Finally, some straight talk on the achievement gap
Summers past have brought us front-page firestorms and inane back-to-school stories.
Summers past have brought us front-page firestorms and inane back-to-school stories.
There's a lot to be said about the $10 billion federal jobs bill (?Edujobs?) which will purportedly save 160,000 teachers' jobs nationally, 5,500 of which were/are/could be? at stake in the Buckeye State. You can choose what part of Edujobs makes you most concerned:
I was sorry not to make Education Next's top 40 education books of the decade.? (The polls are still open; vote for three.)? That could be because I haven't written it yet!? Details, details.
September's already here (how shocking!), so get ready for National Punctuation Day by submitting your own punctuation haiku here.
?Public school employment has risen 10 times faster than enrollment. There are only 9 percent more students today, but nearly twice as many public school employees.'' ? Andrew Coulson, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom
The University of Florida ?cuts faculty and budgets? but manages to spend, spend, spend on the important things. ?Liam Julian
The UK's least-productive primary schools will be converted into ?academies? (basically, charter schools), says the country's secretary of state for education, Michael Gove.
Standardized tests are biased against students who don't care. (If rough language offends you, don't click the link. And don't leave your house.) ?Liam Julian
The U.S. Department of Education just announced ?that a consortium of states led by Massachusetts will receive a $170 million federal grant to come up with a standardized testing system that would replace a patchwork of tests used by individual states.? ?Liam Julian
Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, writes in today's Wall Street Journal that she is optimistic about the future of K-12 education. ?Liam Julian
Yesterday, the Professional Staff Union of the Ohio Education Association went on strike.??