Here’s a quick look around at what had Fordham’s blogs buzzing over the past week:
- Aaron Churchill noted on the Ohio Gadfly Daily that “Ohio charters are gaining an international reputation—but for all the wrong reasons.”
- Responding to Diane Ravitch, Kathleen Porter-Magee argued on Common Core Watch that “suggesting that we ‘field test’ Common Core betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about what standards are and what they are not.”
- On Board’s Eye View, Peter Meyer analyzed the governance vision of AEI’s Rick Hess and Olivia Meeks. “The digital revolution, which is just now beginning, is clearly part of the new education world that Hess and Meeks see on the near horizon, a world organized around function not geography,” Meyer wrote.
- “[David] Brooks’s point is that our cultural ideal of the American school may be causing boys, in particular, to disengage from school altogether,” wrote Adam Emerson on Choice Words in a post about the value of single-sex education. “Maybe all it takes to re-engage them is a school of their own.”
- “Are we reformers kidding ourselves when we think that better schools will catapult low-income children into the ranks of this New Elite?” Asked Mike Petrilli on Flypaper.
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