Our next event will quite appropriately take place on Groundhog Day and it's getting some buzz out there in the blogosphere this week. One of our panelists ?Justin Cohen from Mass Insight Education ? wrote up a post talking about the event, and Kevin Carey of Education Sector saw it and?responded. (And then?I believe Justin responded back!).
At our event, on February 2, we'll be talking about chronically low-performing schools (?bad? schools) and how a recent Fordham?study shows that they tend to stick around over time ? according to?our study, these schools rarely were?closed or turned around dramatically. Seems to us like a repetitive theme of sorts, not unlike the classic movie Groundhog Day. But Justin and Kevin discuss that very issue in their blog posts.
Join us for the event if you can. Should be a very good debate. We've got a great lineup. Joining Justin, we'll have Diane Ravitch (author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System), Jeanne Allen of the Center for Education Reform, and David Stuit, partner at Basis Policy Research and author of the?study that I referenced above (Are Bad Schools Immortal? The Scarcity of Turnarounds and Shutdowns in Both Charter and District Sectors). Our own Mike Petrilli will moderate!
?Amy Fagan