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Closing Time
The reality is, school districts close schools for many reasons: tight budgets, low performance, underenrollment. Once the decision is made, the question becomes: How do you do it right? (from Ed. magazine.) |
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Harvard EdCast: Leave No Child Behind 
Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, reflects on her work, her life, her leadership, and the remarkable number of commencement addresses she has delivered. |
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What Can the Federal Government Do Well?
Education Week, May 31, 2011
Last week I was in D.C. for a conference hosted by Rick Hess and AEI that aimed to derive lessons from 50 years of federal government involvement in schooling. The adjective in the title is “sobering” (sobering lessons), and the tone of the conference was fairly bleak. Speaker after speaker, from the left as well as the right, talked about the inability of the federal government to generate on the ground improvement in schooling,” writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.
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Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap
Education Week, May 27, 2011
“We have set the nation’s highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,” writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville. |
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Tests for Pupils, but the Grades Go to Teachers
New York Times, May 23, 2011
“‘When you give kids complicated tasks to do, performance tends to be quite inconsistent from one task to the next,’ [Professor Daniel] Koretz said. That makes it hard to use the test to draw broader conclusions about how much a student is learning, unless the test is long enough to include many tasks, he said.” |
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Class Leader
Boston Globe, May 22, 2011
"Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney wants to get students out of the classroom as soon as she can." |
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Redesigning High Schools for Improved Instruction
June 26–July 1, 2011
Learn the theories, knowledge, tools and practices necessary to redesign high schools so they can become powerful learning environments for students, teachers and instructional leaders.
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Improving Schools: The Art of Leadership
June 26–July 2, 2011
Designed for school leaders in the early stages of their careers, the institute will help you to expand your leadership skills, explore how to enhance student learning and create success for yourself and your school.
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Leadership: An Evolving Vision
July 6–12, 2011
Designed for experienced school leaders, you will strengthen your leadership and management skills and revitalize your personal vision of leadership.
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Harvard Education Letter: Using Research to Predict Great Teachers In an online exclusive from Harvard Education Letter, education journalist Laura Pappano discusses using predictive research to help find teachers who are most likely to be effective with students and remain with the organization.
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Harvard Education Press: I Used to Think...and Now I Think...In this provocative new book, Professor Richard Elmore invites leading educators at every level of school reform — teachers, administrators, policymakers, school founders, community organizers, union leaders, teacher educators — to share their intimate reflections on the personal experiences and intellectual journeys that have shaped their practice.
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Let's Focus on Gaps in Opportunity Education Week featured a commentary from Harvard Education Press author Richard Milner on the importance of focusing on achievement gaps instead of opportunity gaps. "Research tells us again and again that when students do not achieve, their underachievement is a function of the opportunities that they either have — or have not had.” |
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