From Checker's Desk
- "Common Core" education standards: Impressive, balanced, serious (Checker's take on the new draft standards, released this week)
Guest Editorial
- Arne Duncan's troubling civil rights crusade, Joshua Dunn (Dunn says: recent case law and common sense condemn this federal push to the dustbin of ideas)
Recommended Reading
- Four is the new five (Four-day weeks are the path of least resistance for districts cutting costs)
- A charter grows in Harlem (Everyone in Harlem seems gung-ho about charters...except the area's representatives in Albany)
- Learning the art of teaching (More insight into the art of teaching, this time from the charter sector)
- Rhee redux (Are Rhee and Weingarten prolonging their battle because they hate each other?)
- The saga of scarcity (WaPo writer and mom talks gaming the "out of neighborhood" school lottery)
The Education Gadfly Show Podcast
- Don't point! (Rick and Mike knock it out of the park, yet again)
Short Reviews
- Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Curriculum Standards (Could school choice produce the same outcomes as national standards?)
- Stuck Schools: A Framework for Identifying Schools Where Students Need Change--Now! (Has NCLB helped us isolate a "turnaround" strategy?)
- It's the Classroom, Stupid: A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren (Kalman Hettleman gives us his latest round of thoughtful "contrarian" views)
- Fighting for Opportunity: School Choice Yearbook 2009-2010 (2009 for school choice: tough but victorious)
Announcements
- Fordham wants YOU! (We're still on the hunt for a new Development Director. Apply today!)
