Recently added articles from Leadership:
Innovative paths to improved learning.(To our readers)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Dear Colleague: If you have been following the debate over whether 21st century skills--such as critical thinking and analytical and technology skills--are just a fad, you may have already formed your own opinion. Or, like George Manthey, you might believe that both knowledge ...
When dropouts return to high school: not all students who drop out vanish from school enrollment rosters for good. This study sheds new light on the challenges students and districts face when dropouts re-enroll.
Nov 01, 2009; ... Public demands to increase high school graduation rates have put the nation's dropout crisis in the spotlight. More than one million students do not complete high school with their classmates each year. In California, fewer than 75 percent of grade 9 students graduate within four years of ...
The knowledge vs. skills debate: a false dichotomy? The teaching of 21st century skills has become a surprising controversy as some educators express concern that core content may be compromised.
Nov 01, 2009; ... I'm not sure why I should be surprised, but I am when I learn that teaching critical thinking, analytical and technology skills--as well as teaching students to be creative and collaborative--has become controversial. There seems to be a bit of a backlash against such skills, often called ...
Come back kids: this program seeks out dropouts who had no plans to re-enroll and offers them a flexible, personalized educational environment that leads to a diploma and a plan for the future.
Nov 01, 2009; ... When asked why she dropped out of high school her senior year, Areli Soto rolls her eyes and shakes her head. "Just dumb. I think I was just lazy." Within a short time, Areli had tried to reenroll in school, asking to transfer to her district's continuation high school. "My ...
Learning and teaching innovating: California can recapture its global reputation if we show the world that innovations in education will recharge the economy, restore hope and re-ignite student creativity.
Nov 01, 2009; ... We have reached a critical moment in California. Our state faces some of the most complex business, political, scientific, technological, health and environmental challenges in its history. At the very same time it is undergoing an unprecedented financial and governing crisis. ...