Hubris alert!
The news media is clearly anticipating the announcement of an education secretary pick soon, because the k-12 issue hasn't gotten this much attention since George Bush and Ted Kennedy teamed up to pass the No Child Left Behind Act.
The news media is clearly anticipating the announcement of an education secretary pick soon, because the k-12 issue hasn't gotten this much attention since George Bush and Ted Kennedy teamed up to pass the No Child Left Behind Act.
I've been quite transparent about my interest in seeing the education secretary job filled by a sitting or former governor.
This Washington Post analysis is a nice cut on the school comparison genre.
Perhaps the news that yet another governor has taken herself out of contention led our Washington Insiders to put even more of their chips on Chicago superintendent Arne Duncan in the race for the ed
Jay Greene takes the measure of the auto industry's bailout bill in Congress and finds it wanting: It's now becoming clear that rather than moving K-12 public education to look more like a competitive market, we are moving the competitive market to look more like K-12 public education.
I'm not a teacher but Ashley Heard is. She was whipped into action (translation: letter to the editor of WaPo) this weekend after hearing about a shooting at Anacostia Senior High School. That said, don't listen to me, listen to her:
As many Americans face increasingly tight financial times--and some even unemployment--I found this story by Yoav Gonen
Apparently there's a book being released next year about giftedness and EducationNews.org