I realize this is a bit last minute, but tonight, our research director, Amber Winkler, is going to be a panelist at an interesting event that I wanted to flag. The topic is: ?Re-Imagining Urban Education:?How Do We Improve Our Schools??
EducationNews.org?interviewed Kathleen Porter-Magee, who of course, heads up our High Quality Standards Program here at Fordham. Among other things, Kathleen says that there are a lot of interventions that, when implemented properly, will improve student achievement.
Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education makes some predictions about Tuesday's implications for education in a new School of Thought column for Time:
The head of the White House Domestic Policy Council believes education is the issue that will unite the country. So, too, does the nation's secretary of education, Arne Duncan.
Are tax credit scholarship programs constitutional when the state tuition organization overseeing the donations funnels them to private schools of a particular religion?
?Will Andrew Cuomo defy the special interests that have long controlled Albany ? starting with the public-sector labor unions whose political arm endorsed him ? to deliver the kind of change he promised in his successful campaign for governor of New York??
Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat's democrat, bucked the nation's rightward drift and swept into New? York's governor's mansion (where he spent a good deal of his youth) with 62 percent of the votes on Tuesday.
The low-down on teacher pensions
The murkiness of religious charter schools
Heads up, ESEA reauthorizers!
I've already explained what last night's election results will mean for federal education policy. But what about education writ large? It's pretty simple: a new era of budget austerity is upon us, and it won't be popular at all. Republicans: congratulations?
Election Day has come and gone, but there's still plenty up in the air?and some states will be waiting for absentee ballots and
?What is fairly clear at this point is that the next Congress will be interested in a more humble approach to federal policy. What's less well understood is that Obama's Blueprint for ESEA Reauthorization suits the current political climate remarkably well.'' Chad Aldeman, Policy Analyst, Education Sector
There were a number of education-related ballot initiatives that either?survived or went down in defeat?yesterday (not many survivors, actually). A few are described below and Education Week did a roundup story.
Leadership of the House of Representatives is tendered to the Republicans, and Capitol Hill soothsayers foretell gridlock galore.
Review: Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: How Teacher Performance Assessments Can Measure and Improve Teaching
Everyone wants to know what a Republican-controlled House of Representatives will mean for ESEA reauthorization. Here's my take: it will mean less money, and less reform. And on the whole, that will be a good thing.
After much anticipation, Election Day is finally here?and we've got the photos to prove it.?
?Once you put authorizers in the position of being at once a regulator and a support agency, you've put the authorizer in the game too much.'' ?Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner at Bellwether Education Partners
Washington Post's Jay Mathews has a new column out this morning, about election day and what it might mean for education policy if Republicans gain control of the U.S. House (and,?according to?some daring suggestions, maybe even the Senate).
First, the good news: The Wall Street Journal reports that ?two national education groups? have spent some $3.5 million in local, political campaigns ?in an effort to challenge teachers unions' longstanding clout in the political arena.?
David Lazarus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, feels an understandable?duty to educate his young son and prepare him ?for whatever life may throw at him.?
You may have seen today's piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer about proposed salary caps for school district administrators in New Jersey.
With a financial squeeze (?strangle hold? might actually be more accurate) on the horizon for Ohio,?voters are eager to hear how soon-to-be elected officials will handle the state's mammoth budget hole. Not surprisingly, many fear the budget saw (see photo below for a special Fordham interpretation of ?budget saw?) will fall on K-12 education as it represents 40 percent of the state's budget.
Stop the presses! We have a winner of the Who Said It? contest ? two, actually.? (That was fast. Too easy, I guess.) ?Though I like Jamie's entry, which was close ? ?an artist formerly known as Prince? ? ?commenters known as Hmmmmmmmm and Eric (hmmm?) both got it right:
