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Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2012
GreatSchools.org neatly ranks more than 136,000 traditional public, private, and charter schools nationwide on a scale of 1 to 10, based on state test scores. But what often draws readers are the gossipy insider comments posted by parents, students, and teachers, and the star ratings those commenters contribute. The growth of online school rating…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, Nonprofit Organizations, Classification
Tomassini, Jason – Education Week, 2012
"Educator day" is one of the most important and nerve-racking for the people taking part in Imagine K12, the biggest incubator program in the United States specifically for education technology startups. Many entrepreneurs in K-12 believe technology can solve education's problems, but don't work to understand those problems before prescribing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, School Business Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Networks
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2008
Mayor Cory A. Booker, a rising star in the Democratic Party nationally, has high hopes for the role education in general, and charters in particular, can play in efforts to revitalize this long-struggling city. He says that, eventually, he would like to see one-fourth of Newark's public school students attend high-performing charter schools. The…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, School Funds, Role of Education
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2009
Established in the 142,000-student Montgomery County, Maryland, district in 1999, peer assistance and review (PAR)--or "peer review," as it is occasionally called--is actually an old idea. In 1981, the then-president of the Toledo Federation of Teachers, Dal Lawrence, helped create the first PAR program. Almost 30 years later, only a…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Peer Evaluation, Unions, Presidents