Remote-control system gets elementary kids more involved in their learning
The Columbus Dispatch
November 19, 2007
By Holly Zachariah
MILFORD CENTER, Ohio — Debbie Hegenderfer’s students need help. They think the British won the Revolutionary War.
She knows this because she asked her fourth-graders a series of questions about the war. Instead of writing down or calling out […]

Citing Decline Among Older Kids, NEA Report Warns of Dire Effects
The Washington Post
November 19, 2007
By Bob Thompson
Americans are reading less and their reading proficiency is declining at troubling rates, according to a report that the National Endowment for the Arts will issue today. The trend is particularly strong among older teens and young adults, […]

The Detroit News
Monday, November 19, 2007
Imagine an education army, marching on hundreds of students’ homes, to make sure teachers and parents are working together to successfully graduate every teenager in their city.
On a brisk Saturday in Cleveland last month, that is exactly what happened. Cleveland Metropolitan Public Schools educators — from the district superintendent down […]

The Washington Post
11/19/07
By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
In the charter school movement’s endless quest to recruit students, some of the best independent public schools support each other by word of mouth. The KIPP DC: KEY Academy, a high-performing middle school, has sent 15 graduates to Washington Mathematics Science Technology, one of the better charter high […]

Charter startup audit tracks costs
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
11/18/2007
By Bill Bush
Would-be Ohio charter-school operators received a total of $2.55 million in state and federal “planning grants” to start 33 schools that never opened, state records show.
That’s nearly 10 percent of the 352 grants issued and doesn’t include planning money for schools that have opened and closed.
The […]