I knew as soon as we had finished saying the Pledge that it could be an interesting school Board meeting: there were only four members present, which (because we were a 7-member board) meant that we had to have unanimous consent to pass any resolution, including, as we would soon learn, convening a meeting.
There will be a lot of post-mortem's on Adrian Fenty's dramatic fall from grace in D.C.? This is a good one from the Post, which concludes that the mayor ?misread an electorate he was sure he knew better than anyone, ?
Now that Fenty's been ousted, the big question is Michelle Rhee: will she go?
?What we don't need is more scapegoating of public service workers and their benefits.'' -Matt O'Connor, Spokesman for the Connecticut State Employees Association
The people who run the Think Tank Review Project have a newish book out: <
Al Sharpton. New show. On TV. Sunday mornings. Talking education. Seriously. ?Liam Julian
Last year, for the first time, ?more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees,? writes Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post. ?Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education,?
Vincent Gray, candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., was asked by CNN's John King if he, Gray, were he to be elected, would retain Michelle Rhee as the city's schools chancellor. ?Well, we'll see,? said Gray.
Besides almost certainly forfeiting a Senate seat that the GOP could have?taken in November, Delaware's Republican primary voters yesterday made a colossal mistake when it comes to education policy. Mike Castle is, and for two decades has been, one of American education's wisest, sagest and bravest reformers.
Dayton Daily News ran two articles yesterday illustrating a frustrating dichotomy when it comes to charter school quality in Ohio, one lifting up the happy fact that eight of the top ten public schools in Dayton are charters and the
Each year, we analyze the academic performance of schools in Ohio’s Big 8 cities. We examine things like the number of kids in schools rated A, B, C, D, or F by the Ohio Department of Education, the number who attend schools that meet (or fail to) value-added gains, academic performance over t
Among Ohioans, Youngstown is known as much for its appallingly low academic achievement as it is for being part of the blighted “Steel Valley” that’s lost so many jobs in recent decades.
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Apparently if you’re a college professor with a tattoo there’s a good chance that you’ll be loved by your students. According to a recent psychological study – as featured on the NYTimes’ Freakonomics blog, students believe that pro
In November, voters in two tiny Hancock County communities will go to the polls and decide if they want to investigate the possibility of merging their equally small school districts.
With more than 300 charter schools serving nearly 100,000 children, Ohio is known for its significant school choice market. Two of its cities (Dayton and Youngstown) are in the top ten cities nationally in terms of charter-school market share.
Nice letter about the charter segregation issue from Robert Holland of the Heartland Institute. ?Peter Meyer
I'm not sure how many people still read Time magazine, but the venerable weekly seems to be doing better than Newsweek. (Disclosure: I once worked for Time.)
Sam Dillon's story entitled ?Racial Disparity in School Suspensions? in this morning's NY Times brings to mind the time that our elementary school went into lockdown when a rubber knife was discovered in a first-grader's lunch box.?
From banning hugs to allowing breakfast in class, new policies make me wonder: are these really the changes we need?
?I am convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game-changer in public education.? - Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
As if Asian countries (and Asian authoritarian island city-states) weren't already whooping the U.S. in all categories educational, now they'll have Yale. ?Liam Julian
?The president should have said something in support of Fenty? according to NPR commentator Juan Williams, who referred to Barack Obama's silence on Washington, D.C.'s mayoral Democratic Party primary race. D.C. Councilman Jim Graham believes that the president, had he given Adrian Fenty his public backing, ?could have won the election for Adrian.?
Sam Dillon's New York Times story from last Friday seems to have flown under the EduRadar.? And it shouldn't have.
The New York Times' Week in Review on Sunday followed up on its Science Times story from last Tuesday, ?Forget What You Know About Studying,?
?How can we steer a course back toward our founding principles in education? The first step is to send dollars and decision-making authority out of Washington and back to states, localities, and ultimately, parents.'' -Jennifer Marshall, Director, Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation
The forthcoming documentary Waiting for Superman is ?inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete,? according to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. She makes several fair points . . . and, of course, several trite ones.
