http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Dayton Daily News education reporter Scott Elliott writes about schools, kids, teaching and learning. Quick news updates by e-mail Start your workday informed by signing up for our e-mail local news headlines and breaking news alerts. Sign up en-us selliott@coxohio.com 2009-05-14T15:05:02-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/05/14/politics_and_sc.html For as long as I’ve been writing about education (and, of course, long before that) people have complained about politics becoming enmeshed in schools. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody complain that if they... 12809103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Schools and Politics 2009-05-14T15:05:02-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/05/13/speaking_of_vou.html Earlier this week, I was writing about the debate over vouchers in Washington, D.C. Let’s not forget that we also have a huge and nationally important voucher program right here in Ohio — and Dayton, naturally, is a key player... 12789803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Charter Schools and School Choice 2009-05-13T17:41:22-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/05/11/will_obama_walk.html it looked last week like President Obama wriggled loose from a potentially sticky controversy when he announced support for the District of Columbia’s voucher program. The program had been conspicuously left out of earlier budget plans, with deafening silence from... 12737403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Charter Schools and School Choice 2009-05-11T16:37:15-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/05/10/can_potential_s.html That’s the question we’ve asked over at the Matter of Opinion blog. Have ideas for public policy initiatives or new laws that could help keep potential sex offenders from crossing the line? Please head over there and share your thoughts.... 12717403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Student Health and Safety 2009-05-10T23:38:34-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/05/08/a_blueprint_for.html U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was in Ohio today for a “rally for education” with Gov. Ted Strickland, who is in a tough fight to get his budget, and the attached 10-year education reform plan, through the Republican-controlled state... 12686903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ School Funding 2009-05-08T14:29:07-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/03/01/humor_and_kids.html There’s a ton of evidence that kids learn language best in conversation with adults. The more they speak with adults on a grown up level, the better there brain understands how sophisticated language works. In my column this weekend, I... 11230003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-03-01T22:53:37-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/26/obama_throwing.html The New York Times has a good summary of President Obama’s education budget proposals, which includes big jumps in student loan support and an indexing of Pell Grants to inflation, which will ensure grant amounts grow as inflation goes up.... 11162803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Schools and Politics 2009-02-26T16:37:33-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/24/tide_turning_ag.html Just a few days after none other than Bristol Palin, teenage mom and daughter of family values Republican Sarah Palin, said in an interview that expecting all teens to abstain from sex was “not realistic,” it appears Democrats in congress... 11105703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Sex Education 2009-02-24T20:32:26-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/23/ohio_groups_tag.html A group called the Education and the Public Interest Center in Colorado has put out a list called the Bunkum Awards, dubious “recognition” for “nonsensical, confusing, and disingenuous reports produced by education think tanks.” Of the four “winners” cited for... 11066303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-02-23T15:09:46-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/18/well_i_guess_th.html So Dayton’s school board has decided to junk it’s hybrid school calendar that started school early in favor of longer fall and spring breaks and return to a traditional calendar? Interesting, especially since it was little more than a year... 10965903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Dayton Public Schools 2009-02-18T23:35:41-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/14/middle_school_w.html If you ever really dreamed of doing something, chances are that dream was born somewhere around the middle school grades. It’s in those grades, stretching maybe into the range of fourth to ninth grade, when important things begin to happen.... 10863703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-02-14T19:37:40-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/12/diary_of_a_wimp.html Here’s a little trick I’ve learned over the decade I’ve written about education for a living. When you get the chance to interview someone involved in producing stuff that kids know more about than you do (books, T.V. shows,... 10821003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-02-12T18:14:19-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/11/another_kind_of.html I spent a couple of hours this morning at Chaminade-Julienne High School at a social justice and human rights symposium run by students that featured Binka LeBreton as a keynote speaker along with a group of students who described research... 10783303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-02-11T15:13:46-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/09/student_achivem.html There is an interesting opinion piece in today’s New York Times that argues that psychological suggestion can have a big impact on student achievement. For instance, just telling kids they are smart before they take a test can raise their... 10721103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Teaching and Learning 2009-02-09T16:05:28-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/entries/2009/02/08/keeping_a_hand.html Readers of this blog know that in September I transitioned from covering education for the Dayton Daily News to writing editorials and columns as a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. And if you’ve followed this blog and the Matter... 10693103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/ Journalism 2009-02-08T15:54:13-04:00 selliott@coxohio.com