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EWA Announces 2009 National Awards Contest Winners!
EWA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 National Awards for Education Reporting. Prizes, including the announcement of the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize, will be awarded at EWA's National Seminar Saturday, May 15.
EWA's 63rd National Seminar, San Francisco, California
Participants will be "Examining the Evidence" at EWA's 63rd annual meeting in San Francisco May 13-15, 2010. Sessions for this year's meeting will be held at the Hotel Kabuki in Japantown. The conference will examine issues around the philosophy of the US Department of Education's "Race to the Top," as well as focusing on how colleges should take responsibility for student success. For more details on conference registration, speakers, agenda and sponsorship, check out our 2010 guidelines.
EWA Announces New Directions, Search for new Executive Director
The EWA Board of Directors announced today it will shift from a traditional membership organization to an open community, embracing a wider net of people concerned about the quality of education information. Learn more here.
Tracking Education Stimulus Spending
If the federal government gave your school (or school district) a lot of money with few strings to help it through the bad economy, would you want to know how that money was spent? EdMoney, a new project of EWA, tracks spending in public schools across the country to help reporters find answers to their questions. Let us know what you've found by uploading your stories, tips and commenting on the EdMoney blog.
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New Orleans charter schools work to sustain teachers' energy, results Early every morning, Akili Academy's teachers gather for a daily bonding ritual. A growing number of schools particularly charters, embrace a "no excuses" or "whatever it takes" attitude toward closing the achievement gap between poor, minority students and their wealthier peers. But to overcome these obstacles, a school's staff and students must work harder -- in the evenings, on weekends and through the summer -- and give up some of their personal lives for their jobs. Sarah Carr, Times- Picayune, March 9, 2010
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16 Finalists Announced in Phase 1 of Race to the Top Competition Finalists The U.S. Department of Education announced that 15 states and the District of Columbia will advance as finalists for Phase 1 of the Race to the Top competition. US Department of Education, March 4, 2010
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Scholar’s School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate Diane Ravitch, the education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration’s Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow-motion about-face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling. Sam Dillon, The New York Times, March 3, 2010
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Building a Better Teacher On a winter day five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem. After a successful career as a teacher, a principal and a charter-school founder, he was working as a consultant, hired by troubled schools eager — desperate, in some cases — for Lemov to tell them what to do to get better. He tried to figure out what he could do to help. He knew how to advise schools to adopt a better curriculum or raise standards or develop better communication channels between teachers and principals. But he realized that he had no clue how to advise schools about their main event: how to teach. Elizabeth Green, for the New York Times Magazine, March 3, 2010.
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