i3 is ?New American Schools? all over again
Alexander Russo nailed it this morning* when he wrote that ?old school reforms win big in i3.? Indeed.
Alexander Russo nailed it this morning* when he wrote that ?old school reforms win big in i3.? Indeed.
Money talks ? but does it educate?? This is American education's sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. Or is it $64 million? Billion?? Or, how about $26 billion?? That's the number moving through the Capitol at the moment. ?(See here.)
Cool article today in the Wall Street Journal, ?Opting to Go Abroad,? describing how U.S. M.B.A students are choosing foreign universities at a much higher rate than in previous years. This got me thinking: as the best and brightest U.S.
In Philly teen drivers need to watch out for red light cameras and laptop webcams?
You know it's an election year when the Democratic Speaker of the House recalls her comrades from summer break to Washington for an emergency vote to bail out the nation's schools. This action might be wrapped in the garb of ?economic stimulus?
?California's K-12 system is a collective farm of ignorance and mediocrity, in which money must trickle down through four layers of bureaucratic sediment before it reaches the classroom. Another $700 million won't change anything, money is not the key to reform, and federal leadership is not important.?
The jobs bill making its way through Congress provides $10 billion for the nation's school districts, a temporary panacea to the grim fact that schools must learn to do more with less in the long run, says Mike. What do you think?