Education News Nuggets
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
?Everybody who acts like we can tinker with the state monopoly on education and get radically better results is working to ensure that our present system survives to inflict its dysfunctional results on another generation of Americans who cannot afford its failures.''
. . . when Crash is on the teacher-training syllabus. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Kevin Carey, Education Sector's policy director, regularly advertises that he has very little if any respect for Charles Murray, the political scientist who famously coauthored The Bell Curve in 1994.
Education professors are in step with some current reform initiatives targeted at improving teacher quality, but not others, according to our new survey of teacher educators.?
Though the headline had it that New York State gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo ?Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions,? what he actually tells the New York Times is much kinder, gentler.?
Sure, it's selective, but this run-on-a-shoestring school for poor kids still gets the job done. ?Give me one good reason?okay, I'll take two or three?why this isn't it replicable and scalable?