Naming names: Paternalism, meet political correctness
David Whitman writes about the coverage of his new book, Sweating the Small Stuff.
David Whitman writes about the coverage of his new book, Sweating the Small Stuff.
The Americans didn't win a medal on the penultimate day of the 2008 Education Olympics, leaving them just one more chance for a top-three finish. A special guest joins us, sort of, to size up their chances. Full coverage at edolympics.net.
With the most glorious moments of the 2008 Summer Olympics for Team USA now mostly behind us, commentators are finally turning their attention to the slightly less sexy, but surely more significant Education Olympics.
George Will, the nation's most widely syndicated columnist, weighs in today on
CATO's Neal McLuskey and Eduwonk Andy Rotherham are strange bedfellows, but they both have the same burning question on their minds: Why would national standards and tests be any better than state
This week's Gadfly is now available for all the world to see.
The evidence, as always, is mixed. Yesterday, the New York Times noted that the Big Apple's dollars-for-high-test-scores program hasn't worked.
We discovered last week that not only is Debbie Phelps the principal of Windsor Mill Middle School in Maryland, but that Windsor Mill didn't make AYP last year.
Since the blog has taken a more serious turn as of late, I proffer you this: "Ga. Schools superintendent to appear on ???5th grader'"