We all know math skills are important, but how necessary are they to a student's future success? This one-pager for teachers and parents breaks down just how crucial math skills are for all students.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Math
Posted on 10 Dec | 0 commentsQuestions to ask your child's math teacher
Posted on 10 Dec | 0 comments
A helpful list of questions to help parents connect with their child's math teacher to ensure students get the assistance, instruction and preparation they need.
Partnership for Learning Releases "Improving the Odds" Policy Report
Posted on 08 Aug | 0 comments
In 2007, Partnership for Learning and the College & Work Ready Agenda released Improving the Odds: Preparing Washington Students for Family-Wage Jobs. In the report, we refuted the notion that a high school diploma is sufficient to ensure a family-wage job. Instead, the research made clear that, to earn a family-wage job, students must receive an education that prepares them to succeed in college and beyond.
Since the release of Improving the Odds, changing economic conditions have only increased the demand for family-wage jobs. Since 2007, the United States has faced one of the worst economic recessions since the Great Depression. This national recession has had ripple effects in Washington, and employment reports released through the spring and summer of 2011 have confirmed a slowdown in both the national and Washington state economies.
That's why Partnership for Learning has updated this important report. In Improving the Odds "2.0", we provide an analysis of the existing workforce needs and outline policies that Washington state must address if every student is to graduate prepared to succeed in our globally competitive economy.
To read this report, click here.
Schools in High Gear: Reforms That Work When They Work Together
Posted on 04 May | 0 comments
Leaders of five national organizations that serve as policy partners for the Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network co-authored the paper. They explain how the following core ideas crucial to education reform evolved and why they continued to be sharpened through the interplay with other goals.
The State of State U.S. History Standards 2011
Posted on 16 Feb | 0 comments
In the Fordham Foundtion's first review of the quality of state U.S. history standards since 2003, The State of State U.S. History Standards, reviewers evaluated state standards for U.S. history in grades K-12.
What they found is discouraging: Twenty-eight states deserve D or F grades for their academic standards in this key subject. The average grade across all states is a dismal D; the same grade Forhdam Foundation issued Washington state.
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Posted on 22 Dec | 0 comments
This report examines the dimensions of four distinct gaps in education: (1) between the United States and other nations, (2) between black and Latino students and white students, (3) between students of different income levels, and (4) between similar students schooled in different systems or regions.
The report finds that the underutilization of human potential as reflected in the achievement gap is extremely costly. Existing gaps impose the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession—one substantially larger than the deep recession the country is currently experiencing. For individuals, avoidable shortfalls in academic achievement impose heavy and often tragic consequences via lower earnings, poor health, and higher rates of incarceration.
America's Promise Report: "Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic"
Posted on 14 Dec | 0 comments
"Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic", released by America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at John Hopkins University, outlines that we can end the dropout epidemic, even in schools from lower-income, urban and rural districts that many previously thought were hopeless.
Important progress is being made on a range of reforms, policies, and practices at all levels that will help ensure more students graduate from high school, ready for college and productive work. Although this is producing real results, including an increase in the national graduation rate, the pace is too slow.
The report recognizes this and calls for a ‘Civic Marshall Plan’ to meet the goal set by President Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan earlier this year to increase the U.S. graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020. Furthermore, the report outlines the benchmarks to ensure the attainment of those goals, and focuses on bringing dedicated people to help school districts and states accelerate improvement.
McKinsey Releases Report: "How The World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better"
Posted on 14 Dec | 0 comments
And what must a system with good performance
do to become excellent?
In a new report published by McKinsey & Company, "How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better", these questions and many more are addressed.
The report analyzes 20 education systems from around the world and examines how each has achieved significant, sustained, and widespread gains in student outcomes, as measured by international and national assessments. Based on more than 200 interviews with stakeholders in school systems and an analysis of some 600 interventions they carried out, the report provides comprehensive research on global school system reforms -- reform elements that can be replicated in school systems elsewhere.
This report is a follow-up to the 2007 report, “How the World’s Best Performing School Systems Come Out on Top”, which examined the common attributes of high-performing school systems.
Seattle Wins TIF Grant, Washington Wins New Graduation Requirements
Posted on 30 Sep | 0 comments- State Board Adopts College and Career Ready Diploma
- Seattle Wins Federal Teacher Incentive Fund Grant
Is Washington State Still Waiting for Superman?
Posted on 22 Sep | 0 comments
The highly anticipated documentary
“Waiting for ‘Superman’” will be released in selected theaters across
the country on September 24, and will open in Seattle on Friday, October
1. Featured this week on Oprah and on the cover of Time Magazine, this
movie by director Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) takes a
close look at public education through the lives of five children and
their families across the country.
The documentary cites national statistics and other states’ statistics,
but it may leave Washington viewers wondering, “How does our state stack
up?” The University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public
Education has prepared a short guide
that presents important facts about the state of education in
Washington, as well as ideas for what parents and communities can do to
get involved.
The guide is available at www.crpe.org.
The State of State Standards and the Common Core in 2010
Posted on 21 Jul | 0 comments
In June 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative released K-12 academic standards in English language arts (ELA) and math -- an effort that grew out of a state-led work to align what students across the nation are learning.
As states begin to adopt these standards, questions on the clarity and rigor of the Common Core Standards have been raised. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's report, The State of State Standards and the Common Core in 2010, answers this question and provides a state-by-state analysis of their standards compared to the Common Core Standards.
The Impact of Effective Teachers and Principals
Posted on 08 Jul | 1 comment- The Impact of Effective Teachers and Principals
- State Board to Rule on New Graduation Requirements
- Federal Education Jobs Bill Under Fire
Help Wanted: Projecting Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018
Posted on 15 Jun | 0 comments
Help Wanted: Projecting Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018, a report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, provides a detailed connection between employment opportunity and specific education and training choices. The report also demonstrates a growing disconnect between the types of jobs employers need to fill and the number of Americans who have the education and training to fill those jobs. Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by the Numbers
Posted on 14 Jun | 0 comments
Every year, Education Week releases Diplomas Count, an in-depth examination of nationwide trends related to high school graduation. This year's report, Graduation by the Numbers - Putting Data to Work for Student Success, includes a detailed analysis of education reporting data to illuminate the graduation climate, particularly for low-income and minority students.
Washington's Plan for Reform
Posted on 08 Apr | 0 comments
Partnership for Learning has published a report detailing the components
of a bold and competitive Race to the Top application for Washington
state. To view the report, click here.
Sending a Message to Olympia: State Business, Education and Nonprofit Leaders Call for Reforms Necessary for Stimulus Funds
Posted on 22 Apr | 0 comments- State Business, Education and Nonprofit Leaders Call for Reforms Necessary for Stimulus Funds
- Basic Education Finance Bill Passes in the House and Senate
- What's Happenning in Washington Education
CORE 24: The Movie
By maureen on 03 Mar | 0 commentsCareer Forward is Good for Students
By laura on 10 Feb | 0 commentsWashington AP Exam Results Bittersweet
By laura on 06 Feb | 0 commentsCollege and Work Ready Skills are More Important than Ever
By larry on 02 Feb | 0 commentsBill Gates on Education: 2009 Annual Letter
By laura on 28 Jan | 0 commentsReport Card Time for Washington Education
By laura on 22 Jan | 0 commentsDoes Washington Have a "Chance for Success?"
By laura on 12 Jan | 0 commentsWhatcom schools gain nation recognition
By maureen on 18 Dec | 0 commentsMore Kids in AP: Results WA could have been proud of
By Caroline on 13 Nov | 0 commentsElection, CORE 24, Here's Hoping...
By Caroline on 05 Nov | 2 commentsSenior Project Anyone?
By maureen on 07 Oct | 0 commentsI heart Bellingham
By maureen on 30 Sep | 0 commentsAlmost Live-Blogging the State Board of Education Meeting, Part II
By maureen on 25 Sep | 0 commentsWish I’d thought of this one sooner…
By maureen on 23 Sep | 0 commentsAlgebra by 8th Grade: The Solution for All?
By maureen on 22 Sep | 0 commentsDiploma to Nowhere?
By maureen on 16 Sep | 0 commentsMonday News Roundup
By maureen on 15 Sep | 0 commentsNow that you’re back, let’s get down to business…
By maureen on 04 Sep | 0 commentsInterlake ELITES Turn Hispanic Education Around
Posted on 18 Aug | 0 commentsIt’s been a grey, grey week, but when I read this Seattle Times article about the incredible power of mobilized Hispanic students at Interlake High School, things seemed a little bit brighter.