Posts Tagged ‘Education Week’
Trends & Indicators: High School Success
by NEBHE Staff
April 9, 2012
Updated April 2012 ...
New England public schools were expected to award more than 147,000 high school diplomas in 2008-09. Fully 78% of New England 9th-graders graduate from high school in the "normal" four years time, compared with 70% nationally. Nearly a dozen foreign countries outperform the U.S. in the percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds with a high ... Read MoreTags: Education Week, high school success, John O. Harney, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), OECD, Trends & Indicators | No Comments
Which Prof Has the Most Impact on Debates Over Schools? There’s a Ranking for That
by John O. Harney
January 4, 2012
The academic who contributed the most to public debates about schooling in 2011 was Stanford University education prof Linda Darling-Hammond, according to the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings.
The rankings were compiled by Frederick M. Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and published in Education Week, where Hess writes a blog.
Darling-Hammond ...
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