Afternoon Announcements: July 10, 2012

It really feels like a Tuesday today, and guess what? It is! Funny how that works out sometimes. Conveniently, it also feels like there are some announcements to make in the world of education policy and research today, and there are! Two for two on a Tuesday.

Two reports released recently detail the alarming cuts slated for the Department of Education (along with the rest of the federal government’s agencies) if sequestration (or across-the-board spending cuts) isn’t avoided by Congress. Education Week has the report on these reports from the American Association of School Administrators and the National Education Association.

Afternoon Announcements: December 9, 2011

In just a matter of hours you can kick back and relax for the weekend; you've earned it. In the meantime, enjoy the winding down of the work week with the latest in education news.

Schools around the country are venturing away from requiring students to "test out" of a grade or graduate in general. According to Education Week, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee are changing their policies so that students will no longer be required to take those tests, according to a new report by the Center on Education Policy.

Afternoon Announcements: July 5, 2011

Today, the Boston Globe reports that more than half of the teachers pushed out of seven underperforming schools in Boston last year now work at other low-achieving schools across the city that are also under pressure to improve.

Tennessee schools eye waiver for No Child Left Behind, according to the Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the National Education Association affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of schoolteachers around the country.

Morning Announcements: May 12, 2011

In his School of Thought blog with TIME magazine, Andrew Rotherham answers the question, "Why the Hispanic Student Crisis Is Going Ignored".

The National Education Association officials announced that they would put a policy statement before the union's governing body for approval that, among other changes, would open the door to the use of "valid, reliable, high-quality standardized tests," in combination with multiple other measures, for evaluating teachers, Education Week reports.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that President Obama will deliver a commencement address to Students at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.