(This guest blog was written by Scott Joftus, co-founder and president of Cross & Joftus, an education consulting firm based in Bethesda, MD. He can be reached at scott@edstrategies.net.) “People who drive faster than me are jerks. People who drive…
Tag Archives: School Improvement Grant
A Sellers’ Market for SIG
December 20, 2011 – 1:50 pm
(This post was written by guest blogger Trish Boland, Title I Director for the Colorado Department of Education.) So, when did “what the market will bear” become an accepted practice in public education? Use of the adage grew more frequent…
Waiting for (Go)Dough
December 13, 2011 – 4:25 pm
In the absence of a reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, much of the Obama administration’s agenda for K-12 education has rested on two grant programs first funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “stimulus bill”): the…
Is Title I About Poverty Anymore?
September 29, 2011 – 11:40 am
Equity for poor children was the initial impulse behind the enactment of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. But that concept has faded as memories of the 1960s civil rights campaigns recede and the “unit…
Restructuring, Reform and Reality
September 20, 2011 – 2:08 pm
In a recent eduwonk post regarding NCLB’s complex and controversial school restructuring options, Andrew Rotherham wrote, “When it comes to tackling these problems, we have a serious failure of creativity, imagination, and, of course, political will. That’s not this law’s…
Straight Talk on SIG
September 14, 2011 – 4:54 pm
By this point, most schools that received grants under the turbo-charged School Improvement Grant program have been through at least one year of implementation. A year ago, the SIG talk was full of almost breathless excitement. That hasn’t faded entirely….
SIGnificant Concerns
July 29, 2011 – 5:16 pm
If the U.S. Department of Education fancies itself a school reform organization, then the School Improvement Grant is one of its most important programs — if not the most important. The purpose of SIG is to transform “persistently lowest achieving…