A Time for Change: The 42nd Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public Schools
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.The questions change but one key finding stays the same
More Trouble for Middle Schools
Peter MeyerSee Martin West's blog this morning at Education Next about the new research from Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (Columbia Business School) showing serious negative side effects fr
A Valuable Value-Added Story
Peter MeyerNot a lot of new ground is broken here, but Sam Dillon of the New York Times does a good job summarizing the issues ? including the hot-button topic?of naming names ? surrounding value-added assessments. ?Peter Meyer
Poll: Who should win our New Yorker-style caption contest?
Last Friday, we laid down a challenge of great intellectual might.? We asked you, our intrepid readers, to give a caption to the following picture:
Quotable & Notable
?We've gotten out and told our members, if you don't get involved in this election, the alternative is much worse.? ?David A. Sanchez, President of the California Teachers Association
Worse than banal
The commandant of the Rick Hess Straight Up blog was?deflated by what?he heard from Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on ABC's Sunday-morning, political talk show, This W
Defamation!
New Jersey's former education commissioner, Bret Schundler, is now claiming that the state's governor ?defamed? him. ?I will not accept being defamed by the governor for something he knows I did not do,? Schundler wrote. ?Liam Julian
On books
The critic Carlin Romano, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, wonders if ten years hence books will be largely vestigial:
Political beat
Sharron Angle is a Nevadan running for the U.S. Senate. And according to the Think Progress blog, she is not in favor of funding public schools. ?Liam Julian
Latest why-we-didn't-sign-up-for-Race-to-the-Top excuse? The Bible
Emmy L. PartinSince Ohio won Race to the Top money last week, districts that didn't sign on to the state's proposal (nearly half of them) have gone on the defensive about why they didn't accept the federal dollars.??