It seems that teachers in Buffalo, NY, racked up nearly $9 million worth of taxpayer-covered cosmetic procedures in 2009. This is according to the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority, the state-appointed authority overseeing public school finances. That's right?chemical peels, skin treatments, etc.
October must be the month for manifestos. Earlier this month there was the ?how to fix our schools?
What makes a good school? If you're to believe the Century Foundation, good schools are defined by the number of affluent students they serve. Too few? Bad school. Nearly all? Good school. This is, of course, the idea behind economic integration. Give more poor students the privilege of attending wealthier schools and student achievement will improve.
Or is the fact that charter operator Eva Moskowitz has just won a charter for a new school on Manhattan's upper west side a sign that??rich people (this needs to be checked)?can live with (among?) poor public schools too?
Character programs lack social intelligence
Wrong methods for the right ideas
Can be summarized by this short passage in today's Ohio Education Gadfly:
NJ teachers don't have very nice things to say about Chris Christie behind closed doors, which Christie's not exactly thrilled about?
?There's not a hint in the Constitution that we ought to have it, and there's not a shred of evidence that it's done anything to improve education.'' Representative Roscoe G. Bartlett on the Department of Education
Washington, D.C.'s mayor-in-waiting, Vincent Gray, wants to assure private foundations that education reform is high on his agenda. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Things are not well at Dartmouth and Cornell: But in an effort to spur gifts among young soon-to-be alumni, students at two Ivy League institutions are trying a different approach: publicizing the names of seniors who don't contribute to their class gift.
The nation's education secretary, Arne Duncan, was talking schools today in Richmond at the Governor's Education Summit. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Identifying flaws and hypocrisy and what-the-heck-are-you-talking-about-ness in Diane Ravitch's arguments has become about as easy as taking candy from a particularly enfeebled infant?one with weak little fingers and no resolve?and about as pointless. If anyone can do it, why bother? But sometimes the baby is holding a bar made from Criollo cocoa, and you?simply can't resist.
I like much that appears in the New York Review of Books, but when that publication has Diane Ravitch review Waiting for ?Superman,? I wonder. Perhaps its editors might ask Bill Gates to evaluate the next iPhone?
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says: ?Bullying is a problem that shouldn't exist.? Profound. Just wait until he takes on starvation, rape, and genocide.
The U.S. Department of Education has announced, ?as part of a guidance on bullying, that Jewish students who are harassed at schools enjoy the protections of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,? according to an exultant press release from the American Jewish Committee.
It's hardly newsworthy to say that, across the country, Catholic schools?particularly those schools that serve the neediest children in urban areas?are closing at record pace.
Along with ed school accreditation processes, education professors believe that the entire system of university-based teacher education is in need of improvement, according to our
A?number of years ago (1989 to be exact) I reported and wrote a story for Life magazine called Children of Poverty.
June Krunholz's new report on truancy in Education Next should curl some education reform toes:
I know I'm the last one to the party on this one but I just got around to seeing Waiting for Superman this weekend.
As an authorizer of two charter schools in Columbus, we've heard our fair share of stories about the district not being very cooperative with them (in the way of busing, facilities, etc.).
In today's Ohio Education Gadfly former Ohio lawmaker Jeff Jacobson and I share findings from our review of Ohio's school funding system.
The gravity of Ohio’s $6-8 billion dollar budget hole and its unavoidable impact on K-12 education is about to hit h
