From the op-ed pages
The Wall Street Journal reviews Mark Bauerlein's new book, The Dumbest Generation, and Marion Barry defends vouchers for D.C.
The Wall Street Journal reviews Mark Bauerlein's new book, The Dumbest Generation, and Marion Barry defends vouchers for D.C.
"No Child Left Behind Lacks Bite." This is not exactly news to Flypaper readers, but it's great that the Wall Street Journal is spreading the word:
Flypaper does not relish the role of policing The Quick and the Ed, but that blog's latest item simply demands rebutting.
Parental choice advocates might think that Sol Stern's critique of school vouchers has harmed the cause, but surely
Malcolm Gladwell, kicking-off last week's New Yorker Conference, spoke about the mismatch problem--i.e., the hiring of people based on qualities or characteristics that have little or nothing to do with what delivers success in the position being filled.
Today at a big wing-ding on federal education research sponsored by Education Sector and several other groups , former Deputy Secretary of Education Marshall (Mike) Smith agreed that it was probably a mistake to have carved the Education Department (ED) out of the old Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Megan McArdle reflects thoughtfully on teachers unions today at Atlantic.com. I found this bit especially interesting:
I started my career teaching British, American, and world literature to high school kids.
Standards and accountability hawks (Fordham??swirls among them) have never adequately explained how top-down accountability systems avoid situations such as this. After an exhaustive investigation of Tucson's schools, the Arizona Daily Star reports:
Anyone who's been following politics lately knows that Senator Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant bomber and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers has become a matter of debate in the 2008 campaign.
You might not agree with this column's political bent, but Stanley Crouch is right to blast away at anti-intellectualism in American life:
We know that the best schools "sweat the small stuff"; they do not overlook untucked shirts, they do not permit poor posture, they do not deign to??hold different students??to different standards of discipline.
Rick Hess and Paul Peterson's annual look at state proficiency standards is out in the latest issu
The newest issue of Education Next is now on newsstands--or on the internet, at least. Check out Mike's piece, which is a unique look at how the editorial boards of major newspapers present charter schools and No Child Left Behind.
I was especially disappointed Saturday morning when my two-year-old daughter's "sports class" was canceled because I had just read in T
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Two articles about charter schools in this week's Economist are online here (Chicago) and here (New York).
Kevin Carey mercifully closes our debate, not by addressing ideas but by instead calling my specific impugning of unions "vague" and concluding that I suffer from an incurable anti-union ailment. (Alas, my doctor prescribed Zithromax, but it hasn't worked.)
John Merrow, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, explains that "public education lives in an upside-down universe where student out
From The Tallahassee Democrat: "According to the Florida Department of Education, more students statewide are writing at or above grade level." (The results are here.)
One wonders: To laugh or to cry? Break down test-score data by the ethnicity of Asian students?