One of my comps questions will deal with educational technology professional development.  In reading the Sparks and Hirsch article over at the National Staff Development Council’s website, I was struck by their description of the attitude towards teachers:
“All too often, in their zeal for visible reforms, educational leaders, policymakers, and the public have avoided the […]

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Tim over at Assorted Stuff directed me to the debate about how to deal with the ongoing issues related to teachers using technology. It started with Jeff Utrecht at TechLearning blogging about teachers’ fears in using technology. Then, David Warlick jumped in with something of a rant about being tired of hearing about […]

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Earlier this week, I wrote about the Odden and Picus editorial in a recent edition of Education Week.  They called for a linking between school finance and certain programs that are shown to have positive effects on student achievement such as class size and remediation.
This week’s Education Week (Vol 27, No. 2, 9/5/2007) has a […]

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In the August 15, 2007, edition of Education Week, Amy H. Greene and Glennon Doyle Melton describe their efforts to meet Adequate Yearly Progress at Annadale Terrace Elementary School, a Title I school in Fairfax County.  Their ideas about incorporating the genre of test language are laudable and, evidently, successful.  But their reasons for doing […]

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With comps looming in about ten days, I’m buckling down for the final study frenzy.  I started with reviewing my policy class.  A recent article in Education Week by Odden and Picus discussed the idea of school finance adequacy.  Their argument is that we actually know quite a bit about factors that are positively correlated […]

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