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Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2007
When Erik G. Brown launched his teaching career at the Cesar Chavez Academy in East Palo Alto, California, four years ago, he was not alone. Seventy-five percent of the teachers in the 400-student middle school were new to the district, and two-thirds of those were new to the field. The school had gone through six principals in six years, and its…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Persistence
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2007
This article discusses teachers' use of hand-held computers in a rural New Mexico district to assess student's reading progress. With the help of a federal Reading First grant, the district began using the DIBELS assessments across its elementary schools along with the mCLASS: DIBELS assessment and reporting system. The district's experience helps…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Student Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
Faced with stiffer economic competition and worried about the skills of their future workforces, many states are trying to connect education from preschool through postsecondary so that more students are prepared for further study, work, and citizenship. In the past decade, 30 states have created what are often called "P-16" councils or …
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), State Government, Educational Policy, College Preparation
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
The proportion of public schools' meeting their prescribed achievement targets under the No Child Left Behind Act appears to have fallen slightly in the 2005-06 school year, while the percent classified under the law as needing improvement increased. The trends bear out earlier predictions that schools would find it increasingly hard to show…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Public Schools, Accountability
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
During workshops held in March and April of 2005, Michigan educators got a lesson in how to benchmark their work against promising practices in higher-performing schools with similar socioeconomic profiles. Teams of teachers, educational supervisors, and principals from 13 elementary and middle schools that had been struggling to make adequate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Evaluators, Educational Improvement, Data Analysis