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Commentary
11.4.2009

Mom-and-pop edureform

The Parent Revolution in Los Angeles continues to bring home the bacon, having managed to put organized parents squarely in the center of local education politics.

Commentary
11.4.2009

Upwards, not outwards

Last week’s editorial “Remembering Ted Sizer” misidentified the outreach program at Harvard Graduate School of Education as "Outward Bound," a well-known outdoors program.

Commentary
11.3.2009

Turnaround conversation

National Journal's "education experts" are having a discussion about my Ed Next article on turnarounds and the Obama administration's fidelity to this strategy.

Commentary
11.2.2009

Today's Quotable and Notable

Quotable: "I don't see any other state that has thrown the brunt of its budget shortfall onto the laps of our students." - Celia Molina, Hawaii parent

Commentary
10.30.2009
Curriculum & Instruction

Flypaper readers debate Education Schools and MUCH more

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

A week ago, I posted this in response to Secretary Duncan's speech about education schools at Teachers College. Over the course of several days, there were 11 comments posted that, when printed out, clocked in at 20 pages (single spaced, mind you).

Commentary
10.30.2009

G-rated only, please

Stafford Palmieri

Just in time for Halloween, schools around the country sent letters home to parents about what constitutes an "appropriate" costume. Out are masks, fake weapons, and gory make up. In are innocuous food items (carrots! pumpkins!) and cute furry animals.

Commentary
10.30.2009

Today's Quotable and Notable

Quotable: "I'm talking about the law. Why bother to have a legislative body if the people in the executive branch do whatever they choose because they don't like the decision of the legislative body?" -D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D)

Commentary
10.29.2009

Only one piece of the puzzle

A new study on school closures in Chicago reports an unsurprising but important finding: the quality of the school a student attends after he/she is displaced by a closure is extremely important.

Commentary
10.29.2009

Illusion of proficiency continues to shed its veil

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

As Amy indicates, the latest findings from the just-released National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report contain few surprises, especially since we're well

Commentary
10.29.2009

Today's Quotable and Notable

Quotable: "There are places in America where if you really saw what was going on, as Americans, we would be totally embarrassed. It's Katrina happening without the floods....It's so ugly we have decided not to look at it." -Geoff Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone

Commentary
10.28.2009

Teaching the teachers

Having touted teacher quality as an important spoke of his reform wheel, it was only a matter of time before Education Secretary Arne Duncan took on the largest purveyor of teacher training: education schools.

Commentary
10.28.2009

The content of a great reformer

In this excellent biographical article in City Journal, Sol Stern takes a closer look at the life and works of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Father of the Core Knowledge movement (and foundation by the same name), Hirsch started as a scholar of English.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Remembering Ted Sizer

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Theodore R. (Ted) Sizer, who passed away last week after a long and valiant battle with cancer, was a towering figure in American education--and a wonderful guy.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Sweet dreams

Forget sleeping in class. Try sleeping on the way to class. At night! On a Sunday! Last weekend, sheriff’s deputies in St. Charles, Illinois, discovered a 5 year-old boy at his elementary school way past his bedtime. Seems the little guy had sleepwalked to school, managing to escape the house without waking his parents.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Education lifts election doldrums

After the pomp, circumstance, and hope we can believe in of 2008, you may have an election hangover. And if you don’t live in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, or Boston, you may not have even realized that next Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. But of four big races (and a few ballot initiatives) due next week, education is a common theme in all of them.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Law-abiding reform

Last week, you may have read about Rhode Island State Superintendent Deborah Gist’s move to abolish seniority bumping rights for teachers. But what you might not have seen was another move just as important: Raising cut scores for Rhode Island teacher candidates on the Praxis I exam.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Feds and ed revisted

I've written a couple times recently about the Department's lack of clarity about its view of the proper role for the feds in K-12 education.

Commentary
10.28.2009

Update on RTT docs

Per the below RTT minutiae, the Department offered more in its latest weekly update: The Department reviewed and responded to??comments from OMB on the final notices for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund and Race to the Top programs.

Commentary
10.27.2009

Big jobs in the Big Easy

New Schools for New Orleans (here) is seeking a Chief Operating Officer and Director of Development to help grow the organization and work toward its goal of achieving excellent public schools for all students in New Orleans.

Commentary
10.27.2009

Teacher quality the most important (in-school) factor

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Core Knowledge and Joanne Jacobs both picked up on a blog this week by Linda Perlstein, who says that Obama is “wrong” to suggest that teachers are the single most imp

Commentary
10.27.2009

The best of both worlds

The Ohio Department of Education recently spotlighted an innovative partnership between Dayton Public Schools and Sinclair Community College that has established a unique