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Beware: Dangerous Surf
Today, Secretary Duncan is giving a speech about the federal role in education (check out Jamie's post about the speech??
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Beware Trojan Horses too
Though I wasn't crazy about Secretary Duncan's speech today about federalism, his recent comments to the AP about Race to the Top applications were quite encouraging. In this AEI report, I warned about "Trojan Horse" proposals.
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Rally killer!
If you ask me, the Fordham team has had a shockingly fecund and entertaining blogging week. Videos, interviews, pictures of wooden horses, charts, graphs, and more...not to mention some analysis of education stuff! I figured the best way to end this exciting week would be to point you to a law journal article! Smokin' hot!
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Duncan gets schooled, Colbert learns how to cash in on ed reform
Arne Duncan seems to be everywhere lately - even popping up last week on the Colbert Report.
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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
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Common Core Standards: States need more than talking points
I'm in Denver for the annual PIE-Net conference and had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the Common Standards effort with Mike Cohen, David Coleman, and
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Today's Quotable and Notable
Quotable: "K-12 education has come under pressure that it has not seen in decades. The only bright note is the money provided under the ARRA." -Arturo Perez, fiscal analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures
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Questions for Alex Johnston, New Haven's newest school board member
Alex Johnston, CEO of ConnCAN an education reform organization in Connecticut, was recently appoin
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Morning news
ED official (rightly) lectures Maine on lack of charter law Russo on yesterday's??NAEP coverage
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The hits keep on coming
More evidence that the education components of the ARRA have been about jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Excellent i3 critique
The Council on American Private Education (CAPE) has submitted superb public comments on the i3 fund.
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New Haven revolution?
Very big news out of New Haven, CT, though it's a story likely to be completely overlooked.
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Alt. routes to teaching....
This NY Times article highlights some folks who took alternative routes to become teachers, leaving their primary careers or retirement to complete fast-track programs into the classroom. One of programs mentioned is the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE).
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Today's Quotable and Notable
Quotable: "Everybody's using the [budget] numbers now to their own benefit, so they can blame somebody else for these teacher firings...My job is to make sure the city balances its budget. You can just blame Jack Evans." -D.C. Council member Jack ??Evans (D-Ward 2)
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Tweeting from PIE-NET conference in Denver
We're tweeting from the Partners in Education Network (PIE-NET) conference in Denver today. Follow our Twitter feed @educationgadfly or the conference hashtag #PIE09.
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The one winner in today's NAEP release: Michelle Rhee
There's not much good news in today's National Assessment of Educational Progress results for mathematics. As Checker told the New York Times:
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Stern on Catholic schools
Sol Stern turns in an interesting post about the recent Time Magazine article on Catholic schools, providing some??very good examples from the Big Apple.
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It was twenty years ago...
"I hope that this chapter has explained how a liberal Democratic legislator could conclude that choice, which in America is often associated with the political right, is essential to reform of education. In recent years, my party has suffered from a tendency to defend past ways of doing things."
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Lawmaker seeks improvements to school rating system
A bill sponsored by State Senator Gary Cates (R- Butler County) would lessen the blow to otherwise high-performing districts that fail to make adequate academic progress with a few subgroups of students.
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Selling our schools
Republican George Allen and Democrat Paul Goldman (Virginians both) have teamed up to write an interesting piece in the New York Time s urging Congress to modify certain tax credit rules so that they include school renovations.
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Ed Week on fire, charters in Maine, and more
Excellent Ed Week articles on school boards and governors and education and use of ARRA funds
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Fordham on School Governance
Checker, Terry, and Fordham board member David Driscoll offer up their opinions on school governance at the state and local levels over at Education Week
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The difficulty of attaining education equality
Checker writes on EducationNext's blog today about the inability of Title I and various versions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to bring about achievement gains for
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Fordham's latest report in the news
If you missed last week's coverage of our new report on national education standards, check out this Washington Post article from today.
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Today's quotable and notable
Quotable: "It's very exciting.?? This is the first accountability system for school meals in the history of the school system." -Jonathan Stein of Community Legal Services in Philadelphia
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Stars by Which to Navigate? Scanning National and International Education Standards in 2009
Expert reviewers appraise the Common Core drafts -- which outline college and career readiness standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and in math -- and also evaluate the reading/writing and math frameworks that undergird the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA). How strong are these well-known models?
