The Gadfly Daily's week in review
A look back at wit and wisdom from Fordham's blogs for week of June 25, 2012.
A look back at wit and wisdom from Fordham's blogs for week of June 25, 2012.
For all the talk of gaps in achievement, opportunity, and funding between ethnic and racial groups in American education, a different divide may also be splitting our schools and our future. In his acclaimed and controversial recent book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, scholar/pundit/provocateur Charles Murray describes a widening class schism. On Tuesday, June 26, he will deliver a lecture on what that divide means for U.S. schools and education policy. What does it portend for student achievement? For diversity within schools and choices among them? Is our education system equipped to serve a society separated by social class?
If at first you don't succeed...
A look back at wit and wisdom from the Fordham Institute's blogs from the week on June 18, 2012.
Will the Department of Education's rejection of the Hawkeye State's NCLB waiver application become an election issue?
Education’s mini mills
No single public school is expected to serve students with every single type of disability. Except, apparently, public charter schools.
In May, Achieve unveiled and solicited comments on the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, the product of months of work by a team of writers from twenty-six states. This document provides commentary, feedback, and constructive advice that Fordham hopes the NGSS authors will consider as they revise the standards before the release of a second draft later this year.
The list, part II
A quick look at the reactions to Mike's analysis of the top 25 "fastest-gentrifying" neighborhoods in America.
What communities have changed the most demographically from 2000 to 2010?
You might not agree with Eli Broad’s views on education. But it would be foolish to take him as naïve. His unreasonableness has led to tremendous success for sixty years. And he’s not done with America’s schools yet.