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Reason
April 2006
Lisa Snell |
Meet Arlene Ackerman An interview with San Francisco's superintendent of schools on the implementation and impact of the weighted student formula as well as the future of school choice in that city.   |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Title I-- and Then Some School districts are getting creative in finding ways to finance technology purchases, blending Title I dollars with money from numerous other funding sources. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 30, 2009
Bridget McCrea |
By the Book: Technology Helps North Carolina School Close the Reading Gap Predictive Assessment of Reading can quickly determine if a child is deficient in phonics, lacking in fluency or in need of more vocabulary instruction. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 7, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Netbooks All Around Missouri-based North Kansas City Schools with a total of 18,000 students, kicked off its 1:1 initiative about two years ago in an effort to equip all 5,600 of its high school students with netbooks. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 28, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
By the Book: Exploring One School's Success with a Technology-Based Reading Program The Web-based Lexia Reading includes three different levels (early reading, primary reading, and strategies for older students) and is designed to help students acquire and improve foundational reading skills. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 4, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011
John Hechinger |
Education According to Mike Milken With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is that a good thing? |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Molly Peterson |
KIPP: Learning a Lesson from Big Business The charter school powerhouse uses motivational techniques inspired by America's top corporations, to impressive effect. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2011
Brian Stoffel |
Shame of a Nation A New York Times article ironically shows how far we still have to go. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Lisa Snell |
Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 14, 2008
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
Reason
June 2005
Lisa Snell |
How Schools Cheat From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 1, 2010
Christine Fox |
Alabama Gets on Board The changes seen in the Roanoke City Schools in the four years since Tools for Life was launched are remarkable. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |
Reason
February 2002
Joanne Jacobs |
Watching the Numbers Unlike district schools, San Francisco's Edison Charter must succeed to survive... |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Real Costs of College A net price calculator allows clients to look beyond sticker prices to focus on the only price that matters to a mom and dad: the price they'll pay for their child to attend college. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2009
Christine Fox |
More Than Machines Comprehensive technology integration programs go beyond laptop initiatives to provide teachers with the support they need to improve student engagement and achievement. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Jeff Weinstock |
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Mission Accomplished Two districts, one goal: to use data to drive decision-making. Both have achieved breakthroughs, discovering new ways to draw insights from student performance, and then step in to better it. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2006
Michelle Gamble-Risley |
Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time. |
Reason
October 2004
Lisa Snell |
No Way Out The No Child Left Behind Act provides only the illusion of school choice. |
Financial Advisor
January 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 16, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
T.H.E. Journal
September 9, 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics. |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 1, 2010
John K. Waters |
Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 29, 2009
David Nagel |
Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Savings Don't Hurt Chances For Financial Aid Clients will be in a far better position and enjoy more college options if they've saved for their child's college education. Here's why. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Important Change in Financial Aid What President Obama did by signing an executive order in September to make two seemingly simple changes to the FAFSA process can potentially reap huge benefits to your families with college applicants. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
Susan Brooks-Young |
Help Wanted For an alarming number of new teachers, the school gates have turned into a revolving door. Here's how technology can assist districts in addressing the reasons for the rampant turnover. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
Laura Vanderkam |
Earning Their Keep A new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition. |
Reason
July 2009
Lisa Snell |
The Graduates Charter school success |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
Meg Robbins |
The failure of testing President Bush wants to "test every child, every year." But a growing movement of families and teachers insists this is a formula for mediocre schooling and stressed-out kids. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2009
Jennifer Demski |
Assess. Instruct. Repeat. In response to new federal rules mandating organizations retain their electronic documents, districts are using outside providers to archive their in-house e-mails. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2005
Jo Ann Reese |
Making a Difference One Student at a Time St. Louis Public Schools expands the eMINTS (enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies) program to boost student achievement throughout the urban district. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2, 2009
David Nagel |
Are Schools Preparing Students for 21st Century Learning? While more than half of America's school principal's say they are doing a good job preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agree. |
National Defense
June 2008
Alan L. Gropman |
Waning Education Standards Threaten U.S. Competitiveness High-quality education is critical to national security, and the United States must address a number of challenges in its educational system if it wants to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and in key technologies. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 1, 2010 |
Floydada ISD Named Winner of 2010 Sylvia Charp Award The small West Texas district's 1-to-1 computing program is helping to put an increasing number of its students on the path to college. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 26, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning's MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2003
Kay Woodfield |
Getting On Board With Online Testing Like most technology being adopted in education, computerized testing has the potential to improve individual student learning. That was Idaho's goal when it selected a new Internet-enabled state test in spring 2002. |
