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 ninth-graders were moved to […]

 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 act, President […]

 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 is the single most […]

 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 awaiting final dates for applications before […]

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 a state where […]