The Gadfly’s roundup is back! Here’s a quick review of what had Fordham’s bloggers buzzing over the past week:
- Terry Ryan explained on the Ohio Gadfly Daily that, while district-charter school relations in Ohio have often been reminiscent of the Hatfield and McCoy feud, “it appears that the animosity and acrimony of the recent past is fading.”
Board’s Eye View concluded its TBQ series by reviewing all the guest posts from education experts. "Each of these essays provides important and nuanced information to the question of how we can best govern our public education system,” wrote Editor Peter Meyer. "Together, they are not a bad blueprint for systemic reform."- Mike Petrilli was befuddled, dumbstruck, and bemused by the Department of Education’s rejection of Iowa’s NCLB waiver application. As he wondered on Flypaper, “Did [Arne] Duncan and the White House politicos not understand that he’s handing Mitt Romney a handy campaign issue in up-for-grabs Iowa?”
- "In far too many traditional school districts, the push for greater accountability has been paired with less autonomy and more centralized control,” warned Kathleen Porter-Magee on Common Core Watch. “That is a prescription for a big testing and accountability backlash.”
- Adam Emerson called for a compromise over voucher accountability on Choice Words, arguing that “the call to regulate private schools as if they were public is an extreme reaction coming largely from those who oppose vouchers in any form. But it’s equally unreasonable today to assume that parental choice and the marketplace are sufficient sources of accountability and quality control in K-12 education.”
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