Education News Nuggets
Teacher training is all about the technology lately?coaching via earpieces and
Teacher training is all about the technology lately?coaching via earpieces and
?We are trying to shift the balance of power in the education landscape away from the powerful groups who want to keep the status quo. We are going to be the group that is advocating on behalf of kids.? Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
This piece originally appeared in today's Wall Street Journal (login required).
By happenstance, the same day that Michelle Rhee announced formation of her new education-reform advocacy group, Students First, a committee of our own board okayed a staff (and attorney)?recommendation that we engage in what the IRS calls a ?501 (h)?
Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute tells the Christian Science Monitor that former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ?very explicitly is setting out to be a political answer to the unions.?
Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economics professor, presents today on the New York Times Economix blog some ways in which Republicans in Washington might improve education. Alas, his ideas are not new.
Checker is among those educators ?stunned,? as he told the New York Times, by China's performance in what the Times noted was the nation's ?debut in international standardized testing.? And stunned he, and we all, should be.
Despite the fact that the Race to the Top program disappeared from the news several months ago (winnings for the last round were announced in late August), there have been lingering questions and issues with the program.
Review: Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added