EdNext video: Why school turnarounds don't work
If you enjoyed Andy Smarick's article on the fallacy of school turnarounds then you'll want to watch this Education Next video in which he and Mike Petrilli discuss the issue.
If you enjoyed Andy Smarick's article on the fallacy of school turnarounds then you'll want to watch this Education Next video in which he and Mike Petrilli discuss the issue.
Theodore R. (Ted) Sizer, who passed away last week after a long and valiant battle with cancer, was a towering figure in American education-and a wonderful guy.
Tomorrow, Education Next is releasing my article that makes the case against the current turnaround craze. Stay tuned for more.
Ten days ago, I wrote at length??here about the Department's shifting/uncertain position on federalism in education.
Whew, I just finished reading Secretary Duncan's??meaty address to the faculty and students at Teachers College at Columbia University.
The National Association of Scholars has??posted an article that highlights the work Andy Smarick has done tracking the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, the economic stimulus).
John Merrow of Learning Matters has an interview here with Robert Bobb, Detroit Public School's "Emergency Financial Manager," who was brought in to help right a school district with a $259 million deficit that's hemorrhaging students.
The New Haven, Connecticut school district has not failed to disappoint lately in grabbing our attention and is back in the news again- This time for
Quotable: "The psychological impact of no longer being at the bottom has been powerful here. For so long, people believed Baltimore would always be last, no matter how hard they worked."
Southern Education FoundationSeptember 2009
Paul Hill, Christine Campbell, David Menefee-Libey, Brianna Dusseault, Michael DeArmond, and Betheny GrossCenter on Reinventing Public EducationOctober 2009
It’s no broom-bedecked cover, but TIME coverage is still TIME coverage. In his recent article for that magazine, Gilbert Cruz reports that America's urban Catholic schools are facing a serious identity crisis--not to mention financial catastrophe.
Eric Isenberg, Steven Glazerman, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, Sarah Dolfin, Edward Britton, and Melanie Ali Mathematica Policy Research August 2009
Education research is slowly developing towards a cold hard science. So argues the latest edition of the Harvard Education Letter, which explores the role of economic research in education policy.
Here’s an idea to curb the dropout problem: Make it illegal. Heretofore, the legal school-leaving age in many states was 16, two years younger, typically, than that of a graduating senior. But now states are amending their statutes to raise that bar to 18, meaning that nonattendance prior to that age would be truancy--and against the law.
If you haven’t heard the news that the newspaper industry is dying, you must not be reading the newspaper anymore. Which is entirely possible. According to the Pew Research Center, newspaper readership fell 5 percent in just the past year, and advertising revenues are down 23 percent over the past two years.
There’ll probably be more stories like this one: Chicago Public Schools is ending its version of Roland Fryer’s paying-students experiment. A number of cities, Chicago included, started pilot versions of programs that paid low-performing low-income students for good attendance, good behavior, and good grades.
I'll be away from Flypaper for the next two days at the annual meeting of the White House Fellows Association, but before departing I wanted to use this opportunity to encourage our talented readers to consider applying for this astonishingly valuable program.
Quotable: "They [states] were told to focus on one-time investments as much as possible. At the same time, the Department of Education sold this as a job and reform package...They say on one hand, preserve and create jobs. On the other hand, they talk about education reform."
Quotable: "We're getting a bit more particular...We are learning more about what it means to be prepared to open a school, and these schools just didn't live up to expectations." -Brian Allen, chairman of the Utah State Charter School Board
I just finished reading Diane Ravitch's 2000 book??Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. I recommend it strongly.
Quotable: "Why would you sign a memorandum of understanding with a country that's so far behind us on average results and on dealing with low socio-economic students and minority students?" -Trevor Cobbold, spokesman for Save Our Schools, an Aussie public education advocacy group
Today's New York Times reports on a new RAND study evaluating the Big Apple's attempts to end "social promotion," the egregious practice of simply passing students on to the next gr
Today, Secretary Duncan is giving a speech about the federal role in education (check out Jamie's post about the speech??
Though I wasn't crazy about Secretary Duncan's speech today about federalism, his recent comments to the AP about Race to the Top applications were quite encouraging. In this AEI report, I warned about "Trojan Horse" proposals.
If you ask me, the Fordham team has had a shockingly fecund and entertaining blogging week. Videos, interviews, pictures of wooden horses, charts, graphs, and more...not to mention some analysis of education stuff! I figured the best way to end this exciting week would be to point you to a law journal article! Smokin' hot!
Arne Duncan seems to be everywhere lately - even popping up last week on the Colbert Report.