Smoke and mirrors?
Mayor Bloomberg will announce today that test scores are way up in New York City. But no one, it seems, thinks the gains are legitimate.
Mayor Bloomberg will announce today that test scores are way up in New York City. But no one, it seems, thinks the gains are legitimate.
About the short review that Coby kindly mentions: I wrote it for a lay audience, one not tuned in to every shift in k-12 minutiae, and so I didn't dive into the issues as much as perhaps I could have.
A??reader (a teacher, it seems) writes??to the St. Petersburg Times: Did Jeb Bush really say "our education system is an eight-track system living in an iPod world"?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is going to today??blame Margaret Thatcher for Britain's education woes, the Telegraph reports.
Our friend Greg Forster wrote a post last week about Checker's and my National Review Online essay in which we report on
The story of the 18 pregnant girls who made a pact to become pregnant at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has been all over the news in the last several days. Everyone hearing the story has been understandably dismayed.
A group of charter school organizations including the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, issued a report t
I hope the College Board catches the flack??it deserves for its decision??to (starting in 2010)??show colleges only the SAT scores that the??students who earn them choose to reveal--i.e., if Johnny takes the test 10 times, Johnny gets to show State U.
Mike and Checker, who were at the Excellence in Education summit in Orlando yesterday, may have more to say about this.
On Wednesday's NewsHour, John Merrow resumed his series on Michelle Rhee's efforts to revamp the D.C. Public Schools. This installment centers around Hart Middle School, a chronically-failing institution that landed on Rhee's radar as a candidate for dramatic restructuring.
In a long and mostly thoughtful letter to the editor of the
Chad Adelman, Education Sector's new policy associate, digs into our
Speaking at lunch today, Secretary Spellings stated that it would be fine with her if NCLB were renamed the "Motherhood And Apple Pie" program. MAAP. Not bad.
Checker and Mike write on National Review Online today about Fordham's latest report, High-Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind.
Florida school districts have been recently complaining about state budget cuts in education. Financial management of this sort doesn't really bolster their case, though.
Speaking of Florida, former Governor Jeb Bush is convening at Disney World today his Excellence in Action education summit.
If I were an anonymous blogger and had to pick a clever moniker with which to sign my pithiest posts, I might actually opt for something similar to that decided upon by this person, who goes by "Dr. Homeslice." I'm edgy and educated, it bespeaks.
I got distracted yesterday by the release of our high-achieving students study, but Tuesday's news out of California is still worth celebrating. A federal judge ruled that the U.S.
That's how Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings just described* the decision by the House Appropriations Committee to defund the Reading First program. And she's right. * Here at the Excellence in Education summit in Orlando.
E.J. Dionne's column in yesterday's Washington Post reminded me that I had failed to comment on Barack Obama's Father's Day sermon. As Dionne wrote,
Over a year ago, when Secretary Spellings invited all states to apply for a new pilot program to use growth models in their accountability systems, she included ??several requirements, one of which was "A growth model proposal must...
The Asian/ Pacific/ American Institute and Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at New York University, CARE and College BoardJune 9, 2008
California Charter Schools AssociationJune 2008
Patrick Wolf, Babette Gutmann, Michael Puma, Brian Kisida, Lou Rizzo, Nada EissaU.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education SciencesJune 2008