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12/13/2011

Early Childhood Partners - Technical Assistance Request for Proposal

The state is seeking a vendor for its campaign to encourage effective early childhood collaborations/partnerships. The Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify a lead entity to design and implement a statewide campaign to encourage effective early childhood collaborations/partnerships has been posted.
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11/07/2011

State Report Card Mock-Up

View our new state report mock-up here.
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10/21/2011

Study: Student Progress Can Be Tied to Teacher's School

SEATTLE (AP) - The academic progress of public school students can be traced, in part, to where their teachers went to college, according to new research by the University of Washington Center for Education Data & Research. But the center's director, Dan Goldhaber, cautioned that the study is just a first step toward determining what kind of training - not where the training occurred - best prepares teachers for excellence in the classroom. Even so, it's the kind of information U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan would like every school to have access to and that's why he recently announced a new program to use federal dollars to pay for similar research.
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10/21/2011

60% of State's Public Schools Fail to Meet U.S. Test Targets

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10/05/2011

Learn more about the initiative to lengthen the CPS school day & share your ideas with CPS!

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10/05/2011

Illinois Likely to Seek Relief from No Child Left Behind Law

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10/05/2011

CPS Announces Common Core Early Adopter Schools

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09/15/2011

Race to Top Winners Feel Heat on Teacher Evaluations

Winners of the federal Race to the Top competition are facing difficult questions about how to make good on their ambitious promises to link teacher evaluation with student performance, a task complicated in some cases by resistance from educators and practical questions about how to judge job performance fairly. For some states, that means wrestling with how to evaluate teachers in subjects for which no statewide test now exists. Others face a tough task of setting specific evaluation requirements based on relatively broad laws that established those systems, which in some cases were designed to boost the states’ chances in the competition.
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08/11/2011

Latino Policy Forum Issues 2010 Census Update

Nearly one-in-four Illinois children is Latino, according to new local-level data released from the US Census Bureau last week. In Chicago, that number jumps to 41 percent. As Illinois' class of 2020 -- today's third graders -- is poised to be one of the first with a "majority-minority" group of students, now is the time to take a hard look at our state's investment in our youngest learners.
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07/26/2011

Common-Core Writers Craft Curriculum Criteria

New guidelines on crafting curriculum materials for the common standards in English/language arts are reigniting debate about how to ensure a marketplace of good instructional materials for the new standards without crossing the line into telling teachers how to teach.
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