Remembering Tim Russert
So much has been written, said and televised regarding the late Timothy J. Russert that I can constructively add only this small bit to everyone's memories and biographies of this great guy.
So much has been written, said and televised regarding the late Timothy J. Russert that I can constructively add only this small bit to everyone's memories and biographies of this great guy.
Mike thinks I'm overzealous in questioning the zeal with which ed reformers tie America's sub-par schools to forecasts of economic doom.
Last week the Wall Street Journal editors defended D.C.'s voucher program after the Washington Post reported that its days could be numbered.
Education poobahs from everywhere will??go this week to??Orlando for a k-12 summit hosted by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and friends.
Fordham has previously come out in favor of religious charter schools.
While Washington, D.C., works it way through a big debate about turning its inner-city Catholic schools into charters, a Catholic high school in Houston q
Nigeria's teachers' union threatens to unleash the "mother of all strikes." (Gadfly has previously commented, in op-art form,??on Nigeria's trials.)
I've returned from a long weekend in New Hampshire to find my colleague Coby continuously questioning the concern that America's economic might will be damaged by her educational mediocrity.
That's what the headlines should say about this recently released study on Washington's federally-funded school scholarship program, though they probably won't.
The Florida Teachers Union and friends sued the state on Friday to remove pro-voucher proposals from the November ballot, including a provision designed to restore, you guessed it, the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which was ruled unc
Speaking of the economics-related back and forth between my colleagues here, a new rep