2009

July

• A guide to developing school-to-community partnerships

June

• Resources for bringing technology into your classroom

April

• A guide to getting published
• Latest trends in education, part 4
• Latest trends in education, part 3
• Latest trends in education, part 2

March

• Latest trends in education
• Responding to Obama’s education plan

February

• New Resources from Golden Apple

2008

December

• Incoming administration supports Early Childhood Education
• Schools to get share of stimulus package
• More schools fail to meet AYP
• Circuit Court hears NCLB case
• Duncan to be next Secretary of Education
• TIMSS results show little US improvement
• Are unions really the bogeyman?
• How valuable are high school community service hours?

November

• Who will be Secretary of Education?
• Creationism is still not science
• Will Merit Pay Make a Comeback?
• Is “Reading First” a Failure?
• Test scores improve, but is that helping students?
• What can educators expect from the Obama administration?
• The joy of voting

October

• How do we acquire the best teachers?
• Presidential candidates’ educational policies
• Golden Apple Fellow Cheryl D. Watkins chosen for Milken National Educator Award
• Will CPS middle-school teachers be required to go back to college?
• Angels Under Fire - How do we get literature students to become contemplative readers?
• Con-con vote - How might it affect teachers?
• Report on House Education Committee budget hearing
• PSAE Scores - do they tell us anything useful?
• Elementary Turnaround School Principals Needed

September

• Superintendent turnover is becoming a problem
• STEM education - Beyond School Time
• How do we retain new teachers?
• Teaching Recognized as National Service
• Public hearings scheduled on school-funding reforms
• National Student/Parent Mock Election - October 30, 2008
• Paying for Grades - Will It Create Successful Students?
• Cell phones in the classroom
• Further discussion on inequitable school funding
• Same-sex classes growing in number nationally

August

• School funding in Illinois generates suggested boycott, lawsuit
• Energy costs are affecting our schools
• One Million ISAT exams to be regraded.
• Google Teacher Academy - Applications Now Being Accepted
• summer musing

July

• Teacher pensions are underfunded too
• Carnival of Education - see resources section
• Public School Funding
• What is the purpose of public education?
• Carnival of Education - see resources section
• Teacher preparation
• Carnival of Education
• Poll on school effectiveness
• Federal education policy
• Carnival of Education

June

• Academic capital
• Class size, class culture
• Carnival of Education
• What are you doing this summer?
• This just doesn’t make sense
• Gender and education
• Carnival of Education
• A broader, bolder approach?
• Imaginative education system fixes
• Big rally a big waste?
• Carnival of Education
• Where is the career ladder for teachers?
• “I’m not a social worker”
• That kid
• Carnival of Education
• Interdisciplinary learning

May

• Realism about 21st Century Schools
• Carnival of Education
• ACT prep: too much, too late
• Surprising (or not) news about science teachers
• End of the year anxieties
• Carnival of Education
• Youtube activism
• Everyone wants to be in Teach for America
• Changing jobs?
• Carnival of Education
• Elitism
• Middle ground on learning styles?
• Teachers speak on evaluation, unions, and reform
• Carnival of Education
• Reviving the Dream for Immigrant Students
• Carnival of Education
• More on Bill: Teaching for social justice

April

• The Bill Ayers controversy
• Reframing the conversation on contracts
• Nation at Risk
• Carnival of Education - High Expectations
• Understanding and assessing
• New achievement gap research
• Carnival of Education
• Born to teach?
• Chicago high school transformation: a work in progress