Youngstown needs to think outside the box
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.
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
I'm not sure how many people still read Time magazine, but the venerable weekly seems to be doing better than Newsweek. (Disclosure: I once worked for Time.)
Sam Dillon's story entitled ?Racial Disparity in School Suspensions? in this morning's NY Times brings to mind the time that our elementary school went into lockdown when a rubber knife was discovered in a first-grader's lunch box.?
From banning hugs to allowing breakfast in class, new policies make me wonder: are these really the changes we need?
?I am convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game-changer in public education.? - Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
As if Asian countries (and Asian authoritarian island city-states) weren't already whooping the U.S. in all categories educational, now they'll have Yale. ?Liam Julian
?The president should have said something in support of Fenty? according to NPR commentator Juan Williams, who referred to Barack Obama's silence on Washington, D.C.'s mayoral Democratic Party primary race. D.C. Councilman Jim Graham believes that the president, had he given Adrian Fenty his public backing, ?could have won the election for Adrian.?
Sam Dillon's New York Times story from last Friday seems to have flown under the EduRadar.? And it shouldn't have.
The New York Times' Week in Review on Sunday followed up on its Science Times story from last Tuesday, ?Forget What You Know About Studying,?
?How can we steer a course back toward our founding principles in education? The first step is to send dollars and decision-making authority out of Washington and back to states, localities, and ultimately, parents.'' -Jennifer Marshall, Director, Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation
The forthcoming documentary Waiting for Superman is ?inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete,? according to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. She makes several fair points . . . and, of course, several trite ones.
Whitney Tilson, a hedge fund manager who writes a widely read education blog, and Kevin Carey, the policy director at Education Sector, have both eviscerated Washington Post columnist Colbert King for his recent piece, ?Time for Rhee to go.?
The headline in the Washington Post was ?Austan Goolsbee: triathlete, improv comedian, economist.? Given the state of the economy, Obama's new Chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers might need the improv comedian talents?more than anything.
As a child, my parents would threaten: If your toys are on the floor, they end up in the trash bin.
With the President interrupting class time next week, and students becoming more and more distracted, how can we expect students to take advantage of the little time they do have i
?It may sound nuts to talk about fixing school finance systems when districts are struggling to make payroll, but actually, a tough recession may be the only opportunity to do it.'' ?Jacob E. Adams Jr., Professor at the Claremont Graduate University
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (known as P-21) announced the other day that it has entered into a ?strategic management agreement? with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) under which the chiefs will house the P-21 team and provide them with diverse management services.
My jaw did the proverbial drop when I read this opening sentence in a front page story in Sunday's Albany Times Union: Albany's charter schools have created a second school system that is almost entirely segregated.
?When it comes to reforming a failed school system, you either go monomaniacal or go home.'' ?WashingtonCityPaper.com Editorial Board, with HT to Linda Perlstein