Commentary
First bell: 7-27-12
A quick look at today's top education news: Joel Klein on charters, voucher controversy in Louisiana, and more.
Video
Ten Years After NCLB: Is the GOP Moving Forward, Backward, or Sideways on Education?
What a difference a decade makes. For all the debate around vouchers and student loans, perhaps the most striking element of Mitt Romney's education agenda is how much it differs from the approach of No Child Left Behind, the defining policy of the George W. Bush years. That does not mean, however, that other Republicans necessarily agree with it. The GOP stance on education, and particularly federal education policy, is clearly shifting. But in any clear direction? And for the better?"Margaret Spellings" "Lamar Alexander" Senator "United States Senate" "Secretary of Education" "Department of Education" DOE ESEA NCLB Tennessee
Commentary
First bell: 7-26-12
A quick look at today's education news, featuring a new White House initiative for African-American education, another Office of Civil Rights investigation, and Arne Duncan's take on sequestration.
Commentary
Commentary
Alexander v. Spellings on the federal role in education: A viewer’s guide
A quick preview of tomorrow morning's Fordham LIVE! discussion between former secretaries of education Lamar Alexander and Margaret Spellings.
Commentary
First bell: 7-25-12
A quick look at today's top education stories, including a deal over a longer school day in Chicago and the latest Kids Count study.
Commentary
First bell: 7-24-12
A first look at today's education news: declining enrollment in urban districts, new voucher accountability in Louisiana, and more.
Commentary
First bell: 7-23-12
A first look at education news from the weekend and this morning: Revamped community college, trouble in D.C., and business as usual in the Windy City.
Report
School Finance, Governance
How Americans Would Slim Down Public Education
Education budgets are tight and state and district leaders must make tough decisions about where to save. But is the public willing to accept cuts? If so, where? According to the results of this new survey, many Americans are open—selectively open—to dramatic changes in how school districts do business.
Commentary
First bell: 7-20-12
Edtech, Joe Biden, and cheating on standardized tests are among the day's top stories.
Commentary
Commentary
Charter Schools
The case for public-school choice in the suburbs
“Customization” isn’t just for urban hipsters
Commentary
Where's the GOP on ed?
Come by Fordham’s D.C. office on July 26 for a conversation with Margaret Spellings and Lamar Alexander.
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Commentary
Charter Schools
Should CMOs really be in the business of ed reform?
The premise that charter management organizations can—or should—be effective advocacy vehicles rests on assumptions of questionable validity.
Commentary
The Gadfly Daily's week in review
A look back at wit and wisdom from Fordham's blogs for week of June 25, 2012.
Video
Is American Education Coming Apart?
For all the talk of gaps in achievement, opportunity, and funding between ethnic and racial groups in American education, a different divide may also be splitting our schools and our future. In his acclaimed and controversial recent book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, scholar/pundit/provocateur Charles Murray describes a widening class schism. On Tuesday, June 26, he will deliver a lecture on what that divide means for U.S. schools and education policy. What does it portend for student achievement? For diversity within schools and choices among them? Is our education system equipped to serve a society separated by social class?
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction
Next Generation Science Standards: Repairs needed
If at first you don't succeed...
Commentary
The Gadfly Daily’s week in review
A look back at wit and wisdom from the Fordham Institute's blogs from the week on June 18, 2012.
Commentary
Arne scorns Iowa: political courage or political suicide?
Will the Department of Education's rejection of the Hawkeye State's NCLB waiver application become an election issue?
Commentary
Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction
GAO and George Miller don’t understand how special education works
No single public school is expected to serve students with every single type of disability. Except, apparently, public charter schools.
Report
Standards
Commentary & Feedback on Draft I of the Next Generation Science Standards
In May, Achieve unveiled and solicited comments on the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards, the product of months of work by a team of writers from twenty-six states. This document provides commentary, feedback, and constructive advice that Fordham hopes the NGSS authors will consider as they revise the standards before the release of a second draft later this year.
Commentary
Commentary
"Gentrification" generates buzz
A quick look at the reactions to Mike's analysis of the top 25 "fastest-gentrifying" neighborhoods in America.