Election reflection
How should serious education reformers view the results of Tuesday's election? We find five causes for optimism and an equal number of worries.Reasons for Cheer
How should serious education reformers view the results of Tuesday's election? We find five causes for optimism and an equal number of worries.Reasons for Cheer
After two years of campaigning and endless punditry and prognosticating, we finally know that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli Reasons for Cheer
Passage of all the school levies on the ballot in Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, and Youngstown is a good sign of increasing support for education where it's needed most. The Gadfly knows that school districts don't always spend wisely or frugally but we also know that, in Ohio's largest and most economically depressed urban areas, public schools are getting hammered financially.
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As the country decides who'll be the next president, Marylanders may take a gamble for even more ???change??? ??? quite literally. They're deciding whether to legalize slot machines!
It's no secret that some of us (though
The recent NCLB regulations focus on high school graduation rates. Mark Schneider (as in former Bushie and now at AIR Mark Schneider), however, wants to know??the stats on college graduation rates.
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Fall Intern Molly Kennedy offers up this reading:
(Left to right): Fordham staffers in costume: Alice takes a peek through the Looking Glass, Sleeping Beauty catches some Zs, Snow White hums to the birds, Concert Goer #1 chills and a Wake Forest track star stretches.
Ted Mitchell and Jonathan Schorr of the NewSc
This week, we start off with a double header on the education system's economic woes--and what to do about them. First Checker explains why districts have so much trouble cutting the fat. Enlightening, surely, but not too surprising.
You gotta love California. Seems the Golden State, worried that their wee toddlers' arms are too short for proper tree-huggery, will inculcate them with the prerequisite environmentalism another way: through their stomachs.
John Staud, ed.Alliance for Catholic Education PressAugust 2008
Frederick M. Hess, ed.Harvard Education PressSeptember 2008
Dreading the pinch of a tight economy on your state's budget? You're not alone. According to the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, nearly every state experienced flat or declining revenues in the first half of 2008 compared to last year, and 39 states have developed "budget shortfalls"--gaps between expected revenue and planned expenditures.
It's hard to miss the media firestorm over Chicago's latest educational innovation, the School for Social Justice Pride Campus. The school would cater to gay students who are teased and bullied at their current schools.
There's plenty of evidence that state and municipal budgets are strapped these days, due to shrinking tax revenues from a faltering economy, declining property values, etc. It's also clear that a number of school systems are feeling the pinch.
Chi-town, home of deep dish pizza, The Band, and an education reform powerhouse? That's John Simmon's take.