Stretching the School Dollar Event ? airs November 20
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, our October 26 event?Cost-Cutting Strategies and Opportunities for Schools and Districts?will air on C-Span's Book TV on
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, our October 26 event?Cost-Cutting Strategies and Opportunities for Schools and Districts?will air on C-Span's Book TV on
We wanted to share some highlights from our November 10 event ? School Leadership Matters?which we co-hosted with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress.
Review: Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities
It's the title of Frederick M. Hess's forthcoming book, which will be released next week (Monday, methinks).
For eight years, Joel Klein has led the New York City public schools. In a new New York Times interview, he reflects on that period and on his decision to move forward to new challenges. Q: Was it a hard decision [to leave]?
It may be happening in the U.K. As James Noble-Rogers writes in The Independent:
The Los Angeles Board of Education, in a unanimous vote, has finalized a contract with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center, which will, the Los Angeles Times reports, ?analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test score
Lost in the dust stirred up by Joel Klein's resignation the other day was a historic announcement that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York was going to close thirty-two schools in the city.?That represents some 17 percent of its 185 schools and affe
Step 1: Collect data; Step 2: Do something with it
Introducing the Gifted Gap
How to get better leaders for America's schools
What reform realism would do
Looks like teacher salaries aren't the only controversial salaries these days.
Fordham Institute?co-hosted a great event earlier today, along with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress. It was entitled ?School Leadership Matters? and it highlighted the release of a new report from Rainwater ?
Today the?American Enterprise Institute will host an event?Moynihan in the White House?sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation. It begins very shortly (1:00?3:00 PM) From the AEI invite:
Review: Blurring the Lines: Charter, Public, Private, and Religious Schools Come Together
The public education world shook yesterday with the news that New York City's Chancellor Joel Klein was resigning.? Handpicked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had taken control of the largest school system in the country in 2002, Klein, an anti-trust lawyer with no education experience, oversaw one of the more dramatic urban education transformations in history.
If we start using electrical brain stimulation to improve math skills, do you think we will increase or decrease America's fear of math??
?There's accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten. They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.?
Here's a story about school districts in Texas offering online credit-recovery courses to any student who fails a class.
Though?New York City's academic achievement gains over the past eight years are still matters of dispute, on Joel Klein's watch the nation's largest city also turned out to be among?its most impressive when gauged by the kinds of structural and policy changes that comprise intelligent, promising?modern-day school reforms.?(New Orleans is the only real rival for that title, along with the Distri
A post on National Review's The Corner blog arouses a months-dormant education topic: vouchers in Washington, D.C.
The United States and India plan to increase their collaboration on higher education. Starting in 2011, for instance, the countries will hold annual summits on the topic.
Review: Education Finance and Policy: Special Issue: Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems
?What we're finding is that, to the extent charter schools do better than traditional schools, it is often attributable to ?creaming' or ?skimming,' excluding special education students, poor students on free-lunch programs, or limited English-speaking children.''
We've just announced that we'll hold an?event (here at Fordham) on Thursday, December 2, entitled ?Are Education Schools Amenable to Reform?? Should be an interesting and lively discussion, part of which will touch on our report, Cracks in the Ivory Tower?