It wouldn't surprise me if appreciable, overarching??positive changes in most big-city school districts??occur??only if and when the demographics of??the??big cities in question naturally shift??(emphasis on the word naturally).??Certainly it would be interesting if someone could observe a??met
"Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes." Article here.
I've come to admire the anonymous edu-blogger Eduwonkette, what with her skillful use of Photoshop,
Long plagued by high dropout rates amongst Latino students, the Texas Education Agency has been ordered by the U.S.
The New York Times "Education Life" supplement asks that question of America's colleges and
Over here, over there, those "right-wing thinktank[s]" are always so spot on. How do they do it? From The Guardian:
When I wrote in the Education Gadfly a few weeks ago that "in times of budget crunch, school boards are tempted to consider extra-curriculars as, well, extras, frills even,
Does the??penchant of universities??for outsized emphasis??on production of new research create professors who shirk??one of their primary duties, namely??to teach undergraduates? I think so.
That's the impression I get from reading Karin Chenoweth's post about
If any district is thinking about setting up a career and technical education program for aspiring bike messengers, it should think again. The internet is apparently killing that occupation.
Want to be the best public school in the nation? Banish all those??who do not hold??at least a B average.
The slugfest between Checker, Diane Ravitch, and Randi Weingarten that ran in yesterday's Gadfly is the subject of an item in today's New York Sun.
That's what Mona Charen argues in this National Review Online piece,* using No Child Left Behind as Exhibit A.
Interesting to note that liberals Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias have both blogged recently about how socioeconomic and racial integration (the 2008 kind of integration, which seeks to overcome housing patterns; not the 1950s kind, which sought to overcome de jure separation of black and white) won't work.
Virtual classes may be morphing into entire virtual schools. What is lost and what is gained? How will virtual education change how we define the school experience?
Mike and Stafford discuss Miley Cyrus's new single, "Breakout," which disparages school-going.
The Washington Teachers' Union president tells it like it is (on The NewsHour): JOHN MERROW: Rhee is hoping to tie teacher pay to student achievement. Because teacher union membership is declining, Rhee may have an edge in negotiations.
The American Scholar notes, "Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers."
Some are pushing for the government to apply Title IX to science education. John Tierney wrote on Tuesday an article about this; he??offers more on his blog.
