Chasing the Blues Away: Charter Schools Scale Up in Chicago
Robin Lake and Lydia Rainey, Progressive Policy InstituteMay 2005
Robin Lake and Lydia Rainey, Progressive Policy InstituteMay 2005
In the Journal of Teacher Education, Rick Hess writes that there is nothing unpredictable or even surprising about the debate over teacher training.
This week in the Los Angeles Times, Naomi Schaefer Riley describes the Broad Foundation's fellowship program that puts young, skilled executives from the private world into top positions in urban school districts.
The Association of Educational Publishers (www.edpress.org) asked me and several others to gaze into our crystal balls and identify five "trends/factors/events that will (or should) have significant impact on the substance and delivery of educational content over the next five years." This turned out to be an interesting exercise, the results of which I off
Mark Bauerlein, ed., Association of Literary Scholars and CriticsSpring 2005
National Center for Education StatisticsJune 2005The latest edition of NCES's vast, annual, congressionally-mandated Condition of Education (COE) has landed in our mailbox. Like everyone else, we're trying to separate the wheat from the chaff in this vast compendium. For starters, a few items of note:
Frederick M. Hess, Andrew P. Kelly, Harvard University Program in Education Policy and Governance May 2005Textbook Leadership? An Analysis of Leading Books Used in Principal PreparationFrederick M. Hess, Andrew P. Kelly, Harvard University Program in Education Policy and Governance May 2005
Lots of action but no resolution for Florida's Opportunity Scholarships. The state's Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday.
In the Wall Street Journal, Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman describes the history of the voucher movement, its philosophical foundations, and why choice in education is even more important today.
The Toronto Star reports that McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. is considering selling advertising in college textbooks, the better to target free-spending college students. The company claims the ads are intended to bring "beneficial corporate and social awareness campaigns to the students." Gadfly sees infinite potential in this innovation.