Fordham-authorized school ranks among very best urban public middle schools
Education Next's recent article on middle schools (?Stuck in the Middle?) reminds us how difficult it is for middle schools to serve students well.
Education Next's recent article on middle schools (?Stuck in the Middle?) reminds us how difficult it is for middle schools to serve students well.
The Times says that the Mark Zuckerberg donation to the troubled New Jersey city school system is ?good news.?? And Oprah is bringing the Facebook founder on her show today to talk about it.
NYT Columnist Bob Herbert receives a needed tongue-lashing from Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson in this morning's Times. Responding to Herbert's?post-D.C.
?Designing effective incentives for teachers is a mighty complex task, full of many subtle decisions and much uncertainty. This study, like the ones before it, and the ones that will surely follow it, is highly inconclusive.? [Referring to Vanderbilt University merit pay study]
The National Academies just released a new report, ?Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5,? which isn't really new at all: its authors are the same people who wrote the 2005?publication ?Rising Above the Gathering Storm?
Lindsay Johns, a writer and ?hip hop intellectual,? turns in a keen article in Britain's Prospect magazine. He writes to defend the Western canon and, more specifically, to make the point that the canon is just as relevant to black students as to white.