Education Week announced that it is ending its annual spotlight coverage of graduation rates. When the first Diplomas Count was published back in 2006, there was no uniformity in the ways states reported graduation rate rates to the federal government. Education Week developed its own uniform measure – the Cumulative Promotion Index. This allowed them to calculate[…]Continue Reading
The Department of Health and Human Services has released the new Head Start Performance Standards. Department officials say that the new standards represent the biggest changes made since they established the standards in 1975. Even without new regulations, Head Start has changed a lot since its 1965 inception. The program has placed more and more emphasis on[…]Continue Reading
Senior editor Wayne D’Orio talks to renowned Coachella Valley superintendent Darryl Adams about his resignation, tense teacher contract talks, and the district’s highly acclaimed 1:1 initiative. If you want a lesson in how hard it is to be a superintendent in 2016, consider Darryl Adams. Adams, until earlier this month, the superintendent of California’s Coachella Valley USD, lived a double[…]Continue Reading