A USA Today newspaper story featuring poor air quality around some American schools, including one near Cincinnati, was superficial, according to the Ohio EPA, which said the article was the result of a snapshot and not rigorous testing.
Good news for the harried education researcher: the Department of Education has released new regulations on the notoriously punctilious Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The law, which was enacted in 1
Columbus has joined New York, Washington, Chicago, Indianapolis, New Orleans, and other education-minded cities in building a high-quality new-schools sector. To date, however, the Columbus City Schools has not driven this effort. It has, in fact, dragged it down. This should change.
Ohio Senate President Bill Harris believes Gov. Ted Strickland has generated high expectations on education, especially when it comes to the issue of school funding.
The clock is winding down on the 127th General Assembly's lame-duck session, although lawmakers continue to introduce new bills. Such late entries rarely become law and are more often than not attempts by legislators to appease interest groups or make a political statement. Such seems to be the case with this week's introduction of House Bill 654 by Rep.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Capital City office is now located at 37 W. Broad Street, Suite 400, in downtown Columbus. You can still reach us by phone at 614-223-1580 or visit us online at www.edexcellence.net.
Like a comet, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study comes around every four years to offer insights about America's progress (or lack thereof) in these two critical domains.
We still think Arne Duncan is the likely pick for education secretary, but what if, for whatever reason (say, the
The Department of Education released its long-anticipated undated FERPA regulations yesterday, to be analyzed by the Data Quality Campaign in the coming weeks (and covered by the Wall Street Journal here.).
Mike was on the air again yesterday! NPR's All Things Considered interviewed him for a story on the Trends in??International Mathematics and Science Study results.
The 2007 results of the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study are to be released officially this morning (and I haven't managed to get my hands on a copy, darn it!), but some of the news is already starting to leak out:
The Trends in??International Mathematics and Science Study results are out. Here's Fordham's official take:
Arne Duncan still dominates the field in our pick-the-next-education-secretary poll. Our ten Washington insiders are sticking with the likely nominee, but some voters are looking for the unexpected choice. If not the basketball extraordinaire from Chicago, who might it be?
From guest blogger Diane Ravitch, a Fordham board member and research professor at NYU:
She's been in DC but a few weeks and already the pull of New York is calling her home--as a New York State Senator?
The news media is clearly anticipating the announcement of an education secretary pick soon, because the k-12 issue hasn't gotten this much attention since George Bush and Ted Kennedy teamed up to pass the No Child Left Behind Act.
I've been quite transparent about my interest in seeing the education secretary job filled by a sitting or former governor.
Perhaps the news that yet another governor has taken herself out of contention led our Washington Insiders to put even more of their chips on Chicago superintendent Arne Duncan in the race for the ed
Jay Greene takes the measure of the auto industry's bailout bill in Congress and finds it wanting: It's now becoming clear that rather than moving K-12 public education to look more like a competitive market, we are moving the competitive market to look more like K-12 public education.
I'm not a teacher but Ashley Heard is. She was whipped into action (translation: letter to the editor of WaPo) this weekend after hearing about a shooting at Anacostia Senior High School. That said, don't listen to me, listen to her:
As many Americans face increasingly tight financial times--and some even unemployment--I found this story by Yoav Gonen
Apparently there's a book being released next year about giftedness and EducationNews.org
Here at Fordham, the staff assistant is the glue that holds the place together.
David Brooks has been weighing in on the education secretary debate for a few weeks now. Today's??latest installment, however, I think was his best.
