Rick Hess in the house
Watch out edusphere, here comes Hess. Our good friend (and Gadfly show co-host) Rick Hess has launched a new blog, Rick Hess Straight Up on the coveted real estate of edweek.org.
Watch out edusphere, here comes Hess. Our good friend (and Gadfly show co-host) Rick Hess has launched a new blog, Rick Hess Straight Up on the coveted real estate of edweek.org.
In 2004, after realizing that the Charter School Leadership Council, a loose coalition of pro-charter school organizations, couldn't meet the needs of the burgeoning charter school sector, a number of the nation's top charter leaders created the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
???We've gotten all of these accolades, and our schools are showing such success, so do we change policies to go after ones that we're not even guaranteed to get???? ???Paul Pinksy, Maryland State Senator
This new report from NCTQ about state policies on teachers deserves attention for lots of reason (Daniela writes it up here.)
In this week's Gadfly, I take a look at the massive School Improvement Fund, the federal government's primary tool for funding and directing school turnarounds.
???The solution to underperforming schools is much more complex than who's in charge.?? To suggest that this is a silver bullet is na??ve at best.??? -Tom Madden, Minneapolis School Board Chairman
The annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is under way in California this week and today's speakers include Bill Gates, who we all know has invested billions of dollars in U.S. education via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Gary Orfield, the head of the UCLA Civil Rights Project, has faced a barrage of attacks from charter school supporters in recent days, after his center published a study looking at the high inc
MD with some impressive AP results But nationally more students failing AP tests AL House??rejects charter school bill, but MS senate passes one
???It's changing the concept of school from ???here's what you have to know, you get it or you don't get it and we're moving on anyway.??? -Susanne Daggett, education specialist with the Oregon Department of Education
And can anyone tell the difference?
"It requires a lot of wraparound services. It's not easy; but we have to do it. You can't just write-off one-third of your high school graduates. You can't do that in this economy." ??? Nancy McCallin, President, Colorado Community College System
On primary-secondary education, as on most topics, Mr.
Robin Lake, Ed.Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington at BothellJanuary 2010
Alliance for Excellent EducationJanuary 2010 The commonly cited phrase that an investment in kids is an investment in our collective future is no understatement. This report by the Alliance for Excellent Education examines the potential impact of increased high school graduation rates on local economies, individual earnings, and home sales.
Curious as to how Fordham manages to churn out so much terrific education news and analysis in such a timely fashion? We employ a Gadfly of course. Watch this video to learn more.
In Gadfly’s January 8th “Decade in Review,” I noticed a minor inaccuracy concerning the September 1999 entry about school facilities. The tobacco settlement provided only $2.5 billion of the Rebuilding Ohio Schools initiative I launched in the fall of 1999. I proposed a 12-year, $10.2 billion plan to rebuild all of Ohio's schools.
Interest is building over how best to teach history to Ohio’s public school kids. Largely ignored thus far by the media, the draft social studies standards – read, history – have been noticed by the education and history community.
Don’t feel like reading through 41 Race to the Top applications? (We don’t blame you.
Learning Point Associates & Public AgendaJane Goggshall, Amber Ott, & Molly LasagnaJanuary 2010
In the brouhaha over last week's UCLA Civil Rights Project reporton charter school "segregation," one talking point seems unimpeachable: that it's??paternalistic or
Post's Hiatt on Obama's "killing off DC's voucher program" Will Alabama ever pass a charter school law?
Those in the Mid-Atlantic region know that we've been drowned in the white fluffy stuff. I'm talking about snow and lots and lots of it.
We've been talking about the Administration's FY 2011 education budget for a week or so now.
As Andy reported, yesterday's release of a new UCLA Civil Rights Project report on charter school diversity (or the lack thereof) has sparked another
Not long ago, I??praised NYC's charter team for moving to close a Brooklyn school that had violated important parts of its performance contract.
One of the US Department of Education's unsung heroes is its??Policy and Program Studies Service, which produces all sorts of interesting and unbiased evaluations and reports. Too few people know about the office's publications (I hope Secretary Duncan's team is working on increasing PPSS's public profile), which are often very valuable.
I was busy finishing the first draft of my book (whew!) when the President's 2011 budget came out, so all of the budget publicity and punditry passed me by. I've finally had a chance to give all of the documents a read, so at the risk of being late and repetitive, here are my 8 big takeaways.
New York Magazine has a cover story entitled ???The Junior Meritocracy.??? The crux of the article is that administering standardized admissions and IQ tests to 4-year-olds???a common practice for entry into top public and private NYC kindergartens???is pointless.
The Race to the Top Commencement Challenge winner has been announced: Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan.