Districts unsure where middle grades work best 12/23/2007 By Simone Sebastian and Encarnacion Pyle The Columbus Dispatch In 1909, the Columbus schools opened the nation’s first junior high. Educators thought it would reduce the number of students who dropped out before ninth grade. Seventy years later, junior high schools were squashed. Middle schools opened, and [...]

 12/23/2007 By Sam Dillon WASHINGTON – Teachers cheered Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she stepped before them last month at an elementary school in Waterloo, Iowa, and said she would “end” the No Child Left Behind Act because it was “just not working.” Mrs. Clinton is not the only presidential candidate who has found attacking [...]

 The New York Times December 20, 2007 By KAREN W. ARENSON Taking the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships as a model, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton is creating a fellowship program that it hopes will lure top students into teaching and transform teacher education in the United States. “Research shows that providing excellent teachers [...]

 Suburban News Publications 12/20/07 By KHALILA PERRIN       It won’t be long before Columbus City School parents and students can try their luck. Applications for the district’s school-lottery process are expected to be available soon, said district spokesman Jeff Warner. “They will be out in the first couple weeks of January,” he said. District officials are [...]

Education Week Vol. 27, Issue 08, Page 17 By Erik W. Robelen Ohio’s new attorney general is turning to the court system to shut down charter schools he argues have shown consistently poor academic results, using what appears to be a novel legal strategy that some analysts suggest could be attempted in other states. In [...]