Soul-Searching at the National Board for Education Sciences
At yesterday’s meeting of the National Board for Education Sciences, board members mused on some possible new directions for managing federal education research.
The Story I Won’t Write About Clark County Schools
The Clark County School District in Las Vegas, which has many English-language learners, met adequate yearly progress goals overall under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2007 and 2008 but announced last week it failed to make AYP in 2009.
While I Was Away: ELLs and Immigrants in the Spotlight
News and report releases about ELLs or immigrants didn’t stop while I was on a two-week vacation. Here are a few noteworthy items: —National Public Radio featured Francisco Ruiz, an English-as-a-second-language teacher at Boston’s English High School who tries to…
Is Think Tank Research Muscling In on the Media?
Think tank studies aren’t dominating news coverage, says a new report, but they may get more than their share of the spotlight.
ISO from IES: State Applications for Data-System Grants
The Institute of Education Sciences put out a request today for applications from states looking for grants of up to $9 million to build statewide longitudinal systems for tracking student-level data.
New Guidance for EETT Released
The U.S. Department of Education released new non-regulatory guidance for the $650 million in federal economic-stimulus funds targeted to the Enhancing Education Through Technology program.