facts studies
- 'Getting Down to Facts' revisited
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It's time to act on them
- California's budget woes hit neediest students the hardest
- Brownley to push for finance reform
- Reforms shift to districts
- Low-income groups file school funding suit
- Funding suit's goal: return to local control
- Governor squelches finance reform
Category: Initiatives
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- CA breaks another bad record
- CSBA: Vote for both tax plans
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Help districts plan for disaster
- Low marks for Brown, not his ideas
- Polling looks good for Brown
- Big price, little time for initiative
- Brown, CFT cut deal for November
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- PTA is mobilizing for $10 billion fundraiser: Our Children, Our Future
- Financially strained districts on rise
- Munger-PTA initiative hits the streets
- Happy Presidents' Day
- Big backing for Brown's tax increase
- Next step for online initiative
- Brown's cagily worded initiative
- PTA unites behind an initiative to transform and fairly fund our schools
- Poll: Tax with ed reforms is winner
Category: Jerry Brown
- 160-day minimum year coming
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- Adult education’s existential crisis
- Middle class tuition break at UC, CSU
- CA breaks another bad record
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Another strike at Transitional K
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- Help districts plan for disaster
- Low marks for Brown, not his ideas
- Your name here
- Mixed results using iPads
- Buck up, California, and learn from Rhode Island's big pension reforms
- Kindergarten for all comes of age
- No love for Gov’s comm. college plans
- A lot hangs on Prop 98 ruling
- Polling looks good for Brown
- Big price, little time for initiative
- Brown, CFT cut deal for November
- A win for Transitional Kindergarten
- Weighted formula's heavy load
- Kindergarten for all 4-years olds
- Such a big cost, so little benefit: Why, Governor, persist with Common Core?
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- Steinberg's API alternative
- Cutting it close to a quorum
- Bus money back for next year, too
- LAO nixes Gov's community college budget
- Will the real TK stand up?
- Foster youth deserve to be left out of Brown's plan to combine categorical funds
- San Francisco scraps Transitional Kindergarten
- Big backing for Brown's tax increase
- Brown wants fast results, fewer tests
- Higher taxes, little relief
- Finnishing School
- Jerry Brown's fresh start: Local control tied to accountability
- Brown favors school inspections
- Brown: Cull the herd of state tests
- Brown's Prop 98 contortion
- How weighted funding would work
- Budget: more control, little cash
- Switch to weighted funding
- Call for one tax on November ballot
- Brown's cagily worded initiative
- Gov. pulls trigger, hits education
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- California stutter steps on data
- Duncan to State: No way on RTTT
- Brown consents to Race to Top
- Brown's low marks for higher ed
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- Brown: API plus school inspections
- Brown saves ed bills for last
- A sign of the times
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- Governor Brown signs Dream Act
- State’s public colleges adrift
- Brown skeptical of key ed bill
- Priceless: Free cost of education
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Race to convince Jerry Brown
- Gov. Brown signs Dream Act - Part 1
- Dream Act sent to governor
- Brown signs ed trailer bill
- Dems' budget: Prop 98 with twist
- The Prop 98 disappearing act
- Bigger cuts to higher ed
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- It's not business, it's personal
- Sue Burr gets dual education role
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- Time for Brown to hit the road
- District heavyweights to Capitol
- Support to kill redevelopment
- Seeing silver lining in Robles-Wong
- Kirst: State Board critics off-base
- Voters willing, K-12 to get its full due
- Brown scuttles education secretary
- Nominating Honig to State Board of Education is risky but worthy
- Brown names seven to State Board
- K-12 to dodge budget tornado
- Ace in hole: Tax Bush-era breaks
Category: Just the Facts
- What's meant by A-G requirements?
- Why are STAR, CST and NAEP important?
- What's the difference between API and AYP?
- What is Proposition 98?
- What is CAHSEE, the high school exit exam?
Category: Kindergarten
- Another strike at Transitional K
- Kindergarten for all comes of age
- Kindergarten for all 4-years olds
- San Francisco scraps Transitional Kindergarten
- Putting kitchens into kindergarten
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- Why would California leave $100 million on the table for early education?
- Still noncommital on Race to the Tot
- Top pre-K priorities: transitional kindergarten, child care inspections
- State weighs early ed Race to Top
- Few state rules for Transition K
- Sept. 1 start for kindergarten
- Critical transition for young kindergartners
- Kindergarten to shift to Sept. 1 start
- Simitian now favors 'junior' kindergarten
- Quest for best could kill good kindergarten bill
- Push for new kindergarten cutoff
- LA Unified to pilot 2-year kindergarten
Category: Multiple pathways
- Another report urges changing API
- Finance reform without accountability could devastate career tech
- No guarantee for career academies
- High marks for CTE academies
- Tom Torlakson's blueprint
- Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
- 'College for all' strategy misguided
- Career tech center's high grad rate
- Career academies must become model, not niche, for engaging students
- Green-tech academies vetoed
- Bill would create green academies
- Pathways to high schools that work
- Silicon Valley's great divide
Category: No Child Left Behind
- No Child Left Behind's successor, smartly written, can make impact
- California seeks to dump AYP
- CA may try for NCLB waiver
- Districts want shot at NCLB waiver
- No action yet on NCLB waiver
- ACSA: Waiver too weak as is
- More gain, no pain NCLB waiver
- First round of NCLB waivers
- A case study for NCLB waiver
- Low-income schools shortchanged
- We should never waver from an opportunity to do what’s best for kids
- Rep. Miller chastises California
- 'Jaw-dropping' costs of NCLB waiver
- Waivers, turnarounds and other examples of Obama's “reforminess”
- Congress must demand effective teachers for all students
- State Board to discuss NCLB waiver
- Establishing the intersection of “Be nice” and “Know a lot”
- Torlakson: Waiver to cost billions
- A much needed shift away from rating schools on test results alone
- NCLB waivers not automatic
- Test scores up – not enough for feds
- Torlakson wants NCLB waiver
- Hurdles for NCLB state waiver
- EQI may replace API in rankings
- NCLB waivers may benefit state
- Rep. Miller to grads: Be 'disrupter'
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- NCLB's escape hatch for schools
- Deep rifts over next NCLB
- Fixing Open Enrollment
- Start of something big in LA ...
- States given a bit more flexibility
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers - part 1
- Diane Ravitch on a mission
- Obama's state of dissension
- Compton parents pull parent trigger
- School performance depends on close attention to social equity
- Civil rights groups pan key Obama policies
- Obama's blueprint for California
- State replaces 3 dozen schools on 'worst' list
- What's next for 'parent trigger'?
- Imperfect list of 'worst' schools
- Failing schools list on Monday
- Furious times at Central Falls
Category: online learning
- Race to the Top opens up to districts
- Charter movement's U-shape
- A rush of new technologies
- Next step for online initiative
- Killer apps and creative disruptions
- Geography shouldn't be destiny and won't with Student Bill of Rights
- Innosight Institute's Michael Horn on the coming age of online learning
- Online 'Bill of Rights' for high school
Category: Parent activism
- Consider a new equity meter to measure closing the achievement gap
- Parent Trigger II: Desert warfare
- New program shows the promise and possibilities for parent engagement
- PTA unites behind an initiative to transform and fairly fund our schools
- Let's come together in November 2012 to restore education funding
- No changes to Open Enrollment
- Empowering parents — to sign petitions or become engines for change?
- Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It's time to act on them
- Parents know better than lawmakers what's best for their children
- Parent Trigger stirs AFT's 'kill mode'
- Wake up and smell the school cuts
- It's not business, it's personal
- Could teachers veto charter option?
- Beyond baking brownies
Category: Parent Trigger
- Desert Trails parents won't let adults' deceit deny their kids a great school
- Parent Trigger II: Desert warfare
- Brown vetoes API alternative
- Empowering parents — to sign petitions or become engines for change?
- Parents exercising choice have a right to expect high-quality charters
- No conflict for Patricia Rucker
- Parent Trigger stirs AFT's 'kill mode'
- New parent trigger regs approved
- Final (maybe) Trigger regs to a vote
- State Board member under fire
- Judge to throw out Trigger petitions
- Could teachers veto charter option?
- Parent Trigger 4.0 and counting
- Judge sides with Compton parents
- Parent trigger misfires by disrupting and dismantling local schools
- Kirst: Expedite parent trigger regs
- Parents: Don't gut 'parent trigger'
- Parent Revolution's Gabe Rose suspects trouble for Parent Trigger
- Strengthen and straighten out state’s parent empowerment process
- Parents reject Compton's demand
- 'Parent trigger' organizers need protection from harassment, intimidation
- Parent-trigger regs rightfully delayed
- AG to examine 'trigger' complaints
Category: Pay
- Faster firings in 'egregious' cases
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 1
- In & out of step with top ed systems
- Low-income schools shortchanged
- Support for teachers over unions
- A labor icon's thoughts on education
- Big changes for better teachers
- Experiments in evaluating teachers
- Imagine teachers as free agents before adopting pay for performance
- Frustrated Los Angeles teachers now have a progressive voice, NewTLA
- Negotiate student achievement goals into teachers' contracts
- Whitman plan -- school grades, charters, merit pay -- is right for us
- $66,995: statewide average teacher's salary in 2008-09
- Districts miss out on federal grants
- Report: No judging teachers on tests
- LAUSD, teachers negotiating use of test scores
- Capistrano strike enters 2nd week
- Merit-pay bill deserved Crist's veto
- No longer highest paid teachers
- San Jose teachers extend day gratis
- Intense talks on furloughs, give-backs
- L.A. task force urges big changes in tenure, pay
Category: Pensions
- Buck up, California, and learn from Rhode Island's big pension reforms
- CalSTRS down to 69 percent funded
- Tightening teacher dismissals
- More CalSTRS pressure
- Renewed call for pension reform
- LAO: Solve CalSTRS' $56B burden
- Pension reform's impact on teachers
- A labor icon's thoughts on education
- No anti-spiking reform this year
- State Auditor: CalSTRS is a high risk
- Battle over pension spiking bill
- Retirement oversight in budget bill
- Brown's CalSTRS problem
- CalSTRS CEO: Avoid drastic change
- Little Hoover: Cut current pensions
- LAO: Alter new teachers' pensions
- CalSTRS is not in crisis; do not begrudge the teacher's pension that I earned
- No easy way to cut CalSTRS benefits
- Teachers' pension costs to escalate
Category: Poverty
- Consider a new equity meter to measure closing the achievement gap
- Schools under heavy stress
- Dilemma over English learners
- So many students are hurting; listen and learn from their views
- How weighted funding would work
- Community wins Promise grant
- Low-income schools shortchanged
- A bulwark against bad eating
- Going for broke in school
- 20% children in state live in poverty
- The hard bigotry of low expectations and low priorities
Category: Preschool
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- Another strike at Transitional K
- Will the real TK stand up?
- San Francisco scraps Transitional Kindergarten
- Community wins Promise grant
- California wins early learning grant
- Initiative: $10B for K-12, preschool
- Putting kitchens into kindergarten
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- Down to wire on Race to Top
- Why would California leave $100 million on the table for early education?
- Still noncommital on Race to the Tot
- 20% children in state live in poverty
- Tom Torlakson's blueprint
- Math gap starts early, persists
- State weighs early ed Race to Top
- Few state rules for Transition K
- Go after preschool Race to the Top, but not with one hand tied behind our back
- Poverty + poor reading = dropout
- Parents must not be an afterthought in plans for educational progress
- Quality early learning can help Brown achieve education goals
- Candidates should see quality preschool as a winning issue
- Critical transition for young kindergartners
- Harlem Children's Zone times 20
- LA Unified to pilot 2-year kindergarten
Category: preschool
- Still noncommital on Race to the Tot
- Top pre-K priorities: transitional kindergarten, child care inspections
Category: Program innovation
- SIGnificant improvementS
- Learning 2.0: Writing gets serious when schools become publishers
- State leaders should embrace what Title I permits: arts funding
- Innovators for youth honored
- A case study for NCLB waiver
- Once more around the track of school reforms in Los Angeles Unified
- Big choices for LA teachers
- No middle ground
- A bulwark against bad eating
- Turning teaching upside-down
- No changes to Open Enrollment
- Community colleges get job grants
- An exception to summer school cuts
- $5 million to dissect district reforms
- State Board gets tough with SIG
- Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
- Besides anger, action and ideas can emerge from the worst of times
- Improving teaching and learning must drive efforts of reform
- Start of something big in LA ...
- Keeping Long Beach's Promise
- Consistent leadership, steady improvement: the Massachusetts way
- Top honor for Sanger superintendent
- Sputnik moments and other tall tales about crises in public education
- Nonsensical state regulations handcuffing online learning, innovation
- Kick the tires, avoid hype of reform
- Author and Stanford emeritus professor Larry Cuban cuts through 'the hype' on school reforms
- CTA and Quality Education Investment Act: selling the same old snake oil
- CTA cites QEIA's big impact
- School performance depends on close attention to social equity
- Obama's good intentions have led to simplistic solutions
- State launches site for teachers
- Districts miss out on federal grants
- 3 Promise Neighborhood grants
- Perpetual cycle of school reforms
- SIG +$ no longer just a 4-letter word
- San Diego and San Jose rated reform-resistant
- In retrospect, San Diego's reading reforms worked
- 3 supes head to DC to sell Race to the Top
- Amid confusion, no vote on SIG money
- Civil rights groups pan key Obama policies
- Not from 90210? Beverly Hills says, 'Out'
- Pathways to high schools that work
- Open enrollment's dazed and confused start
- Newsweek's 'Best High Schools list' has plenty from California
- Bricks and clicks: part two
- Digital textbooks coming, quickly and surely
- Cash-strapped districts shift their dollars
- Charter fund buys online software firm
- Harlem Children's Zone times 20
- San Jose teachers extend day gratis
- Exploring new pay plans for teachers, principals
- Charters edged out in L.A.
- What works in middle schools
- Study math to be an Olympian
- L.A. teachers, parents vote early – and often
- If state fails, districts can chase Race to the Top
- Intel expands math course for teachers
- Open enrollment explained
- Districts ready to Race, but will they really sign?
- Behind-the-scenes maneuvers on parental reforms
- Obama official: Innovation to drive ed agenda
- Riverside Unified in vanguard of digital texts
- Weekend extravaganza of learning at Stanford
- QEIA's early promise (and its faults)
Category: Race to the Top
- Race to the Top opens up to districts
- Third time wasn't a charm but now L.A. can win Race to the Top
- California wins early learning grant
- Duncan to State: No way on RTTT
- Brown consents to Race to Top
- Go for Race to the Top's next round; all students would be winners
- Waivers, turnarounds and other examples of Obama's “reforminess”
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- Down to wire on Race to Top
- No changes to Open Enrollment
- Why would California leave $100 million on the table for early education?
- Race to convince Jerry Brown
- Still noncommital on Race to the Tot
- Brown's mystifying CALTIDES veto
- State weighs early ed Race to Top
- NCLB waivers may benefit state
- 7 districts primed for Race's round 3
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers-part 2
- Diane Ravitch on a mission
- Obama's state of dissension
- Democratic group hires Romero
- Reforms shift to districts
- Obama's good intentions have led to simplistic solutions
- Perpetual cycle of school reforms
- How 5 Race to Top judges scored California
- Good try but no Race to the Top award
- 3 supes head to DC to sell Race to the Top
- In final heat for Race to the Top
- Civil rights groups pan key Obama policies
- Feinstein objects to cuts in K-12 jobs bill
- Schwarzenegger: We're too big to ignore
- Unions again balk at Race to the Top
- Now or never to sign Race to the Top MOU
- Nonstop work on Race to the Top
- 6 districts to steer Race to the Top
- Duncan wants California to resubmit
- Merit-pay bill deserved Crist's veto
- Standardized tests' Holy Grail
- Let districts decide on Race to the Top
- A poster school for failed reforms
- Report: correct Race to Top 'scoring deficiences'
- State's STEM plan mediocre
- Race to Top judges give state low score
- Is common core good for California?
- Deputy Supt. Rick Miller departs
- Run harder or quit Race to the Top?
- What's next for 'parent trigger'?
- State on no one's Race to the Top short list
- State delays list of lowest performers
- Stimulus law's futile goal of reform
- Education is where Obama can claim success
- O'Connell's big plans for his last year
- If state fails, districts can chase Race to the Top
- Common-core standards under fire
- Race to Top czar: Competition works
- A rush of MOUs in the end
- Fewer districts follow through with MOU
- CTA advises local unions not to sign MOU
- Open enrollment explained
- Assembly passes monumental reforms
- 2010 will be a doozy
- Districts ready to Race, but will they really sign?
- Behind-the-scenes maneuvers on parental reforms
- Open enrollment provision needs work
- Race to Top compromise heads to Assembly
- Obama official: Innovation to drive ed agenda
- The give and the get from joining Race to the Top
- Race to Top compromise should be doable
- Race to Top bill would give parents more power
- State Board to consider regs for revoking charters
- California's Trot to the Top
- What Assembly should do on Race to the Top
- Race to the Top criteria don't help laggard California
- No escape for chronically failing schools
- State finds Race to the Top a tough sell
- Distorting facts about Race to the Top
- Part 1: Ted Mitchell, State School Board president, on Race to the Top
- Part 2: President of California State School Board, Ted Mitchell, on Race to the Top
Category: Research
- Adult education’s existential crisis
- CA millions of degrees short
- SIGnificant improvementS
- An overdue recognition that teachers must be partners in education reform
- Students can't get "passed" math
- Linking foster youth and academics
- Besides anger, action and ideas can emerge from the worst of times
- Poverty + poor reading = dropout
- In retrospect, San Diego's reading reforms worked
- Grad rate falls 5 percentage points in a decade
- Math training's low numbers
- Standardized tests' Holy Grail
- What works in middle schools
Category: Revenue and taxes
- Judge OKs Prop 98 shell game
- Parcel taxes beat the odds
- Middle class tuition break at UC, CSU
- Figuring districts' weighted funding
- CA breaks another bad record
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Low marks for Brown, not his ideas
- Brown wants financing reform
- Your name here
- Losing experience in teacher layoffs
- Community colleges hurt by CSU freeze
- Weighted formula's heavy load
- Financially strained districts on rise
- Munger-PTA initiative hits the streets
- Unexpected cuts for CA colleges
- Should California community colleges prioritize enrollment to help students graduate earlier?
- CTA's a team player for Jerry Brown
- Big backing for Brown's tax increase
- Higher taxes, little relief
- CA student spending near bottom
- Brown's Prop 98 contortion
- Switch to weighted funding
- Call for one tax on November ballot
- A blank check to Sacramento would be a Dickens of a bad deal
- Brown's cagily worded initiative
- Initiative: $10B for K-12, preschool
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely
- California's budget woes hit neediest students the hardest
- Retirement oversight in budget bill
- Slow track for finance reform
- Brown signs ed trailer bill
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- It's not business, it's personal
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- Dozen parcel taxes on May ballot
- District heavyweights to Capitol
- Redevelopment's winners & losers
- Fewer districts say they're in trouble
- Schools likely on governor's hit list
- $25 billion deficit – ed cuts coming
- Most parcel taxes defeated this week
- Wading through data on spending
- Donations are salve for painful cuts
- Edujobs won't be budget hostage
- Parents form Educacy, set goal for 2012
- Symantec Chairman calls for Prop 13 reform
- North-south divide on parcel taxes
- Parent activists come together
- Commercial properties finagle out of property taxes
- Cuts to schools worry Californians
- Capistrano strike enters 2nd week
- Community college first: a parcel tax
- Full Circle Fund's Rx for schools
- CTA takes on corporate tax breaks
- Parcel tax initiative needs signatures
- 2010 will be a doozy
- Schwarzenegger's Secret Santa
- Blaming the state is losing parcel tax strategy
Category: Robles-Wong v California
- Goodwin Liu, education justice
- Seeing silver lining in Robles-Wong
- Big setback in Robles-Wong lawsuit
- Dismissal motion for Robles-Wong
- Advice to Jerry Brown (continued)
Category: SJ2020
Category: Special education
- The seven broken premises of special education in California
- There are many dimensions to "cheating" and many ways to measure its harm
- CST results need an *
Category: Standardized tests
- No Exit
- More dismal science test results
- Click and post: CST security breach
- It’s a bill’s life
- Steinberg's API alternative
- Charter movement's U-shape
- Common Core, 'dubious causality'
- Finnishing School
- How should we measure our schools if not by API?
- Not much good news from NAEP
- Brown: API plus school inspections
- A sign of the times
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Lawmakers advance standards
- Few bragging rights in test scores
- CST results need an *
- Tom Torlakson's blueprint
- Dream Act sent to governor
- California's 2nd-grade tests provide vital information; don't end them
- High-stakes tests based on honor
- EQI may replace API in rankings
- California switches test consortiums
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- Steinberg's SB 547 broadens accountability beyond test obsession
- School performance depends on close attention to social equity
- States differ on defining proficiency
- Times' ratings:solution or problem?
- Test changes 'inflate' API scores
- Alternatives to exit exam for the disabled
- Is common core good for California?
- Assembly passes monumental reforms
- California's NAEP enigma: it's not just demographics
Category: State Board of Education
- First pass at school inspections
- CA may try for NCLB waiver
- Board of Ed draws QEIA line in sand
- Steinberg's API alternative
- Cutting it close to a quorum
- More gain, no pain NCLB waiver
- LAO wants to redirect QEIA funds
- Doubts over 8th grade algebra for all
- A case study for NCLB waiver
- State Board, CDE at odds on charter
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- Inglewood dodges bullet, for now
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- State delays next SIG awards
- Charter failure prompts scrutiny
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Waiving a white flag on evaluations
- Kirst, Rucker and others confirmed
- A common thread in education bills
- Lawmakers advance standards
- Kirst, Rucker nominations in flux
- California clarifies SIG grants
- Parents know better than lawmakers what's best for their children
- Parent Trigger stirs AFT's 'kill mode'
- Still waiting for fix for SIG grants
- State Board gets tough with SIG
- New parent trigger regs approved
- Sue Burr gets dual education role
- California plunges into the unknown in expanding class sizes
- 8th State Board opening for Brown
- Kirst: State Board critics off-base
- Michael Kirst on his and State Board of Education's priorities and vision for reform
- Ruth Bloom's swipe on way out
- No explanation to Honig's withdrawal
- Nominating Honig to State Board of Education is risky but worthy
- Brown names seven to State Board
- Good advice to new state Super
- Carrot for changing evaluations
- AG to examine 'trigger' complaints
- State out of sync with Common Core
- State Board takes on evaluations
- Texas tales won't pollute our texts
- Feds willing, more of 'worst' schools would get money
- Court limits statewide charter schools
- Final vote on common core is unanimous
- A smarter way to divvy up turnaround money
- LAUSD,Oakland may not get turnaround grants
- Open enrollment's dazed and confused start
- Court slaps state board's wrist in algebra case
- State Board cites emergency, intervenes in Salinas school district
- Parent, charter activist nominated to State Board of Education
- Stanford-run charter on 'worst' list
- Part 2: President of California State School Board, Ted Mitchell, on Race to the Top
Category: State Budget
- 160-day minimum year coming
- First, keep the lights on
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- Adult education’s existential crisis
- Adult ed falls to flexibility
- Judge OKs Prop 98 shell game
- CA breaks another bad record
- CSBA: Vote for both tax plans
- LAO: No need for $5.5 billion cut
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Another strike at Transitional K
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- Schools under heavy stress
- Should districts be handed full control over spending?
- Your name here
- Bill me: Legislative week in review
- No love for Gov’s comm. college plans
- A lot hangs on Prop 98 ruling
- Losing experience in teacher layoffs
- Community colleges hurt by CSU freeze
- Big price, little time for initiative
- A win for Transitional Kindergarten
- Kindergarten for all 4-years olds
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- Financially strained districts on rise
- Torlakson, Brown differ on mandates
- Unexpected cuts for CA colleges
- Should California community colleges prioritize enrollment to help students graduate earlier?
- Bus money back for next year, too
- Plans to slash and boost college aid
- LAO nixes Gov's community college budget
- LAO praises Brown budget ...
- Will the real TK stand up?
- Busing money restored
- Foster youth deserve to be left out of Brown's plan to combine categorical funds
- San Francisco scraps Transitional Kindergarten
- Big backing for Brown's tax increase
- Jerry Brown's fresh start: Local control tied to accountability
- Brown favors school inspections
- Brown's Prop 98 contortion
- California Partnership Academies: They're effective – and threatened
- Big change for community colleges
- How weighted funding would work
- Budget: more control, little cash
- A blank check to Sacramento would be a Dickens of a bad deal
- Gov. pulls trigger, hits education
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Reality vs $ at community colleges
- Big midyear hit for Prop 98 likely
- Inglewood dodges bullet, for now
- District edges toward state takeover
- No Oscars for legislators this year
- Midyear cuts looking likelier
- State's second graders get a STAR
- Fiscal year starts off stumbling
- Colleges gut summer school
- Retirement oversight in budget bill
- California’s Greek tragedy: New lows in mortgaging our children’s future
- Brown signs ed trailer bill
- Lawmakers suspend fiscal oversight
- Levels of pain if revenues fail
- Dems' budget: Prop 98 with twist
- Danger zone for deferrals?
- Mess with Prop 98, do not pass Go
- The Prop 98 disappearing act
- Bigger cuts to higher ed
- Legislature should follow gutsy districts challenging seniority-based layoffs
- Sept. tax vote no help to schools
- Worth a second look
- Redistricting's shadow on budget
- Big (invisible) K-12 spending boost
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- It's not business, it's personal
- To the barricades and to the mall
- California at a crossroads: my generation's future hangs in balance
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- California plunges into the unknown in expanding class sizes
- Time for Brown to hit the road
- District heavyweights to Capitol
- Support to kill redevelopment
- LAO: Cut basic aid districts' money
- State Sen. Joe Simitian on what's at stake with a June tax measure
- Redevelopment's winners & losers
- If two budgets weren't enough, do 3
- Voters willing, K-12 to get its full due
- K-12 to dodge budget tornado
- Ace in hole: Tax Bush-era breaks
- Educators to Brown: Flexibility
- Brown's education road show today
- John Mockler on Prop 98's relevance
- $25 billion deficit – ed cuts coming
- The curse of money deferred
- Legislature's dilemma: Prop 98
- Able & willing to sign Edujobs bill
- State shifts cash crisis to schools
- Edujobs won't be budget hostage
- Steinberg creates flap over Edujobs dollars
- Feinstein objects to cuts in K-12 jobs bill
- Three decades of underfunding education
- 16% of districts cite financial distress
- Leg analyst predicts Prop 98 suspension
- Amid the havoc, K-12 relatively spared for now
- Cuts to schools worry Californians
- Capistrano strike enters 2nd week
- Trouble ahead for new stimulus bill
- San Jose teachers extend day gratis
- Intense talks on furloughs, give-backs
- State: Ed groups misinformed feds
- Stimulus money on hold
- Teachers surveyed agree: end 'quality-blind' layoffs
- Big cuts, high anxiety in Cupertino
- Gas-tax bill holds schools harmless
- Ed groups ask Duncan to reject waiver
- Unions plans protests March 4
- Report: rescind most mandated programs
- Good report, for the moment, on districts' finances
- PPIC poll: Tax us to protect K-12 schools
- LAO blasts "ill-conceived" amendment
- Poor schools bearing brunt of budget cuts
- Now 46th in nation in per student funding
- School boards will sue state this year
- State saves when districts ditch small classes
- State needs federal waiver for K-12 spending
- District offices will see budgets slashed
- Prop 98: protected or cut?
- Governor vows to protect ed spending
- 2010 will be a doozy
- Schwarzenegger's Secret Santa
- Districts abandoning class-size reduction
- Feds could penalize budget cuts for education
- Funding suit's goal: return to local control
Category: STEM
- STEM and the Summer Opportunity
- Teacher Pathways and Developing STEM Expertise
- The Growth and Development of STEM Education Networks
- Partnering to Power the Future of California’s STEM Education
- Vital Signs Highlights CA’s STEM Education Challenges & Opportunities
- Eliminating second-year science mandate is fast fix with long-term damage
- More dismal science test results
- No more dodging Algebra dilemma
- Mixed results using iPads
- STEMing the minority gap
- Middle school science critiqued
- Torlakson, Brown differ on mandates
- A rush of new technologies
- Woeful state of science instruction
- Ignoring science in schools starts with ignorance of science by the electorate
- Brown saves ed bills for last
- Career tech, arts supporters at odds
- Leveling up STEM's playing field
- Freshmen step up to science
- A plan to reinvigorate science ed
- Math gap starts early, persists
- Computer programming should qualify as foreign language for UC
- FORUM: testing science
- Money for green-tech academies
- I, II punch of algebra proficiency
- Career tech turns to ratepayers
- Teachers and innovators can make STEM leap off page into the imagination
- STEM pushed at CSU East Bay
- CSU East Bay President Mohammad Qayoumi on STEM education
- EdSource sees flaw in Algebra for all
- Low scores, low priority for science
- Opportunity gap widens when schools shortchange science
- Truth in labeling in California: If it's not hands-on, it's not science
- 'College for all' strategy misguided
- Low science scores should shock state at the center of technology universe
- Career tech center's high grad rate
- Career academies must become model, not niche, for engaging students
- Congress to vote on intern teachers
- How not to stem girls' interest in technology
- Math certificates for math instruction
- Oakland Unified takes a stand for science
- Expand feds' role with STEM
- Californians want more time for science
- Foundations urge adopting A-G
- Layoffs or not, we must recruit STEM teachers
- Learning algebra on the fly
- Court slaps state board's wrist in algebra case
- Math training's low numbers
- New force for STEM education
- Silicon Valley foundation rescues summer school
- State's STEM plan mediocre
- Too many students forced to retake algebra
- Like germs, math phobia spreads in 1st grade
- Silicon Valley's great divide
- State lags in new math index
- Intel expands math course for teachers
- Stephanie Couch on STEM Education in California
- Art and ingenuity in the shadow of Google
- Race to Top bill would give parents more power
Category: Student spending
- 160-day minimum year coming
- First, keep the lights on
- Figuring districts' weighted funding
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- Big changes to weighted formula
- K-12 schools spared, for now
- Weighted formula in waiting
- Schools under heavy stress
- 'Getting Down to Facts' revisited
- Easing the burden of deferrals
- Weighted formula's heavy load
- Push for deferral reform
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- Weighted formula's impact
- Brown stretches switch to reform
- Should we switch to weighted student funding and do it now?
- How weighted funding would work
- Switch to weighted funding
- PTA unites behind an initiative to transform and fairly fund our schools
- Low-income schools shortchanged
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- State’s public colleges adrift
- Slow track for finance reform
- First pass at finance reform
- Dollars for tamales: poor schools can't get by on home cooking
- Funding reform out of the ashes
- LAO: Cut basic aid districts' money
- Districts to radically alter funding
- Paths to school finance reform
- State ranked 31st in funding
- ACLU sues over HS course fees
- Wading through data on spending
- Grand jury urges districts to merge
- Three decades of underfunding education
- Litigation alert: major funding suit to be filed today
- Commercial properties finagle out of property taxes
- Spending flexibility, yes, but at whose expense?
- Full Circle Fund's Rx for schools
- Now 46th in nation in per student funding
Category: Student voices
Category: Taxes
- 160-day minimum year coming
- Leg erases Gov's ed reforms
- Judge OKs Prop 98 shell game
- Parcel taxes beat the odds
- CA breaks another bad record
- CSBA: Vote for both tax plans
- LAO: No need for $5.5 billion cut
- Watching California public schools sink — a preventable Titanic
- Persuade, not threaten, me to vote for your initiative, Governor
- A lot hangs on Prop 98 ruling
- Polling looks good for Brown
- Community colleges hurt by CSU freeze
- Big price, little time for initiative
- Brown, CFT cut deal for November
- Charters choose Brown's tax plan
- PTA is mobilizing for $10 billion fundraiser: Our Children, Our Future
- Financially strained districts on rise
- Bus money back for next year, too
- LAO praises Brown budget ...
- Big backing for Brown's tax increase
- Jerry Brown's fresh start: Local control tied to accountability
- CA student spending near bottom
- Brown's Prop 98 contortion
- Budget: more control, little cash
- A blank check to Sacramento would be a Dickens of a bad deal
- Brown's cagily worded initiative
- Gov. pulls trigger, hits education
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- Poll: Tax with ed reforms is winner
- Initiative: $10B for K-12, preschool
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Support for teachers over unions
- Local option for state tax initiative
- Let's come together in November 2012 to restore education funding
- No Oscars for legislators this year
- Court tests for parcel tax
- Lawmakers suspend fiscal oversight
- Levels of pain if revenues fail
- Dems' budget: Prop 98 with twist
- Bigger cuts to higher ed
- Sept. tax vote no help to schools
- Worth a second look
- Redistricting's shadow on budget
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- It's not business, it's personal
- California at a crossroads: my generation's future hangs in balance
- Tax the wealthy to fund schools
- Time for Brown to hit the road
- District heavyweights to Capitol
- State Sen. Joe Simitian on what's at stake with a June tax measure
- Redevelopment's winners & losers
- If two budgets weren't enough, do 3
- Voters willing, K-12 to get its full due
- K-12 to dodge budget tornado
- Ace in hole: Tax Bush-era breaks
- Educators to Brown: Flexibility
- John Mockler on Prop 98's relevance
- Most parcel taxes defeated this week
- Three decades of underfunding education
- No longer highest paid teachers
- Big cuts, high anxiety in Cupertino
- CTA takes on corporate tax breaks
Category: Teacher Development
- Dismissal bill falters in Assembly
- Smart policy decisions can only result from involving teachers
- LA groups want test scores part of evaluations
- Teacher dismissal bill moves on
- Schools must repair their other damaged infrastructure: relationships
- Layoffs by seniority contested
- An overdue recognition that teachers must be partners in education reform
- Building teachers to last
- Doubts over 8th grade algebra for all
- Finnishing School
- Brown favors school inspections
- Brown: Cull the herd of state tests
- Credentialing body's new focus
- Linda Darling-Hammond on improving teacher training programs
- Efforts to improve student learning often fall short despite best intentions
- Bringing diversity into teaching
- Overworked, undertrained principals
- In the toughest time of year for new teachers, encouragement helps
- What should teachers unions do to remain effective and relevant?
- Principals give high grades to alternative certification teachers
- Charters launch in-depth evals
- Congress must demand effective teachers for all students
- Reforming teacher evaluations: Let's do it
- Praise for peer evaluations
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- A labor icon's thoughts on education
- Teacher evaluation bill 2012 priority
- Brown nominates Darling-Hammond
- Ravitch, Darling-Hammond, Damon
- Out of frustration, they'll march
- Anthony Cody on why teachers are marching in Washington
- Retirement oversight in budget bill
- Cutting teachers' learning curve
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part I
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part II
- Center on teaching joins WestEd
- Legislature should follow gutsy districts challenging seniority-based layoffs
- Big changes for better teachers
- Experiments in evaluating teachers
- John Deasy's pressure chamber
- TFA seeking critical mass
- John Merrow on undervalued teachers
- Improving teaching and learning must drive efforts of reform
- CSU East Bay President Mohammad Qayoumi on STEM education
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers - part 1
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers-part 2
- Diane Ravitch on a mission
- Top honor for Sanger superintendent
- Low scores, low priority for science
- Analysis of LA Times series shows pitfalls of using test scores to evaluate teachers
- Imagine teachers as free agents before adopting pay for performance
- While they're still in training, intern teachers are not yet highly qualified
- Alternate route, same destination: all highly qualified teachers
- Miller defends vote on interns
- Congress to vote on intern teachers
- Carrot for changing evaluations
- State of state's teachers is bleak
- Mayor Villaraigosa attacks UTLA
- Highly skilled interns should be considered 'highly qualified' teachers
- CSU to revamp ed schools
- State Board takes on evaluations
- Brown's and Whitman's platforms
- Lessons from high-performers
- Unions fighting a phony 'war on teachers'
- Math certificates for math instruction
- Times' ratings:solution or problem?
- State launches site for teachers
- Districts miss out on federal grants
- Great teachers can help majority of teachers in middle improve
- Expand feds' role with STEM
- Evaluate to improve, not punish, teachers
- VAMing and slamming teachers in Los Angeles
- No layoff help for troubled schools
- Report: No judging teachers on tests
- Teachers to survey students – if they choose
- LAUSD, teachers negotiating use of test scores
- Times hits raw nerve with data on teachers
- Smart report on teacher evaluations
- Layoffs scaring off future teachers
- Mr. Secretary, listen to us teachers
- Math training's low numbers
- Bill would end layoffs by seniority
- Merit-pay bill deserved Crist's veto
- Special ed option for laid-off teachers
- Silicon Valley foundation rescues summer school
- L.A. task force urges big changes in tenure, pay
- Worth hearing and reading
- Full Circle Fund's Rx for schools
- Stimulus law's futile goal of reform
- Hot off the press
- Tenure not quite automatic in L.A.
- Seven years later, teacher ordered to be fired
- Governor targets seniority protections
- The give and the get from joining Race to the Top
- Race to Top bill would give parents more power
- Bill would expand who could grant a teaching credential
- EnCorps recruiting 250 science, math teachers
- How LA charters will spend Gates' $60 million
Category: Technology
- Eliminating second-year science mandate is fast fix with long-term damage
- Finance reform without accountability could devastate career tech
- Race to the Top opens up to districts
- A rush of new technologies
- A push for free college textbooks
- Dead last in digital ed
- Jeb Bush's ed reform show
- Turning teaching upside-down
- The digital natives are coming
Category: Tenure
- Dismissal bill falters in Assembly
- Full-scale assault on dismissal laws
- Layoffs by seniority contested
- Losing experience in teacher layoffs
- San Francisco Unified blazes civil rights path for California districts to follow
- Building teachers to last
- Facing some inconvenient truths about reforming teacher evaluations
- Poll: Tax with ed reforms is winner
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Reform/revenue plan for '12 ballot
- A labor icon's thoughts on education
- CTA prez foresees attacks on union
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part II
- Big changes for better teachers
- Experiments in evaluating teachers
- John Merrow on undervalued teachers
- 19,000 and counting
- Districts will lay off some of their best and brightest today; that must change
- Will LAUSD layoffs be a model?
- Judge resolves L.A. layoff suit
- Frustrated Los Angeles teachers now have a progressive voice, NewTLA
- Mayor Villaraigosa attacks UTLA
- Positives, negatives, problems and some suggestions for tenure
- State Board takes on evaluations
- 'Waiting for' unions to change
- No layoff help for troubled schools
- Report: No judging teachers on tests
- Steinberg bill on teacher layoffs in jeopardy
- LAUSD, teachers negotiating use of test scores
- Steinberg bill remedies suit over layoffs
- Layoffs scaring off future teachers
- Landmark ruling on teacher layoffs
- Governor, State Board to ACLU: We're on your side
- Bill would end layoffs by seniority
- Merit-pay bill deserved Crist's veto
- L.A. task force urges big changes in tenure, pay
Category: Tests
- Another report urges changing API
- API has served its purpose
- Consider a new equity meter to measure closing the achievement gap
- Student scores in evaluations
- More dismal science test results
- It’s a bill’s life
- College readiness test's next phase
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 1
- In & out of step with top ed systems
- CST results back in a jiffy
- Steinberg's API alternative
- Common Core, 'dubious causality'
- Brown wants fast results, fewer tests
- Final exams
- Brown skeptical of key ed bill
- Lawmakers advance standards
- Test scores up – not enough for feds
- Expansion of test for special ed students distorts latest API results
- CST results need an *
- Dream Act sent to governor
- EQI may replace API in rankings
- STAR tests may end for youngest
- Steinberg's SB 547 broadens accountability beyond test obsession
- China and Finland are No. 1, and America has fallen like a stone, right? Not so fast
- Inject critical thinking into state standards to think outside the bubble
- Consistent leadership, steady improvement: the Massachusetts way
- Low science scores should shock state at the center of technology universe
- Brown's and Whitman's platforms
- Alternatives to exit exam for the disabled
- Standardized tests' Holy Grail
Category: Turning around failing schools
- SIGnificant improvementS
- No action yet on NCLB waiver
- ACSA: Waiver too weak as is
- Warming up to an NCLB waiver
- State delays next SIG awards
- Waiving a white flag on evaluations
- Test scores up – not enough for feds
- Still waiting for fix for SIG grants
- Fuzzy SIG process upsets schools
- NCLB waivers may benefit state
- A hardly 'persistently lowest list'
- SIG redux: same schools, fewer $s
- Author and Stanford emeritus professor Larry Cuban cuts through 'the hype' on school reforms
- Compton parents pull parent trigger
- State NAACP backs 'parent trigger'
- The sorry saga behind state's School Improvement Grants
- Able & willing to sign Edujobs bill
- SIG +$ no longer just a 4-letter word
- Oakland, LAUSD to get SIG money after all
- LAUSD, teachers negotiating use of test scores
- Feds willing, more of 'worst' schools would get money
- Liposuction approach to school reform
- Amid confusion, no vote on SIG money
- A smarter way to divvy up turnaround money
- LAUSD,Oakland may not get turnaround grants
- Civil rights groups pan key Obama policies
- Tough road for charters on 'worst' list
- Schools pursuing SIG money identified
- Most on 'worst' schools list pursue fed grants
- 'Worst’ schools have 1 week to seek $416 million
- Hour of decision for low-performing schools
- No renewals for Stanford charter school
- A poster school for failed reforms
- State Board cites emergency, intervenes in Salinas school district
- Data details on worst schools due out
- Schools still bad after 20 years
- Failing schools list is final
- Stanford-run charter on 'worst' list
- State replaces 3 dozen schools on 'worst' list
- What's next for 'parent trigger'?
- Imperfect list of 'worst' schools
- Teachers surveyed agree: end 'quality-blind' layoffs
- Failing schools list on Monday
Category: Twenty-first Century Learning
- Another report urges changing API
- Career- and college-ready: Are they synonymous or different?
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 2
- Finnishing School
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Look to experience, not policy, to assess 21st century skills
Category: UC and CSU
- California's first-class Dreamers
- Eliminating second-year science mandate is fast fix with long-term damage
- Trends in California ed bills
- Middle class tuition break at UC, CSU
- 'Qualities of mind and heart'
- It’s a bill’s life
- Heavy editing on publishers
- College readiness test's next phase
- STEMing the minority gap
- Community colleges hurt by CSU freeze
- Plans to slash and boost college aid
- A push for free college textbooks
- Budget: more control, little cash
- Gov. pulls trigger, hits education
- Brown's turn: $7 billion for schools
- Voters want more of what they won't pay for: stronger higher education
- UC picks protest investigators
- UC president orders police review
- What the latest survey of Californians on higher education didn't ask: a lot
- Brown's low marks for higher ed
- Governor Brown signs Dream Act
- CALPADS goes to college
- State’s public colleges adrift
- More college-ready juniors
- Computer programming should qualify as foreign language for UC
- Bigger cuts to higher ed
- In-state fees for the undocumented
- Holding a line, almost, on higher ed
- New UC role: Grow career tech
- Early Assessment Program is a bridge amid tall silos of higher education
- Keeping Long Beach's Promise
- STEM pushed at CSU East Bay
- Update: Dream Act on the move
- Miller defends vote on interns
- Big high school district adopts A-G
- In East San Jose, college is as possible as A-G
- CSU to revamp ed schools
- Win for illegal immigrants and state
- Smarter world threatens to pass us by
- No relief for CSU students: higher fees coming
- All agree on value of EAP
- CSU's new tack to cut remediation
- Failing schools list on Monday
- LAO: raise community college fees
- Protect higher ed for you own sake, boomers
- Tough graduation goals for CSU campuses
- Obama: Cut banks out of college loans
- LAO blasts "ill-conceived" amendment
- An aha moment on higher ed
- UC students need a teach-in on California's budget mess
Category: UC Board of Regents
- What the latest survey of Californians on higher education didn't ask: a lot
- Preemptive action over protests
Category: Uncategorized
- Our Kids are Alright
- TOP-ED Tax Measures
- Fueling an Innovation Spirit in Education
- Compromise on school fees bill
- 160-day minimum year coming
- Some cuts, cash in budget deal
- Foster youths' financial climb through college getting even steeper
- No Child Left Behind's successor, smartly written, can make impact
- CA breaks another bad record
- Busting out of traditional notion of school demands taking risks
- Imagine schools without good-for-nothing moms
- LAO: District oversight works
- Local funding can come to the rescue of California schools
- No more dodging Algebra dilemma
- Heavy editing on publishers
- Buck up, California, and learn from Rhode Island's big pension reforms
- College readiness test's next phase
- An overdue recognition that teachers must be partners in education reform
- Weighted student formula is already working well in Twin Rivers Unified
- Third time wasn't a charm but now L.A. can win Race to the Top
- Thumbs down for finance reform
- A student's plea: Schools need more money – but make sure it gets to us
- CST results back in a jiffy
- Community schools recognize the vital role of full-service partnerships
- Weighted formula's impact
- Opportune time to rethink accountability and factor in improvement
- Happy Presidents' Day
- Bus money back for next year, too
- Building teachers to last
- Disapproving parents agree: Go back and fix your budget, governor
- Focus on developing good teachers, not simply measuring them
- Doubts over 8th grade algebra for all
- Renewed call for pension reform
- Should we switch to weighted student funding and do it now?
- CTA's a team player for Jerry Brown
- Brown wants fast results, fewer tests
- Jerry Brown's fresh start: Local control tied to accountability
- CA student spending near bottom
- Efforts to improve student learning often fall short despite best intentions
- Next step for online initiative
- Rocketship granted 28 charters
- Brown's cagily worded initiative
- In the toughest time of year for new teachers, encouragement helps
- Sobering NAEP scores
- Facing some inconvenient truths about reforming teacher evaluations
- Understanding the 'why' behind teacher evaluations is critical to their success
- Duncan to State: No way on RTTT
- Let's make a deal for ed funds
- Brown's low marks for higher ed
- Zero hour for Rocketship
- Rep. Miller chastises California
- Schools are like businesses – with students as knowledge workers
- Inglewood dodges bullet, for now
- Go for Race to the Top's next round; all students would be winners
- We've created transitional kindergarten; now, how and what to teach them?
- Brown shapes, signs RTTT entry
- Turning teaching upside-down
- Disparate discipline in schools
- Why would California leave $100 million on the table for early education?
- Jobs bill could rescue CA teachers
- Funding schools 'by the numbers' – or how to make 140 students disappear
- UC turns career tech ed-friendly
- Suit claims schools owed $2b more
- Reforming teacher evaluations: Let's do it
- Going for broke in school
- There are many dimensions to "cheating" and many ways to measure its harm
- Now is the time to end California's conflicting accountability systems
- Teacher evaluation bill 2012 priority
- No anti-spiking reform this year
- Dissension within charter ranks
- Enough reports, studies and blueprints: It's time to act on them
- State Auditor: CalSTRS is a high risk
- No conflict for Patricia Rucker
- High schools are failing to educate our students for college and careers
- Out of frustration, they'll march
- New parent trigger regs approved
- Who influences education in America? Can anyone?
- Advice from our Founder
- Design schools so students become real workers in education system
- Lawmakers should keep handcuffs off districts and extend local control
- Claude Steele returning to the Farm
- Go after preschool Race to the Top, but not with one hand tied behind our back
- It’s time for lawmakers to call 'Olly Olly Oxen Free' and pass the budget
- State lags in BAs for Hispanics
- Assembly: Yes, fix school funding
- The suspense is over
- Remix of knowledge acquisition and practice are elements of Learning 2.0
- LAO: Don't tie budget to voters
- John Deasy's pressure chamber
- Besides anger, action and ideas can emerge from the worst of times
- CTA's president-elect blesses budget
- Big (invisible) K-12 spending boost
- Upcoming forums on state budget
- Complaining about civics illiteracy is as American as ignorance itself
- Progress in unexpected places
- Most parcel taxes passed
- LAO: Cut small districts' bonus
- Sue Burr gets dual education role
- New culture of learning: Triumphant return of Dewey and child's play
- TFA seeking critical mass
- Merrow's faith in public schools
- Teach For America at 20: Add a year of training to the model
- New tests for students with disabilities have wider implications
- Cutting a break for foster youth
- Nordic tracking in California schools
- California schools move closer to doomsday
- A principal in a paradox
- Worser and worser
- Hidden costs of deferrals
- Robles-Wong lawyers reframe case
- Update: Dream Act on the move
- Educators get schooled in politics
- District heavyweights to Capitol
- Why the politics we’ve got won’t produce the schools we need
- DREAM on and on and ...
- Will LAUSD layoffs be a model?
- 10 essential blogs on California education – no, make that 11 (mine)
- 8th State Board opening for Brown
- Santa Clara County Court is first to focus on education of foster youth
- Kathy Baron joins TOP-Ed
- Deferrals, the hidden budget cut, hit state's charter schools hardest
- Don't make guinea pigs of the nation's lowest performing schools
- Career tech ed must be in the mix of options for all students
- Opportunity gap widens when schools shortchange science
- Listen to California’s youths; do not let them defer their dreams
- EdSource departure, a new book
- Watch out, biz, if taxes lose in June
- Budget cuts muffle charter growth
- CalSTRS is not in crisis; do not begrudge the teacher's pension that I earned
- Judge backs McKinley petitioners
- Don't hold your breath for GOP cuts
- Teachers' pension costs to escalate
- Rating system is needed to measure quality of state's preschool programs
- Recalling the teacher up the street
- Community colleges react to cuts
- Parents reject Compton's demand
- Parents must not be an afterthought in plans for educational progress
- Big setback in Robles-Wong lawsuit
- LAO: Charge perpetual students more
- 'Parent trigger' organizers need protection from harassment, intimidation
- Now 43rd in per-student spending
- Digital learning can deliver more for less – if allowed to
- Brown scuttles education secretary
- Off for the week
- Private donors rescue LA charter chain
- Miller defends vote on interns
- Value-added evaluations can be designed but can limitations be understood?
- PACE starts policy blog
- Highly skilled interns should be considered 'highly qualified' teachers
- Long Beach, Aspire among best
- Districts to radically alter funding
- CSU to revamp ed schools
- $4 m for charter: tax dollars at work
- A good night for schools, all in all
- Brown's comprehensive education plan tackles tough issues
- Next state superintendent should change the relationship with districts
- More charges over CALPADS
- Charter group lays off 1/6th of staff
- Scant K-12 talk in 3 debates
- Yes, we now have a budget!
- No budget (when I went to bed)
- LA's new rules for teacher layoffs
- Torlakson's priority: settle lawsuit
- 'Waiting for Superman' exposes grim reality that many children face
- LA teacher got good district review
- Interns no longer 'highly qualified'
- Lots of acronyms, no vision guiding K-12 schools
- Packing in 30 kids in kindergarten
- State shifts cash crisis to schools
- Back at you later this week
- Orwellian moments in state education
- Away for the week
- Money sits as players argue
- ConnectEd's Gary Hoachlander on high schools of the future
- Ramon Cortines retiring next spring
- Down to the wire for 'edujobs'
- 16 of 30 big districts shrink school year
- Yes to Common Core plus 8th grade algebra
- Elsewhere in the news
- Both suits address needs of poor kids
- Three decades of underfunding education
- Low-income charter students outperform peers
- An unsatisfying half-hour with Duncan
- A second school suit is in the chute
- 'Irrational, unstable and insufficient' funding
- Bricks and clicks: a new hybrid school
- Duncan wants California to resubmit
- NPR tunes in to Steve Poizner
- Policy guide to prep and pepper candidates
- Parents can strike, too
- All agree on value of EAP
- Merit-pay bill deserved Crist's veto
- Hollywood delivers; check it out
- Poizner the teacher is sent to the office
- Remembering Jaime Escalante
- O'Connell: We'll look at Round 2
- A day to read aloud
- Diane Ravitch's conversion
- Reiss on tap for ed secretary
- Hot off the press
- Monday morning report
- Charter summit Saturday in San Jose
- Few low-income districts pass parcel taxes
- Recommended reading: Schrag, Fuller
- Common core and STEM: in conflict? (cont.)
- The challenge of STEM education
- Time off for the holidays
- The rush to common-core standards
- Leaky pipeline to college graduation
- Flaws in systems for evaluating, hiring teachers
- Debt service to crowd out education spending - and everything else
- Underprepared teachers still bunched in poor schools
- Study finds teachers lack skills needed for high school reforms
- In your spare time, articles worth reading
- Vote set on Brownley's bill; Romero's "killed by silence"
- Master plan still sound but under strain
- Assembly bill to State: Keep hands off bulk of Race to the Top dollars
- AB 5x-8 introduced
- Race to the Top criteria don't help laggard California
- Bleak outlook for applicants to CSU
- Privacy at risk in many states' data bases
Category: Undocumented students
- Governor Brown signs Dream Act
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Gov. Brown signs Dream Act - Part 1
- Dream Act sent to governor
- In-state fees for the undocumented
- California Dream Act moves forward
Category: Unions
- Dismissal bill falters in Assembly
- Leaders who don’t protect students from predators violate public trust
- Teacher dismissal bill moves on
- Full-scale assault on dismissal laws
- Faster firings in 'egregious' cases
- CTA opposition stalls bills
- Losing experience in teacher layoffs
- Layoff notices reach 20,000
- Building teachers to last
- Once more around the track of school reforms in Los Angeles Unified
- What should teachers unions do to remain effective and relevant?
- Support for teachers over unions
- The third chair at the bargaining table in Los Angeles
- Praise for peer evaluations
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- A labor icon's thoughts on education
- Parent Trigger stirs AFT's 'kill mode'
- Out of frustration, they'll march
- Anthony Cody on why teachers are marching in Washington
- Retirement oversight in budget bill
- CTA prez foresees attacks on union
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part I
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part II
- Big changes for better teachers
- Experiments in evaluating teachers
- John Deasy's pressure chamber
- To the barricades and to the mall
- John Merrow on undervalued teachers
- Even with all of its faults, I'm sticking with the union
Category: Video
- Brown and Munger? Proposition 30 and 38? One Problem, Two Approaches
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 2
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 1
- Martha Kanter on improving college access
- College demand "unstoppable"
- Linda Darling-Hammond on improving teacher training programs
- Innosight Institute's Michael Horn on the coming age of online learning
- Aspire CEO James Willcox on charter schools' new teacher evaluations
- Anthony Cody on why teachers are marching in Washington
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part I
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part II
- Bill Evers on the 'counter-manifesto' against a 'national curriculum'
- Russlynn Ali on making states' school finances more equitable
- John Merrow on undervalued teachers
- CSU East Bay President Mohammad Qayoumi on STEM education
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers - part 1
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers-part 2
- State Sen. Joe Simitian on what's at stake with a June tax measure
- Parent Revolution's Gabe Rose suspects trouble for Parent Trigger
- Michael Kirst on his and State Board of Education's priorities and vision for reform
- Author and Stanford emeritus professor Larry Cuban cuts through 'the hype' on school reforms
- Ted Mitchell on the State Board of Education's policy to encourage comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations
- PACE's David Plank on how new assessments will measure and shape learning
- Emily Jones of 'Waiting for Superman' on why she entered the lottery for Summit Prep Charter High in Redwood City
- Part II: Tom Torlakson on teacher evaluations, 'merit pay'
- State superintendent candidate Tom Torlakson on his priorities, starting with settling the finance suit on funding education
- Part II: State Superintendent candidate Larry Aceves on charter schools, funding lawsuit
- State Superintendent candidate Larry Aceves on teacher evaluations, NCLB, his priorities for the job
- ConnectEd's Gary Hoachlander on high schools of the future
- Chuck Weis on lawsuit challenging state funding
- Ze'ev Wurman on common-core standards
- State Superintendent Jack O'Connell looks back – and ahead
- Derek Mitchell, Partners in School Innovation, on teacher collaboration
- Stephanie Couch on STEM Education in California
- Foothill College President Judy Miner on the impact of budget cuts
- Linda Murray: Districts should adopt the a-g curriculum
- Eric Hanushek on pitfalls of adequacy suits
- Part 1: Ted Mitchell, State School Board president, on Race to the Top
- Part 2: President of California State School Board, Ted Mitchell, on Race to the Top
Category: Video of the week
- Brown and Munger? Proposition 30 and 38? One Problem, Two Approaches
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 2
- Andreas Schleicher on U.S. lessons from PISA, part 1
- Martha Kanter on improving college access
- Linda Darling-Hammond on improving teacher training programs
- Innosight Institute's Michael Horn on the coming age of online learning
- Aspire CEO James Willcox on charter schools' new teacher evaluations
- Anthony Cody on why teachers are marching in Washington
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part I
- CTA's Dean Vogel on issues facing the union: part II
- Bill Evers on the 'counter-manifesto' against a 'national curriculum'
- Russlynn Ali on making states' school finances more equitable
- John Merrow on undervalued teachers
- CSU East Bay President Mohammad Qayoumi on STEM education
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers - part 1
- Diane Ravitch on education reform and misguided reformers-part 2
- State Sen. Joe Simitian on what's at stake with a June tax measure
- Parent Revolution's Gabe Rose suspects trouble for Parent Trigger
- Michael Kirst on his and State Board of Education's priorities and vision for reform
- Author and Stanford emeritus professor Larry Cuban cuts through 'the hype' on school reforms
- Ted Mitchell on the State Board of Education's policy to encourage comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations
- PACE's David Plank on how new assessments will measure and shape learning
- Emily Jones of 'Waiting for Superman' on why she entered the lottery for Summit Prep Charter High in Redwood City
- Part II: Tom Torlakson on teacher evaluations, 'merit pay'
- State superintendent candidate Tom Torlakson on his priorities, starting with settling the finance suit on funding education
- Part II: State Superintendent candidate Larry Aceves on charter schools, funding lawsuit
- State Superintendent candidate Larry Aceves on teacher evaluations, NCLB, his priorities for the job
- ConnectEd's Gary Hoachlander on high schools of the future
- Chuck Weis on lawsuit challenging state funding
- Ze'ev Wurman on common-core standards
- State Superintendent Jack O'Connell looks back – and ahead
- Derek Mitchell, Partners in School Innovation, on teacher collaboration
- Stephanie Couch on STEM Education in California
- Foothill College President Judy Miner on the impact of budget cuts
- Linda Murray: Districts should adopt the a-g curriculum
- Eric Hanushek on pitfalls of adequacy suits
- Part 1: Ted Mitchell, State School Board president, on Race to the Top
- Part 2: President of California State School Board, Ted Mitchell, on Race to the Top
Category: Workforce preparation
- Another report urges changing API
- Next step for Student Success Act
- Eliminating second-year science mandate is fast fix with long-term damage
- Adult education’s existential crisis
- CA millions of degrees short
- Career- and college-ready: Are they synonymous or different?
- In & out of step with top ed systems
- Martha Kanter on improving college access
- College demand "unstoppable"
- Low college transfer rate dissected
- California Partnership Academies: They're effective – and threatened
- Community wins Promise grant
- Bringing diversity into teaching
- No guarantee for career academies
- High marks for CTE academies
- Community colleges get job grants
- Worldwide college rates pass us by
- Baker's dozen bills before Brown
- Steinberg's SB 547 broadens accountability beyond test obsession
- A schism on college readiness
- Career tech turns to ratepayers
- Shortage of vocational degrees
- 'College for all' strategy misguided
- Partnership academies face squeeze
- Protect higher ed for you own sake, boomers
- Part 2: President of California State School Board, Ted Mitchell, on Race to the Top
