Education News Nuggets
She's gone! Now what? Maybe it's time for some good ol' home-schooling for DC students.
She's gone! Now what? Maybe it's time for some good ol' home-schooling for DC students.
Michelle Rhee's resignation is big news, and Checker and Mike shared their thoughts with major news outlets. Below are some of their quotes on the matter. Checker in Bloomberg News:
?Will Gray stand up to them [the teachers union]? He will need to have the people behind him. If people don't want to see reforms rolled back, people need to make sure the next mayor knows very clearly that they want these reforms to continue, that they expect them to continue.?
From the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog we learn that Washington's mayor-to-be, Vincent Gray, ?believes a student's family life is at least as important?
If you haven't yet perused Checker's opinion piece in this week's Education Gadfly, you're missing out on one solid, sober analysis. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Nelson Smith, senior adviser to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, condemns Diane Ravitch's latest anti-charter-school screed: I can no longer tell whether Ravitch's?distortions are willful or whether she's just too busy Tweeting to check facts.
Hooray! It's National School Lunch Week! But is?that worth celebrating? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Bellwether Education's Andrew Rotherham writes about charter schools in his Time magazine column; and Diane Ravitch writes about charter schools on the Education Week bl
Looks like Teach for America will be heading to South Carolina. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow