Don’t confuse jargon with rigor
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
At Inside Schools, a website for parents covering New York City schools, reporter
Editor's note: This post appears in response to Michael J. Petrilli and Frederick M. Hess's earlier article.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form in the Daily News and City Journal.
Proof that such programs do keep kids out of harm’s way. Dara Zeehandelaar, Ph.D.
Licensing tests to insure teachers know how to teach reading? What a concept! Robert Pondiscio
Education Week’s annual report confuses preschool quality with preschool quantity. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at RegBlog.
The debate over annual testing is important, but it’s no Brown v. Board of Education. Frederick M. Hess and Michael J. Petrilli
Monday afternoon, a Washington, D.C., metro rail train stopped in a tunnel not far from a major station, and the car began filling with smoke. Soon the lights went off and, though many passengers were struggling to breathe, they were told by metro employees to stay put.
Last week, I explained the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind) in a single table:
Free community college diverts resources away from more pressing problems. Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Overachieving Andy already beat me to the punch with ten thoughts about the secretary’s speech today.
As I wrote last week, with the ESEA reauthorization process heating up, lots of advocates are now trying to influence the congressional deliberations. Secretary Duncan weighed in this morning.
In AEI’s latest Vision Talks video, Arthur Brooks, its president and the happiest man in the think-tank world, argues that public-policy advocates need to make a better cas
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form on the Tools for the Common Core Standards blog.
The ed-policy world is abuzz: ESEA now probably stands a better chance of being reauthorized than at any time since NCLB’s signing, thirteen years ago yesterday.
Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week
Debate begins today on H.R. 30, a bill to tweak Obamacare so that large employers need not provide insurance for their staff unless they work forty hours per week, versus thirty hours under current law.
One in five Gotham students miss at least 10 percent of the school year. Megan Lail
Boys do better when girls aren’t around. Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
High-potential students still aren’t being reached. Robert Pondiscio