ERS Updates Archives

2012

January

• ERS is Hiring

2011

December

• Happy Holidays from ERS!

• What is Next Generation Learning?

• State Legislators Consider Current Budget Crisis and K-12 Education

• Improve Data & Understanding Differences

• State Roles in Transforming the Teaching Job

• The Resourceful School

November

• Read “A Better Turnaround Strategy”

• Introducing School Budget Hold’em—More than a Game

• The Big Shift to Funding Student Needs

• ERS Joins Opportunity Nation Campaign Today

• Spotting Blobs of Chewing Gum

October

• Happy Halloween from the ERS Family!

• 1000 schools vs. 1000 school districts

• Comment on “A Perfect Confluence”

• School Turnaround - is “Transformation” enough?

• Preschool Wars Go Mainstream

• ERS School Turnaround Summit Begins Tomorrow

• Georgia on my mind…

• Cutting Rules Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Cutting Services

September

• New ERS Report on Duval County Public Schools

• The Danger of Overdoing Central Office Cuts

August

• What happens to the kids left behind?

• Take Care in Responding to Atlanta Cheating

• Changing Perspective on Class Size

• Book Review: Cutting through the Hype

• Book Review: Switch

• Appropriately Compensating Teachers

July

• Book Review: Why Don’t Students Like School

• Budget Brainstorms

• Book Review: Math Curse

• Chief State School Officers Consider Trade-offs in Tough Times

• Book Review: Teacher

• Book Review: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

• Book Review: Drive

June

• At What Cost?

• Book Review: The Social Animal

• Summertime and the livin’ is easy…

• Learning from Charters - Fordham digs in on pensions

• A State Primer for Transformation

May

• Heartbreak or Transformation?

• A Perfect Confluence

• The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

• ERS Releases Report on Syracuse City School District

April

• Clear Communication on Contracts

• ERS and EWA

• Public Conversations on Teaching Effectiveness and Online Learning

March

• District Lessons from Baltimore City Schools

• Education Productivity and Dealing with Deficits

• Beyond Technology at TechBoston

• Transforming Teaching

February

• More on What’s Working

• Successful Collaboration Starts with a Common Understanding of Your Resource Realities

• Turnaround Talk

• The Great Breakthrough in Education Productivity: What Will It Be?

January

• New Year’s Resolutions: Chocolate or Broccoli?

• The Future of Teaching:  Ed Week Commentary Collection

• Sustainable School Improvement: What States Can Do to Help

• More Conversations about Tough Times

• Start with Data on Resource Use

• Happy New Year! ERS Video Greeting

2010

December

• Student-Based Budgeting:  A potentially powerful tool in tough times

• Tough Times Mean Tough Trade-Offs: Protecting priorities in Boston

• Tough Trade-Offs:  Find dollars in your benefits package

• ARRA: The Good News and the Bad News

November

• It Takes a City to Change a System

• Doing More with Less Now

• Disappointment in Florida

October

• Data as a Flashlight

• School Design Guide Now Available

• Newsweek highlights Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Turnaround Strategy

• The Politics of Special Education Placement

September

• New ERS Series: Practical Tools for District Transformation

• New publication on Weighted Student Funding

• Join the ERS Team

• Smart Commentary from “Smart Money” Author

• ERS Staff’s Thoughts on “Waiting for ‘Superman’”

August

• Think About the System First

• Resource Data and Drop-Out Prevention: Some Beginning Insights

July

• ERS Staff Attends Preview of Waiting For “Superman”

• Congratulations to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools!

• Our Partner Syracuse and Say Yes to Education Commended

• Small School Success

• New Teacher Project Statement on “Edujobs” Amendment

• “Our Education Dollars” in The New York Times

• Rhode Island Moves to Weighted Student Funding

June

• Time is Ticking for Filling Teacher Vacancies

• ResourceCheck Is Now Web-based!

• Teaching Effectiveness and Coaching

May

• A Slam Dunk Opportunity for School District Hiring

• Turning Around Turnaround in Restructuring ‘Restructuring’

• Racing to the Top

April

• Turnaround Talk at Aspen Institute Policy Forum

• Talking about ‘Fair Student Funding’

March

• Race to the Top winners speak on NPR OnPoint

• Investing in Innovation (i3) Applications

January

• New Resources for Districts

• Politics K-12 Blog highlights changes to Title1 Aid

• More Dollars for R2T?

• ESEA Reauthorization: On Deck