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Fund the child
In Britain, Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education, hopes to centralize education spending through a plan to fund individual schools directly, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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The Black Watch begins
There's nothing like living in the media capital of the world ? that be the city otherwise known as New York.? And thanks to Mike Bloomberg, education in Gotham is hot (sorry Joe Williams, but I'm not sure ?sexy? is the right word). Even if school improvement there is all smoke and mirrors, it's front-page and it's fun.
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The End of an Era: Ravitch v. Klein
Diane Ravitch took some parting shots at Joel Klein last week with a short post on the New York Review of Books' blog headlined ?New York's New School Czar.??
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Down under deja vu
A report released today by the Grattan Institute of Australia finds that ?governments waste millions of dollars in education on expensive and ineffectual programs to reduce class sizes.? It continues:
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Step 1: Collect data; Step 2: Do something with it
Review: Putting Data into Practice: Lessons from New York City
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Education News Nuggets
Buon giorno, Fordhamites. Waiting for Friday? Just make sure not to fall asleep on the job.
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Quotable & Notable
?It's long been said that the new reformers deeply underestimate the complexity of the challenge facing educators. A mayor with near total control of the schools, importing a magazine publisher, with no significant previous exposure to public education, to run the largest school system in the country is a good way to bolster that critique.'' *
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Introducing the Gifted Gap
Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?
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Is lack of sports options really an educational civil rights issue?
The Columbus City School District, Ohio's largest, is being targeted by an anti-discrimination group?among twelve districts nationwide?for allegedly not
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Can technology rescue school budgets?
State budgets are racing toward a budget cliff that is expected to be a cumulative $140 billion in fiscal year 2012.
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Want to see ESEA updated in 2011? Try this approach
With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA/NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches. Will the new Congress finally tackle this problem in 2011? Can it work with the Administration? For that matter, can it work with itself? The President murmurs about bipartisanship in education.
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Deficit reduction proposal lets schools off easy
That's my quick read of the report released today by National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The only specific recommendations related to k-12 education are to eliminate the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and to offload the Department of Defense schools on local districts.
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If we've got so few bright students, how are we still leading the world?
Education Next, where I'm an executive editor, just published a powerful new study by Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann. It finds that the United States trails thirty other countries in the percentage of students scoring at an advanced level on the PISA math exam.
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Education News Nuggets
It's no secret that being a teacher can be tough enough without worrying about whether you'll end up in the hospital af
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Update your Flypaper RSS Feed
We've changed the home of the Flypaper blog today and wanted to alert you to a change in our RSS feed.
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Quotable & Notable
?Even if you are doing the right things, if you don't engage with people in your communities, you will spend your time fighting. How many shoes can you step on?? * Pedro Noguera, Professor, New York University
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Quotable & Notable
?To judge by the reaction in the edu-blogosphere, any joy engendered by the announcement of [Joel Klein's] resignation was quickly extinguished when the identity of his successor became known? Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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Stretching the School Dollar Event ? airs November 20
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, our October 26 event?Cost-Cutting Strategies and Opportunities for Schools and Districts?will air on C-Span's Book TV on
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Event Highlights: School Leadership Matters
We wanted to share some highlights from our November 10 event ? School Leadership Matters?which we co-hosted with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress.
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Heads up, ESEA reauthorizers!
Review: Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities
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The same thing over and over
It's the title of Frederick M. Hess's forthcoming book, which will be released next week (Monday, methinks).
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Reflection
For eight years, Joel Klein has led the New York City public schools. In a new New York Times interview, he reflects on that period and on his decision to move forward to new challenges. Q: Was it a hard decision [to leave]?
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A change in teacher training?
It may be happening in the U.K. As James Noble-Rogers writes in The Independent:
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The saga of value-added
The Los Angeles Board of Education, in a unanimous vote, has finalized a contract with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center, which will, the Los Angeles Times reports, ?analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test score
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?Dominick Go Frisk ?Em?: More Trouble for Catholic Schools*
Lost in the dust stirred up by Joel Klein's resignation the other day was a historic announcement that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York was going to close thirty-two schools in the city.?That represents some 17 percent of its 185 schools and affe
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Putting Data into Practice: Lessons from New York City
Step 1: Collect data; Step 2: Do something with it