Education

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation publishes content on education and related issues. Find and access current and archived items in our database. 

School Improvement Grants: What’s the Difference Between “Low-Performing Schools” and “Schools in Improvement?”

School Improvement Grants (SIGs) are authorized under NCLB, but received limited funding or attention until the last few years. Recently, though, funding has significantly increased, and the focus of these grants—concentrating significant resources on those schools furthest behind—realigned SIGs with the Race to the Top fund competition.

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2010 was a busy and productive year for ICW. We continued to grow our Business LEADs Network; convened a high-level panel of experts to discuss the midterm election results and their impact on education and workforce policy; published numerous reports on the importance of business supporting a range of issues, from early childhood education to extended learning time opportunities; and brought the documentary film Waiting for “Superman” to business audiences in a nationwide 12-city tour; among many other efforts.

Teacher Tenure: Low Bar for Granting –- High Bar for Taking Away

As the National Council on Teacher Quality writes, “Neither teachers’ unions nor state legislatures look upon tenure as an honor conferred upon a teacher who is found by some measure to be effective. In their view, tenure at the PK-12 level is a right that should be conferred to all employed teachers with a few years of satisfactory teaching experience.”

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