A Chinese Sarafina
Think domestic identity cards went the way of Apartheid? Think again. The Chinese hukou system is alive and well.
Think domestic identity cards went the way of Apartheid? Think again. The Chinese hukou system is alive and well.
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously gave birth to analytic philosophy by declaring, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” As we enter the second decade of the most globalized century in human history, we can ill afford to be bound by our linguistic limits.
National Center for Education StatisticsSarah Grady, Stacey Bielick, and Susan AudApril 2010
The former commissioner of the National Center on Education Statistics (a.k.a.
As we've mentioned before, McGregor Elementary in Canton stands out for consistently delivering academic results despite serving an area that's been particularly hard hit by Ohio's industrial decline.
?I can't tell you how much I wish Race to the Top would have created a firestorm. The reality is, it didn't.? ? Jeanne Allen, President and Founder, Center for Education Reform
One of the best things about my job is that I get to spend time with real teachers and real students learning about their challenges, their opportunities, their worries, and their good work. Last night I was asked to be a judge for the second annual Richard Allen Schools' student debate in Dayton.
Should Ohioans worry that recent cuts to early childhood education might widen the preschool access gap between Ohio and other states? Yes, according to a new report by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University. But state leaders can remedy this problem by enacting smart changes to early learning programs in the next budget.
As most of you know, Fordham has been a charter school sponsor (aka, ???authorizer???) in Ohio since 2005. Along the way we've learned a lot about the importance of charter sponsors holding schools accountable for results, and about how the a sponsor's size and economy of scale (or lack thereof) factors into this.
The State Board of Education is slated to adopt new academic content standards in science at its June meeting. Lynn Elfner, executive director of the Ohio Academy of Science, and Stan W.
The D.C. Public Schools and the Washington Teachers Union just reached an agreement on a new teacher contract. Reformers are calling it the boldest of its kind.
Word has it (here, too) Cleveland will be among the cities in which the new Common Core national standards will be piloted. The timeline is
My post yesterday, arguing that we have too many veteran teachers who cost too much and add too little value, stirred up quite a bit of controversy, both here on Flypaper and over at
I opined last week on the fate of the British education system in light of Thursday's confusing election results.
Heard about the new movie The Cartel? It's the story of the mafia-esque education establishment in New Jersey and it's quite a whopper. It came out last summer when it played at a number of independent film festival screenings in the Garden State?and at which point Gadfly caught wind of it.
As a few smart guys predicted fifteen months ago, the budget crisis is putting serious pressure on teacher se
We might not have a K-12 master plan, but that doesn't mean we can't still learn a lot from the military ?
?This is an incredibly special moment in American history, where you have Republicans in New Jersey agreeing with a Democratic president on how to get reform.? ? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
We've been ruminating about education reform in the motherland recently, especially the ideas of the resurgent Tories and their plan for state-funded ?independent? schools. But as of this morning, the situation in Britain remains unclear.
?If we're going to go to national standards, which I'm very supportive of, I'd rather be at the table deciding what they're going to be than be on the sidelines having them done to us.? ?Winston Brooks, Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent
The Department has released the list of states intending to apply in round 2 of RTT.
Reform legislation is on its way to the governors desk in CT. It wouldn't have happened with the outstanding reform organization ConnCan.
Charles Murray's New York Times op-ed on the merits and limitations of charter schooling coincided quite well with Fordham's event yesterday on the very same topic.
Sandra Stotsky, Christian Goering, David JolliffeUniversity of ArkansasSpring 2010
Heather Schwartz, Columbia UniversityFord Foundation Project on Choice District GovernanceJanuary 2010
David T. ConleyJossey-Bass2010
Not long ago, I laid hold of this space to voice my concern that private foundations are getting entirely too palsy-walsy with Uncle Sam—and that he’s doing his ardent utmost to draw them into an intimate embrace.