Quotable & Notable
?Mr. Fenty's defeat could send a discouraging signal to other big-city mayors considering far-reaching education overhauls.? ?Michael J. Phillips and Stephanie Branchero, Wall Street Journal
?Mr. Fenty's defeat could send a discouraging signal to other big-city mayors considering far-reaching education overhauls.? ?Michael J. Phillips and Stephanie Branchero, Wall Street Journal
Feeling just a bit sheepish about being one of the few people in the throng who hadn't already seen this film, I went last evening (with Fordham research director Amber Winkler) to the big Paramount/Viacom-sponsored Washington premiere of Waiting for ?Superman??the much-discussed new education movie.
A blueprint for how states can break the cycle of ineffective district intervention
Intensive high school reading programs work--temporarily
Districts are iffy on the what and how of turnaround initiatives
Rhee may move away, but charters are here to stay
DE ousts one of America's great edu-reformers
It's understandable that education reformers will go out of their way to argue that Michelle Rhee's reforms weren't determinative in Adrian Fenty's mayoral re-election bid.
I knew as soon as we had finished saying the Pledge that it could be an interesting school Board meeting: there were only four members present, which (because we were a 7-member board) meant that we had to have unanimous consent to pass any resolution, including, as we would soon learn, convening a meeting.
There will be a lot of post-mortem's on Adrian Fenty's dramatic fall from grace in D.C.? This is a good one from the Post, which concludes that the mayor ?misread an electorate he was sure he knew better than anyone, ?
Now that Fenty's been ousted, the big question is Michelle Rhee: will she go?
?What we don't need is more scapegoating of public service workers and their benefits.'' -Matt O'Connor, Spokesman for the Connecticut State Employees Association
The people who run the Think Tank Review Project have a newish book out: <
Al Sharpton. New show. On TV. Sunday mornings. Talking education. Seriously. ?Liam Julian
Last year, for the first time, ?more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees,? writes Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post. ?Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education,?
Vincent Gray, candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., was asked by CNN's John King if he, Gray, were he to be elected, would retain Michelle Rhee as the city's schools chancellor. ?Well, we'll see,? said Gray.
Besides almost certainly forfeiting a Senate seat that the GOP could have?taken in November, Delaware's Republican primary voters yesterday made a colossal mistake when it comes to education policy. Mike Castle is, and for two decades has been, one of American education's wisest, sagest and bravest reformers.
Dayton Daily News ran two articles yesterday illustrating a frustrating dichotomy when it comes to charter school quality in Ohio, one lifting up the happy fact that eight of the top ten public schools in Dayton are charters and the
Each year, we analyze the academic performance of schools in Ohio’s Big 8 cities. We examine things like the number of kids in schools rated A, B, C, D, or F by the Ohio Department of Education, the number who attend schools that meet (or fail to) value-added gains, academic performance over t
Among Ohioans, Youngstown is known as much for its appallingly low academic achievement as it is for being part of the blighted “Steel Valley” that’s lost so many jobs in recent decades.
Jonathan EckertAugust 2010
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Apparently if you’re a college professor with a tattoo there’s a good chance that you’ll be loved by your students. According to a recent psychological study – as featured on the NYTimes’ Freakonomics blog, students believe that pro
In November, voters in two tiny Hancock County communities will go to the polls and decide if they want to investigate the possibility of merging their equally small school districts.
With more than 300 charter schools serving nearly 100,000 children, Ohio is known for its significant school choice market. Two of its cities (Dayton and Youngstown) are in the top ten cities nationally in terms of charter-school market share.
Nice letter about the charter segregation issue from Robert Holland of the Heartland Institute. ?Peter Meyer