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Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2010
The author reports a federal competition that has opened for $350 million in federal money to design new ways of assessing what students learn. Rules for the contest make clear that the government wants to leave behind multiple-choice testing more often in favor of essays, multidisciplinary projects, and other more nuanced measures of achievement.…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Educational Finance, Grants, Competition
Davis, Michelle R. – Education Week, 2006
The Department of Education's May 2, 2006 announcement of a variety of methods that high schools may use to provide a "rigorous" curriculum to allow low-income graduates to qualify for a new federal college-grant program was welcome news to those who had feared that the government's reach into the classroom was too expansive. Students who complete…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Secondary School Curriculum, Low Income Groups
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2005
When educators from across the country, and even other nations, are looking for ideas on how to blend career and technical training with demanding academics, their search often takes them to this rural pocket of southern Delaware, the home of Sussex Technical High School. Fifteen years after overhauling its mission, this school framed by fields…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Financial Support, Federal Aid
Hendrie, Caroline – Education Week, 2004
Prodded by an outpouring of philanthropic and federal largess, school districts and even some states are downsizing public high schools to combat high dropout rates and low levels of student achievement, especially in big- city school systems. For longtime proponents of small schools, the upswell in support for their ideas is making for heady…
Descriptors: High Schools, Small Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change