Author Archives: Dr. Aronson
The Unsettled State of Education
If you are in education, these are turbulent times. Teachers fear pay cuts as a result of a testing regime that includes students’ performance on standardized test scores. Parents are concerned that afterschool programming will no longer be available after the end of Supplemental Educational Services, or they worry about having their child returned to [...]
Supplemental Educational Services Works
Congress is debating which parts of No Child Left Behind works and which don’t. The law needs revisions, but we have evidence that one critically important component that does not get a lot of attention, Supplemental Education Services (SES), works. Supplemental Educational Services (SES) is a funding source for free tutoring for low-income students attending failing schools. For more [...]
Effective ESEA Reauthorization
On Sunday January 8, 2012, Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post calling for reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. See the article at (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/01/after-10-years-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-a-new-nclb/). No Child Left Behind was supposed to be reauthorized in 2008, but Congress is still dragging its feet with regards to the legislation’s reauthorization. Some legislators [...]
Effective ESEA Reauthorization
On Sunday January 8, 2012, Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post calling for reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. See the article at (http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/01/after-10-years-it%e2%80%99s-time-for-a-new-nclb/). No Child Left Behind was supposed to be reauthorized in 2008, but Congress is still dragging its feet with regards to the legislation’s reauthorization. Some legislators [...]
Resolve to Improve Your Educational Community
As the end of December approaches, tens of millions of people develop New Year’s resolutions. We make resolutions about our physical form (i.e. diet or exercise), our personality (i.e. become more assertive or patient), our job (i.e. ask the boss for a promotion), or our intellectual breadth (i.e. read more books or take a class). [...]