As many of you know, the HOPE Foundation provides world class conferences for educators featuring national leaders in education. Recently, my former colleagues from my time as a Superintendent of Schools returned from an exciting time in Atlanta at the latest HOPE conference.
Here is what Wendy had to say:
I have been an educator for 16 years. [...]
Tags: Alan Blankstein · assessment · conferences · education · educational leaderhsip · fun · HOPE Foundation · poverty and student achievement · professional development · school improvement · Shaping America's Future IV · teachers · training
When I was superintendent we did a neat little piece of action research on our Reading program. We were training/educating teachers on several different critical teaching behaviors in Reading. We then had our instructional coaches rate each teacher on these critical teaching behaviors and then put all the individual student reading achievement scores into Excel [...]
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Everyone knows that the more education you have the higher the odds are that your lifetime earnings will be higher. Yet simply trying to “cure” poverty with education alone has had limited success.
American Prospect has an interesting article that explains some of the strengths and limitations of using education as a means of pulling people [...]
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The Washington Post yesterday posted an article describing some new research which some hope will shed some light on factors that influence students living in poverty. Researchers have long recognized that there are strong correlations between poverty and student achievement, but identifying the factors that connect these two is more difficult to nail down. Some [...]
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