Stupid
This article, written by an insane Chinese woman who is merely ginning up publicity for her just-published book, has sparked much debate. I have no idea why.
This article, written by an insane Chinese woman who is merely ginning up publicity for her just-published book, has sparked much debate. I have no idea why.
The one question on everyone's mind: Will 2011 be the year that Congress revises No Child Left Behind? Arne Duncan says yes. ?The president is ready to move on this,? he told the Washington Post.
Did you notice Flypaper's ?quotable? bit from yesterday? It comes from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: ?Teaching can no longer be the only profession where you have no rewards for excellence and no consequences for failure to perform.? I get it. Christie is a politician, and making broad, charged statements is what politicians do (when they aren't making narrow, vapid ones).
?The best way to assess what students encounter is regular surveys of teachers and students. But like all true school improvements, that requires school leaders strong enough to listen and react intelligently to bad news. Such people are in short supply.''
Twenty-six Catholic schools?all but one of which are elementary-level?in New York City are slated for closure. That may not seem like a big number, but the closures will affect some 4,700 students in the Big Apple, and represents the largest school consolidation in the history of the state's archdiocese.
Kevin Carey of Education Sector has a great post out today looking at the use of teacher quality data in personnel decisions. He's writing about higher education, but the point applies to K-12 as well: