New Education Next website and blog
We give a warm welcome to Education Next's new website and blog, which already features a post by our own Mike Petrilli. The redesigned EdNext online has archived journal articles, videos and a podcast.
We give a warm welcome to Education Next's new website and blog, which already features a post by our own Mike Petrilli. The redesigned EdNext online has archived journal articles, videos and a podcast.
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that Diane Ravitch has taken an increasingly contrarian position on education reform, and sees a lot not to like in George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama's Race to the Top.
Greg Forster has nice things to say on Jaypgreene.com about our Friday Fun Fact video series.
This morning Secretary Duncan and Assistant Deputy Secretary Jim Shelton gave a preview of the $650 million "Investing in Innovation Fund" (or "I3"), the companion to the Race to the Top.
(Above) Susan Zelman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Flypaper readers are aware of my stand against the turnaround bandwagon. We instead should close persistently failing schools and open new ones with the DNA for success.
Can't make our event today, "With charter schools ascendant, is there still a future for vouchers ?" Then follow our live tweets on twitter at twitter.com/educationgadfly .
Critical Exposure , Healthy Schools Campaign and 21st Century School Fund are sponsoring a photo and essay contest on the subject of public school buildings:
David Wakelyn from the NGA Center for Best PracticesAugust 2009
When charter schools were introduced in Ohio, they were presented as vital options for students in underperforming urban schools. Eleven years later, charters have broken through the borders of the "Big Eight" urban districts.
I'm starting to think we should have a reader contest by that name. Last week I printed a letter from Joe Hawkins, a former Montgomery County official, explaining the underbelly of Weast's tenure.
My take on the Department's supposed pushiness, the states' need for cash, and the RTTT. MATCH's Goldstein, filling in at Eduwonk, on drafting off TFA.
He's not exactly the prodigal son , for he hasn't returned, and, well, he's not my son. But he's lost, gone "rogue" as one colleague put it, off the reservation.
I'm on Chapter 7 of my book (of 12). ????This one recommends a new way to look at the value of charter schooling (teaser: it's not about looking at the quality of individual schools). ????So I've been swimming in the previous research and writing on this subject. ????If you're interested in this subject, here are a few things you might want to check out:
This will make you laugh. And then it will make you cry at the poor state of the U.S. education system.
The sixth video in our Fun Fact Friday! video series looks at students and the attention they receive at school. ----- Video fact source:
Often it's hard as a writer to know if you are having any impact, in fact to know if anyone is even reading your stuff.
Gov. Strickland needs to make up his mind about what to do with persistently failing schools in Ohio.
There's encouraging news out of Hillsborough County, Florida this morning, the home of Tampa and the eighth largest school district in the country.??The headline from the??St.
So I argue in today's Education Gadfly. Read it here.
Not too much breaking news in the education world during these quiet August days. Secretary Duncan has even????decamped to the Last Frontier state.
As always you should read this week's????Gadfly (and listen to the????podcast while you're at it, though I've been
Today at a conference hosted by the Alliance for Excellent Education, titled Teachers'??
Marguerite RozaCenter on Reinventing Public Education, University of WashingtonJuly 2009
Echoing last week's Texan attempt to keep dropouts in school, currently-enrolled Florida students might think twice before taking that state's GED early exit.
After much squabbling and power grabbing, the New York state legislature has given mayoral control of New York City's schools back to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, thirty-eight days after the six-year old measure expired.
We predicted that Deborah Gist would bring her hard-knock reformer skills to Rhode Island, possibly manifesting in an overhaul of that state's timeworn, ineffectual teacher evaluation system. This seems to be exactly what she plans to do.
Here's one way school districts can cut costs and increase student learning: embrace "grade skipping" for their most advanced pupils. So argue Laura Vanderkam and Richard Whitmire in a recent Ed Week commentary.