Woe to the Maori pupil in Louisiana's St. John the Baptist Parish, the school board of which is embroiled in a bit of a tattoo controversy. It all began when Principal Patricia Triche banned (visible) tattoos in her high school, East St. John.
If there's one idea that unifies education analysts on the left, right, and center, it's the almost-religious belief that "improving teacher quality" is the surest way to boost student achievement. So it was music to many reformers' ears when, in 2007, McKinsey & Co.
If this sort of empty rhetoric is the most we can expect to hear about education for the rest of the campaign, it's time to declare the
I suppose we'd been warned, weeks ago, that the New York City Department of Education was watching us.
Check out his ednews.org interview here, and get a quick and helpful overview of his book,
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Kudos to New York City for launching a new pilot program to put Core Knowledge in ten city schools.
Kevin Carey treats Charles Murray unfairly. Carey, reviewing Murray's new book Real Education, writes:
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This report has a simple aim: to present results from international assessments so readers can judge for themselves how American students stack up globally. It shows how the U.S. has performed internationally in education in recent years, and it provides a glimpse of how education looks in several top-performing nations.
The website of one of the leading education trade journals, Gourmet magazine, has a feature on Tony Geraci, who's been charged with making Baltimore's school lunches more nourishing. Replacing sugary snacks and processed entrees will be whole grains and fresh fruits and veggies.
There's a lot for conservatives to dislike about the Bush Administration when it comes to education and the No Child Left Behind Act. But they should give the President some credit: he certainly split the Democratic Party on the issue.
CATO's Neil McCluskey, at the end of a long post arguing against my call for national standards and tests, says of the idea that "harsh reality just seems to??eclipse impossible dreams."
I'm working on a piece about the Bush education legacy, and I'm thinking about the notion that these years have seen a flourishing of reform efforts and leaders.
They waited until the last second, but the Americans finally won a medal in this year's games--and a gold, no less. Pandemonium ensued on the set of Education Olympics Today. Get the full story at edolympics.net.
Liam implicitly made a point in his post yesterday that's worth making explicit.
The Kauffman Foundation's Ben Wildavsky reviews the new Charles Murray book in today's Wall Street Jour
Just when New York says its cash incentives program for good grades isn't working (original article here), DC decides to go ahead
David Whitman writes about the coverage of his new book, Sweating the Small Stuff.
The Americans didn't win a medal on the penultimate day of the 2008 Education Olympics, leaving them just one more chance for a top-three finish. A special guest joins us, sort of, to size up their chances. Full coverage at edolympics.net.
With the most glorious moments of the 2008 Summer Olympics for Team USA now mostly behind us, commentators are finally turning their attention to the slightly less sexy, but surely more significant Education Olympics.
George Will, the nation's most widely syndicated columnist, weighs in today on
CATO's Neal McLuskey and Eduwonk Andy Rotherham are strange bedfellows, but they both have the same burning question on their minds: Why would national standards and tests be any better than state
This week's Gadfly is now available for all the world to see.
The evidence, as always, is mixed. Yesterday, the New York Times noted that the Big Apple's dollars-for-high-test-scores program hasn't worked.
