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'How many students are told at the beginning of each school year, 'Leave your cell phone in your locker; turn off the phone'?' asks June St. Clair Atkinson in a […]

The adoption of the Controlled Choice plan indicating goals of school desegregation, school improvement and student choice of school for enrolment has helped in creating multiracial attractive city schools in Boston. The schools are fully desegregated, and neither Whites nor any other racial groups are the majority. The schools are a result of strong leadership and a positive school culture. They have a higher reading scores and lower dropout rates than that in other schools.

A discussion on how inspection reports from the UK Office of Standards in Education can have an effect on teachers' morale is presented. The case of the Edward Redhead school where 9 teachers and the headteacher chose to resign after receiving what they felt was an unfair inspection report.

From USA Today: Children with disabilities are being secluded from classmates and restrained against their will in schools to control their behavior, a report from the Government Accountability Office has […]

Iowa state education officials have turned down the Bondurant-Farrar district's request for a four-day school week. The district, which has 1,300 students, requested a waiver from the traditional school week […]

A survey report that reveals an increasing number of secondary schoolheads earning more than pounds sterling 100,000 with lesser workloads is presented.

Netherhall school and sixth-form college on the southern fringes of Cambridge that serves an apparently affluent area is praised twice in the chief inspector's annual report. Although Netherhall seems to be in a comfortable position, headteacher David Smart states that there is no right way to prepare, go through and recover from an inspection. A debate regarding the severity of the inspection conducted by Ofsted at various schools is presented that provides common threads, ideas and solutions.

Byline: ARTHUR LEVINE I can't even begin to count how many people in the past two weeks have asked me if I am optimistic about the prospects for overhauling the [...]

The UK's chief inspector of schools, David Bell proposed in 2004 that schools would only receive a couple of days' warning for an inspection and hence give governors little time to think on presentation details. Authorities assume that the inspector's first job would be to judge the accuracy of the school's self-evaluation that would include parents' views at the highest priority.

A new report, 'New Networks, Old Problems: Technology in Urban Schools,' describes the struggles of four of the nation's larger urban school systems--Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland--in using the newest [...]

The latest Rand Corp. report, 'Teacher-Reported Effects of New American School Designs,' analyzes survey data from teachers and principals. It examines the relationship of teachers' views of resource adequacy and [...]

The Carnegie Corporation has released its first Challenge 2001 paper, 'Creating A New Vision of the Urban High School.' The paper focuses on how high schools must be transformed into [...]

'Turning Points 2000: Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century,' a Carnegie Corporation of New York report on implementing middle school reform, is available from Teachers College Press. The report, produced [...]

How widespread is site-based decision making in schools? A new Issue Brief from the U.S. Department of Education says site-based decisions are in evidence in every state, though the degree [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has completed a national study regarding policies and practices schools use to structure their curricula. The study examined the curricular differentiation at a representative sample [...]

A report proposing sweeping changes in the way the country educates its children is being embraced by officials in New Hampshire and other states. The report, 'Tough Choices or Tough [...]

The majority of schools have been praised by Christine Gilbert, chief inspector of Ofsted, in her first annual report, but she is concerned that as the good schools move ahead, the bad schools are falling further behind. Over 90 percent of state schools inspected in 2006 were satisfactort and almost 60 percent were good or outstanding.

UK primary schools improved standards of teaching dramatically from 1994-5 to 1999/2000 according to a report from the new chief inspector of schools Mike Tomlinson.

British school governors' annual reports to parents were reviewed by The Times Educational Supplement and McDonald's to reward governors who were clearly involved in their schools and who presented the schools goals and advances to parents. Some reports were well written but only revealed how little the governors really did while others were stylistically weak but contained valuable information and revealed that the governors were truly active participants in the schools even where hard decisions, such as for redundancies, were concerned.

In a new report by the Educational Research Service, 'Crucial Conversations About America's Schools,' co-authors John C. Draper and Nancy Protheroe discuss how to shift from conversations based on misperception [...]

Now that the college application period for hundreds of thousands of high school seniors is over, the stressful part looms over their heads like a dark cloud as they await [...]