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AJC special report: SAT scores rise with family wealth. A notable exception in state: Norcross High
The AJC education team looked at recently released 2013 SAT scores for metro Atlanta high schools and found something that critics have long said: Scores are closely tied to a factor beyond any student's aptitude: the amount of money their parents have. For its special report, the newspaper matched high ...
Cherokee board member incurs censure, fine. And Kelly Marlow still faces more trouble ahead.
Many Cherokee parents probably hope their school board sideshow ends. But there are a few more acts left in the tragicomedy starring board member Kelly Marlow. Her colleagues voted this week to censure and fine her for ethical violations. One of her violations was sending a letter to the district’s accrediting ...
Remember the 'I Quit Teach for America' essay? Here's the counterpoint. 'I stayed.'
Tre Tennyson spent two years with Teach for America at an Atlanta school and is planning now to teach in China. He wrote this piece in response to a former TFA at the same APS school where he taught who wrote about why she bailed out of the program a ...
High school: Can't we make it better?
I have been talking to metro Atlanta teens at every opportunity and I am hearing the same stories about their high schools. Classes are big. Teachers can’t teach because of unruly students. Teachers tell me that their administrators are pushing them to teach to higher standards and assign more meaningful ...
Lessons from abroad: Effort over talent
After living in Japan for five years, where praise of children was spare and authentic, writer Christine Gross-Loh returned home to the United States where children earn trophies for matching their socks. At a visit to the local shopping center, for instance, Gross-Loh watched with surprise as a father congratulated ...
Moderate reformers need to jump into polarized education debate where truth gets trampled
The best thing you will read about the education debate this week. This essay from Education Week is by David Rutkowski, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington, and Leslie Rutkowski, an assistant professor of inquiry methodology at the university. Please go to Ed ...
A matter of time: Should school start later for sleep-starved teens?
School buses begin rolling before dawn in many Georgia communities where high school students are due in class by 7:30 a.m. Research shows that adolescents and teens do better with later school starting times, but administrative needs, bus schedules and after-school activities often collude to prevent any major tinkering with ...
U.S. Ed Secretary Arne Duncan: Petty politics in Washington hurting our children
Here is a condensed version of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's comments today to the National Press Club: (You can read the full speech here. ) In what seems to have become an annual ritual, I’m here again today to report on the state of education in America. What I ...
A banned book is back on the shelves in North Carolina after national outcry
Anthony Hatcher is an associate professor of communications at Elon University. Below he shares his view on the rationale of the Randolph County, N.C., school board in banning Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man” from its schools. Last week, the board reversed itself in a special meeting reported in detail ...
Saving Morris Brown. Its alumni rally around the college
Morris Brown College, which filed for bankruptcy protection last summer, is facing serious challenges. As the AJC reported in July: Founded in 1881 by members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, today Morris Brown is a shell of its former self. At least two former college administrators, Dolores Cross, president ...
"These kids are good organs in a sick body."
A passionate plea about bilingual education. I am interested in what ELL teachers think of this speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo3KFUzyMUI
A coach takes a stand after players involved in bullying, disrespect
Here is an inspiring story from the Deseret News in Utah of a caring football coach. In a subsequent story, the Deseret News reports that most of the players earned back their jerseys and their spots on the team after community service, a class on character and improved school performance ...
Flawed exams support phony school accountability
Robert Schaeffer is public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest). He wrote this after reading AJC reporter Heather Vogell's series on testing flaws. The "Testing the Test" series took a year to report and concluded today. You can read it at MyAJC.com. By Robert ...
Dawg fans on campus: Fewer going to games. Are they studying instead?
My AJC colleague Bill King explored this issue in June in his Junkyard Blawg, but the Wall Street Journal looks at it today. Why are fewer students in SEC schools, including the University of Georgia, attending football games? Could it be they’re using their Saturday afternoons to study? Unfortunately, that ...
How did your district and school do on SAT? Here are the results. Forsyth County leads state.
Take a look at state SAT scores by district here. Here are school-level SAT results. For those who want a deeper dive into the 2013 data, I just added the Georgia state report to my Google docs. Take a look. We are discussing the SAT performance at a previous blog ...
SAT scores flat in Georgia, nation. Too few kids taking higher-level courses?
Folks, Just uploaded the scores by district and by school. Check them out here. Despite a national effort to raise high school rigor, the SAT, treated as a key barometer of student progress, refuses to budge. The average national score on the high-stakes college admissions test has remained virtually unchanged ...
In defense of tests: Short and frequent testing improves learning.
Today is the day for thought-provoking reading. Here is another piece that I urge you to read. At NewRepublic.com, Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, writes in defense of testing -- but not the Big Tests that leave students quaking and that drive the modern ...
A former Teach for America teacher on how TFA and APS fail their ideals
Make time to read writer Olivia Blanchard's excellent essay in the Atlantic about why she quit Teach for America after teaching one year in Atlanta. While she cites Atlanta's pressure-cooker environment, Blanchard also targets the quality and quantity of training she received from TFA and questions whether the organization really ...
Congrats to 9 Blue Ribbon Schools in Georgia
Congrats to the 2013 Public and Private National Blue Ribbon Schools from Georgia, most of which are in metro Atlanta. Daves Creek Elementary School, Cumming, Forsyth County Schools Fair Oaks Elementary School, Marietta, Cobb County Schools Marietta Center for Advanced Academics, Marietta, Marietta City Schools Middle Ridge Elementary School, Covington, ...
Must schools be these horrible, boring places? Apparently, yes. It's in their DNA
A platinum-plated panel of education reformers, innovators and commentators shared the same message today and last night at the colab summit in Atlanta: Our schools are broken. Sir Ken Robinson delivered the pronouncement with wit and a British accent. “If you were running a business the way we are running ...
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