December 2009
Teacher technicality: Educators with high-level training and experience seek change in state rules to allow them full licenses »
December 26, 2009
Jennifer Smith Richards
The Columbus Dispatch
KIPP Journey Academy teacher Jenna Davis says of licensing: “It’s the enigma of it all. Just tell me what I need to do.”
Teachers at KIPP Journey Academy have college degrees in areas such as education, philosophy, political science, communication and business. Many have master’s degrees in education.
They have experience [...]
Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them »
12/21/09
New York Times
Benedict Carey
BUFFALO - Many 4-year-olds cannot count up to their own age when they arrive at preschool, and those at the Stanley M. Makowski Early Childhood Center are hardly prodigies. Most live in this city’s poorer districts and begin their academic life well behind the curve.
But there they were on a recent Wednesday morning, [...]
Ohio’s Wells Elementary School highlighted in “How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools” »
Harvard Education Letter
Volume 25, Number 5
September/October 2009
Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools
An Interview with Karin Chenoweth
By CHRIS RAND
In her 2007 book, “It’s Being Done”: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, former Washington Post columnist and Education Trust senior writer Karin Chenoweth used a strict set of criteria to identify fifteen schools with challenging student demographics that were [...]
Columbus school board balks at theater plan: Superintendent’s request for $8 million go-ahead surprises members »
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The Columbus Dispatch
Bill Bush
Under Columbus schools’ “policy governance” method of oversight, Superintendent Gene Harris is supposed to run the district with minimal interference from school board members.
But Harris learned last night that doesn’t extend to building a 2,500-seat theater for student productions and staff meetings.
In what was a rare moment of [...]
