Performance-Pay Model Shows No Achievement Edge
Education Week reports that “preliminary results from a Chicago program containing performance-based compensation for teachers show no evidence that it has boosted student achievement on math and reading tests, compared with a group of similar, nonparticipating schools, an analysis released today concludes.”
The DC Public Charter School Board report a 2009 enrollment of 27,953, while
DCPS says the school system’s October count is 45,772.
The District of Columbia government has made a commitment to radically increase the number of district graduates attending and completing college. The “Double the Numbers” initiative spans two mayors and is actively supported by district and federal agencies and nonprofits and private businesses.
Ensuring that our high schools are aligning courses, teaching styles and standards to [...]
Rethinking High School: Preparing Students for Success in College, Career, and Life
This is the fourth report in a series focusing on secondary reform and redesign. Previous Rethinking High School reports include:
Rethinking High School: An Introduction to New York City’s Experience
Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Innovative Models for Student Success
Rethinking High School: Inaugural Graduations at [...]
The program planning team at Eastern HS have been discussing:
A full high school curriculum that prepares students for college and career selection. Eastern HS will not be an application high school and will be a school-of-right for neighborhoods of Ward 6.
A Freshman Campus with staff who will support 9th graders as they adjust to high [...]
The District’s Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization (OPEFM) reports that it has successfully used modular classrooms while modernizing school facilities. Moving students to on-campus modular classrooms rather than maintaining them in their school while it was under construction, sheltered students, administrators and teachers from noise and dust caused as work crews modernized their facility. [...]
Community Design Forum for Eastern HS
August 5, 6-8:00 p.m.
Mount Moriah Baptist Church at 1636 East Capitol Street, NE
Eastern HS Programs Advisory Team
Meeting Schedule
All meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of the month, at 6pm
Mount Moriah Baptist Church at 1636 East Capitol Street, NE
March 31, 2009 November 17, 2009
April 28, [...]
October 7 Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods, and the Future of DC Event
Panel moderator Alice Rivilin called his comments provocative and audience members protested their implications, yet Institute for Education Science commissioner Mark Schneider asserted his academic prerogative to question assumptions and recommendations of the newly released report, Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods, and the Future of [...]
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