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Direct linkMcNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
Even as the Obama administration tries to make good on promises of unprecedented transparency and accountability in economic-stimulus funding, the first reports from states and school districts show the difficulty of figuring out--in detail--how the money for education has been spent. In the broadest sense, the quarterly stimulus reports made…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Federal Legislation, Professional Development, Money Management
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
School after school in the Phoenix area has a banner hanging on the side of the building: iTeachAZ. It is shorthand for Arizona State University's new flagship undergraduate teacher education program, which integrates several high-profile--and hotly debated--reforms to teacher preparation today. Under the program, which debuted formally this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Majors, Undergraduate Study, Teacher Education Programs
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2007
This article talks about UTeach, a teacher-preparation program at the University of Texas at Austin that presents courses through the lens of math and science. The program has drawn widespread recognition in recent years, and it is now a model for revamping the training of math and science teachers on campuses nationwide. Backers of the program…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Career Choice, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2006
This article discusses how the philanthropy of Microsoft Corp software magnate co-chairs, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, are reshaping the American high school nowadays. Gates and his wife have put the issue on the national agenda like never before, with a commitment of more than 1.3 billion US dollars this decade toward the foundation's agenda…
Descriptors: High Schools, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Change Agents
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2005
It is not unusual to hear students at the Cesar Chavez Learning Center say that if they were not able to go to this kind of school, they would have given up on formal education a long time ago. Housed in a strip mall a mile and a half from the U.S.-Mexican border, the Chavez center allows students to attend school for a half day--morning or…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, Learning Centers (Classroom), Charter Schools, Organizational Theories
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2005
In this article, the author discusses a partnership between Baylor University and the Waco public schools that embeds every teacher-candidate--from the freshman year on--into the K-12 system. To test whether professional-development schools, modeled after teaching hospitals, can be scaled up so that all of a college's teaching candidates--not just…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Education, Urban Schools
