No Child Left Behind Act: Improvements Needed in Education's Process for Tracking States' Implementation of Key Provisions
United States Government Accountability OfficeSeptember 2004
United States Government Accountability OfficeSeptember 2004
Dennis Evans, Editor, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.2005
There's new Europe and old Europe, and now there's the new education philanthropy and the old education philanthropy, according to Rick Hess in Philanthropy magazine. The old version focused on working within the system and making nice with school districts and assorted education interest groups - and much of it expired with Walter Annenberg's failed challenge.
Presidential election campaigns bring out the worst in academics whose partisan yearnings overcome their scholarly scruples.
How do you teach kids to write: through the spirit or the law? That is, should writing be taught through careful attention to grammar, syntax, and composition? Or should the first task be encouraging youngsters to pour their hearts upon the page without regard for subjects, verbs, and objects?
This weekend, French thinker Jacques Derrida, father of the literary method known as "deconstruction," died of pancreatic cancer. His wide-ranging influence on intellectual life on this planet even trickled down into K-12 education, where it has inspired some of our wackier and less responsible pedagogical theorists.
As part of the New York Times' all out assault on education reform this election year, the editorial board (which has yet to retract or correct its misleading editorial on the AFT charter report--click here and here for mo