Duncan’s Decision on NCLB is the Right Call
Secretary Duncan made the right call when he announced plans to override the centerpiece requirement of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) school accountability law that requires 100 percent proficiency in math and reading by 2014.
I was working in the Washington D.C. area in 2002 when President Bush signed NCLB into law. I remember my colleagues...
Delaware Opens Door to Turnaround Partners
The Delaware Department of Education published a Request for Qualification (RFQ) for Lead Partner organizations to help turnaround student learning within our state’s lowest-performing schools chosen to participate in the Partnership Zone Initiative.
The RFI will solicit and evaluate proposals from interested Lead Partners, resulting in a list...
Introducing Brian Yin, Research Associate
"Good."
That was the response one of my students—we’ll call him Jeremiah (not his real name)—gave me on the last day of school when I asked him how his year had been. This one word described one of the most incredible and difficult years of my life.
As an educator, I tend to let my students' stories speak for me, because those are the...
World Class Data Analysis Coming to Delaware
The Delaware Department of Education has partnered with Harvard’s Strategic Data Project to bring world-class data analysis to Delaware – with a desire to focus on preparing students to graduate from high school with the knowledge and skills to enroll in, persist at, and complete higher education.
These efforts, which should parallel...