If this isn't a spending bubble, what is?
Rutgers education professor Bruce Baker thinks I'm getting all bubbly when I claim that there's been a spending bubble
Rutgers education professor Bruce Baker thinks I'm getting all bubbly when I claim that there's been a spending bubble
Don't worry about the exodus of veteran officials and staffers from the NYC Department of Education,
?The national spread of parent trigger will also demonstrate how the campaign for choice in education?once a predominately conservative and Republican interest?has gone bipartisan.? David Feith, Assistant Editorial Features Editor, Wall Street Journal
Not long after the 2008 election, Mike Petrilli and I penned an ?open letter? to the new powers that be in Washington, suggesting an approach to ESEA/NCLB reauthorization that we termed ?reform realism.?
In Britain, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, hopes to centralize education spending through a plan to fund individual schools directly, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There's nothing like living in the media capital of the world ? that be the city otherwise known as New York.? And thanks to Mike Bloomberg, education in Gotham is hot (sorry Joe Williams, but I'm not sure ?sexy? is the right word). Even if school improvement there is all smoke and mirrors, it's front-page and it's fun.
Diane Ravitch took some parting shots at Joel Klein last week with a short post on the New York Review of Books' blog headlined ?New York's New School Czar.??
A report released today by the Grattan Institute of Australia finds that ?governments waste millions of dollars in education on expensive and ineffectual programs to reduce class sizes.? It continues:
Review: Putting Data into Practice: Lessons from New York City