Education News Nuggets
It's not surprising that there are health benefits for kids who walk to school, but now research indicates that it might make them smarter, too (if you can even
It's not surprising that there are health benefits for kids who walk to school, but now research indicates that it might make them smarter, too (if you can even
?Most days I wake up and think, gosh, we've just begun to scratch the surface of issues that plague this school system.'' ?Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools
The DC Democratic primary?which had Vincent Gray ousting Adrian Fenty?has many in the edu-blogo-sphere wondering: what will happen to Michelle Rhee once Gray takes the reins?
Natalie Hopkinson has figured out what has caused all the preternatural perennial [look, they both start with the same letter and it's Friday afternoon, okay?] problems in Washington, D.C.'s public s
That's how the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss, on the paper's Answer Sheet blog, described the D.C. premiere of Waiting for Superman. ?D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee,? Strauss wrote, ?used the occasion of the D.C.
Education writer Alfie Kohn takes on the Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson. Some of Kohn's points are fine, but really: Is Samuelson so wrong?
It's missing an answer option: ?She should go. She has already made clear that she doesn't want to work with Vincent Gray, and so their relationship could not be a productive one.? ?Liam Julian