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THIS WEEK FRONT PAGE ■ Feds, States Dicker Over Evaluations ■ Principal Appraisals Get a Remake ■ Governors Take Varied Routes in Boosting Aid ■ Los Angeles School Board Race Shatters Spending Records NATIONAL 6 Study: Best and Worst Teachers Can Be Flagged Early 7 FOCUS ON: PRESCHOOL: Obama Preschool Proposal Stirs Debate Over Training 8 Principals Lack Training in Shaping School Climate 9 KIPP Outpacing Regular Public Schools, Study Finds 10 14 INDUSTRY & INNOVATION: Wisconsin Data-Contract Fight Goes Public With Ad Campaign Pew Survey Gauges Teachers’ Attitudes About Tech., Equity DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: EDUCATION WEEK MARCH 6, 2013 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 20 Back Home, Top Lawmaker Gets Earful on K-12 Policy 20 Voting Rights Act Case Has Stakes for Districts See Commentary, 21 Sequestration and Education: Frequently Asked Questions PAGE 25 22 House Panel Weighs School Safety Concerns 22 9 California Districts Seek Own NCLB Waiver COMMENTARY iS t 25 ANGELA MINNICI & ELLEN BEHRSTOCK-SHERRATT: Using Teacher Evaluation to Grow 25 MATTHEW LYNCH: Tracing Technology’s Unintended K-12 Consequences 26 ANITA KRISHNAMURTHI: Recognizing the Impact of After-School STEM 32 JD CHESLOFF: Why STEM Education Must Start ock ph ot o m .c o /K am r uz a z am nR at a n DEPARTMENTS 4 News in Brief 5 Report Roundup 15 Blogs of the Week 21 Policy Brief 27 Letters 36 TopSchoolJobs Recruitment Marketplace In Early Childhood edweek.org | EVENTS | FOUNDATION SUPPORT: Coverage of specific topics in Education Week is supported in part by grants from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the California Endowment, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the GE Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the NoVo Foundation, the Noyce Foundation, the Raikes Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and an anonymous funder. 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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Education Week - March 6, 2013

Education Week - March 6, 2013
Los Angeles School Board Race Shatters Spending Records
Feds, States Dicker Over Evaluations
Governors Take Varied Routes in Boosting Aid
Principal Appraisals Get a Remake
Contents
News in Brief
Report Roundup
Study: Best and Worst Teachers Can Be Flagged Early
FOCUS ON: PRESCHOOL: Obama Preschool Proposal Stirs Debate Over Training
Principals Lack Training in Shaping School Climate
KIPP Outpacing Regular Public Schools, Study Finds
INDUSTRY & INNOVATION: Wisconsin Data-Contract Fight Goes Public With Ad Campaign
DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Pew Survey Gauges Teachers’ Attitudes About Tech., Equity
Blogs of the Week
Voting Rights Act Case Has Stakes for Districts
Back Home, Top Lawmaker Gets Earful on K-12 Policy
Policy Brief
Sequestration and Education: Frequently Asked Questions
9 California Districts Seek Own NCLB Waiver
House Panel Weighs School Safety Concerns
MATTHEW LYNCH: Tracing Technology’s Unintended K-12 Consequences
ANGELA MINNICI & ELLEN BEHRSTOCK-SHERRATT: Using Teacher Evaluation to Grow
ANITA KRISHNAMURTHI: Recognizing the Impact of After-School STEM
Letters
TopSchoolJobs Recruitment Marketplace
JD CHESLOFF: Why STEM Education Must Start In Early Childhood

Education Week - March 6, 2013