Time to Sweat It: a New Approach to P.E.
Don't miss Marci Kanstoroom's??Holding Students Accountable for Changing into their Gym Clothes? on the Ed Next blog this morning:
Don't miss Marci Kanstoroom's??Holding Students Accountable for Changing into their Gym Clothes? on the Ed Next blog this morning:
Paul Tough, a former staff editor at The New York Times Magazine, has a lengthy op-ed piece in today's Times titled ?Don't Drop Out of School Innovation,?
It's Friday, and I am telling you to stop fearing fun. You may be asking, ?do I even have a (school) choice??
?Rather than stick with the same strategies and hope things somehow magically change, Congress should find more room in the budget to support the Obama administration's declared approach: to try new strategies and abandon failed ones; to expand and test programs with strong evidence of success, even if that evidence is inconclusive; and to learn from mista
The newest Washington Monthly just came?and it's the college rankings issue, with articles by Ben Miller (?College Dropout Factories?); Kevin Carey (?The Mayo Clinic of Higher Ed,? and ?America's Best Community Colleges?); and Erin Dillon (?America's Best Master's Universities and Baccalaureate Colleges?).
In this Sunday's Washington Post one?will find Diane Ravitch's selection of three books that ?have the power to change the national discussion of what now passes for ?school reform.'? And the winners are:
Paul Tough's op-ed in today's New York Times is called ?Don't Drop Out of School Innovation.? The innovation in question is the devotion of millions of dollars to construction, in cities across the land, of ?Promise Neighborhoods?
The columnist Dana Milbank's newspaper has allowed its pages to be used against him.