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Eight Tips for School Leaders in New Public Agenda Report
A new report from Public Agenda urges education leaders to engage communities as a way to help transform persistently failing schools. The report is compiled out of the best outreach practices from...
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Principal Training Report Slammed by NEPC
A report that proposes a range of policies to improve principals’ preparation ignores existing research, lacks evidence and sidesteps both state and professional policies that directly address the...
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The Global Search for Education: More from Finland
"Nurturing innovation is an important priority for us in our school system" -- Tapio Kosunen Nations around the world continue to re-think and reform education policies to better prepare children for...
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Education Pioneers Marks 10k Application in 4 Year Milestone
Education Pioneers has announced that it has received over 10,000 applications for its prestigious Fellowship programs in the 4 year period since 2008. This includes more than 4,000 top graduate...
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Principals Ask to be Given a Louder Voice in School Reform
Is the primary motivation behind the school reform movement financial? asks Carol Burris in an editorial for the Washington Post. A recent commercial released by former Washington D.C’s chancellor of...
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Pennsylvania Drops Ed Graduate Degree Reqs for Superintendents
A law in Pennsylvania is dropping the requirement that a candidate must have a graduate degree in education before being allowed to become a district superintendent. Instead, a candidate will be...
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John Jensen: Administrators, a Metric to Change Your District Rapidly
Source: DangerouslyIrrelevant.org by John Jensen Making numbers useful. Before we examine a number, we need to understand what makes it useful. There is no limit to accurate numbers offering zero...
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Some Oklahoma Superintendents Oppose New Assessment System
Superintendents of districts across Oklahoma gathered together in the conference room at the State School Boards Association to express their dissatisfaction with the numerical formula used to...
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New York Supers Fear Financial Burden of New Academic Reqs
A recent poll of New York State Superintendents found that many fear their districts will be unable to continue functioning if they are forced to fund the whole slew of education mandates recently...
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Gove Outlines Vision for Radical UK Education Reform
Michael Gove has made his intentions clear for the UK’s education system. He envisions an school system where power is handed back to education professionals and where, if they can maintain high...
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One Fifth of DC Schools Starting the Year With New Principals
Late last spring, Washington D.C. school officials reported that 16 schools around the district would lose their principals over the summer. Although at least one of those predicted to be leaving...
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NYC’s Fariña Shakes Up City’s School Superintendents
New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña has announced that 15 out of 42 superintendents in NYC schools are being replaced. Over the summer Fariña announced every superintendent would have to reapply...
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Sentencing of Corrupt San Ysidro Ex-Superintendent Postponed
The sentencing hearing of corrupt ex-San Ysidro, California superintendent Manuel Paul has been pushed back from December 25th to January 13th. The motion was approved by federal court judge William...
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GAO Report Shows Reasons for Accreditor Sanctions
In a new report, the United States Government Accountability Office discovered that between October 2009 and March 2014, schools with lower academic outcomes were no more likely to have been...
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Connecticut Principal Arrested After Stealing $10k for Casino Spree
Marilyn Taylor, the principal at Dunbar Elementary School, has been apprehended on the count of pilfering thousands of dollars from the school fundraising account. City officials accused the principal...
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Omaha Superintendent Apologizes to Parent After Confrontation
Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Mark Evans recently apologized to a parent who claimed the superintendent confronted him after he spoke out against his school’s principal. Evans discussed the...
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Results, Fewer Suspensions Mean Raise for San Fran Super
The San Francisco Unified School District School Board has unanimously granted Superintendent Richard Carranza a 27% raise, boosting his current salary by $65,000. Now, in his third year in the...
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LA Unified School Board Election May Hinge on iPad Debacle
While charter school backers and teachers unions are on opposite sides of the upcoming school board elections in Los Angeles, both sides consider the district’s iPad debacle as the key to winning. One...
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Palm Beach, Florida’s New Superintendent Has Ambitious Plan
Newly-minted Palm Beach, Florida School Superintendent Dr. Robert Avossa announced his 90-day plan to improve the district by putting teaching first. The superintendent took the job just one week ago,...
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Teacher Home Visits Help Build School-Family Relationships
In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 90% of the children at Hobgood Elementary School are from low-income households, and principal Tammy Garrett says this creates a challenge. Blake Farmer, writing for...
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