Quotable & Notable
?Most days I wake up and think, gosh, we've just begun to scratch the surface of issues that plague this school system.'' ?Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools
?Most days I wake up and think, gosh, we've just begun to scratch the surface of issues that plague this school system.'' ?Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools
The DC Democratic primary?which had Vincent Gray ousting Adrian Fenty?has many in the edu-blogo-sphere wondering: what will happen to Michelle Rhee once Gray takes the reins?
Natalie Hopkinson has figured out what has caused all the preternatural perennial [look, they both start with the same letter and it's Friday afternoon, okay?] problems in Washington, D.C.'s public s
That's how the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss, on the paper's Answer Sheet blog, described the D.C. premiere of Waiting for Superman. ?D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee,? Strauss wrote, ?used the occasion of the D.C.
Education writer Alfie Kohn takes on the Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson. Some of Kohn's points are fine, but really: Is Samuelson so wrong?
It's missing an answer option: ?She should go. She has already made clear that she doesn't want to work with Vincent Gray, and so their relationship could not be a productive one.? ?Liam Julian
All the buzz is about education reform in the District of Columbia in a post-Adrian Fenty (and, probably, post-Michelle Rhee) world. Here's a thought: the massive attention on the D.C.
?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