Best and worst in 2010: Get ye to the polls!
The Education Next polls are still open.? You get to choose from a list of key education events chosen by Hoover's Koret Task force.
The Education Next polls are still open.? You get to choose from a list of key education events chosen by Hoover's Koret Task force.
According to an Alabama Press-Register report, neither schools nor students nor even teachers were the big winners from the state's education stimulus dollars. That accolade goes to Alabama's inmates and its prison system. And it was all perfectly legal.
In what may be a perfect example of a hard case making for bad law, the Department of Justice, according to the Associated Press, is suing a suburban Chicago school district for not letting a Muslim middle school teacher make a pilgrimage to M
One-time NYC deputy schools chancellor Christopher Cerf has been appointed commissioner of education for New Jersey. Not a surprising choice, given Governor Chris Christie's determination ?to remake the Garden State's schools.
While Cathie Black spends a day working as a substitute teacher and opens a twitter account, students in Oregon get a
?She's shown in her experience in business that she can run a multibillion-dollar organization, that she can turn something around, so I don't think her lack of experience in education disqualifies her [Cathie Black].? * Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of D.C.'s public schools, told an audience at the Manhattan Institute on Wednesday that ?her appointment?[as D.C. schools chancellor]?three years ago was met with nearly identical opposition to that being faced by incoming New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black,?
Chris Cerf, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor, will be the new education commissioner of the state of New Jersey. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Jay Greene's kerfuffle with the New York Times' education reporter Sam Dillon is fascinating because Times reporters rarely engage their critics.
After months of inactivity on Capitol Hill, D.C. is humming today as the Omnibus Appropriations bill rushes toward completion. It's not a pretty picture to watch, particularly as the supposedly reform-friendly Obama Administration sells its soul in order to keep its beloved Race to the Top program alive. (OK, ?sells its soul?
Still stressed out about final exams? Worried that more college isn't a cure-all?
?You cannot be trusted to provide your child a nutritious meal because ultimately the government is smarter than you.'' * Julie Gunlock, Senior Fellow, Independent Women's Forum, on the Child Nutrition Bill
We call it ?Reform School: Lessons from Today's Leading Reformers.? We'll hear from Education Reformers in their own words. Our very first comes from Tony Bennett, the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction. Who would you like to hear from?? Comment below or send us a Tweet with #reformschool
The New York Times reported yesterday that, on Tuesday night, the school board of the Los Angeles Unified School District ?unanimously approved a plan . . . to allow the district to seek corporate sponsorships as a way to get money to the schools.?
United Teachers Los Angeles held a news conference yesterday, at which its brass proclaimed that they were not ?the villains of education.?
Julie Gunlock, a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum,* writes on NRO that the newly signed Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act will ?lead to a greater
Adding to Liam's Tough Time for Tenure post, I wanted to call attention to a few more details, per the Times' t
Gail Collins weighs in?on our bawling Speaker?elect in this morning's Times. She too noted the school connection during?the?60 Minutes story on John Boehner, pointing out that?
There's plenty of sobering news in Fordham's new report, Are Bad Schools Immortal? The Scarcity of Turnarounds and Shutdowns in Both Charter and District Sectors.
Politicians clearly revel in class warfare. Democrats?always rage at the well-to-do and try to present themselves as champions of the less prosperous. (See current goings-on in Congress regarding federal income and estate taxes.)
In case you missed it, Obama signed the Child Nutrition Bill into law on Monday?click here to see the ?before & after? school lunch menu.?
?I think we have schizophrenia in the U.S. that we believe all U.S. schools are lousy except the schools we send our kids to.? * Larry Cuban, Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University
?Until we start seeing assessments that ask kids to write research papers, ask them to solve unfamiliar problems, ask them to defend their ideas, ask them to engage with both fiction and nonfiction texts; until those kinds of assessments are our state assessments, all we're measuring are basic skills.'' *
In my other life (as a Hoover Institution fellow and chairman of the Koret Task Force on K-12 education), I've lately?had the pleasure of joining Bill Evers and other task force members in distilling the most important education events of the past year and sorting them into ?best? and ?worst? columns.
Last week the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, while speaking in front of?loads of legislators?at a public forum of the Public Policy Institute of California, said this: ?At every step of the way, when Los Angeles was coming together to effect real change in our public schools, UTL
During the Florida gubernatorial campaign, most voters were paying attention to then-candidate Rick Scott's past?as head of a hospital chain that paid $1.7 billion in fines in the largest Medicare fraud case in history. Now that Scott is the governor-elect, those voters (and?the press)?are turning their focus to the policy plans he released several months ago.
I am still recovering from last Sunday's 60 Minutes tear-jerker.
This may or may not be the answer to eternally bad schools, but a little parent revolution surely can't be any worse than any of the other attempts at getting poor kids a good educati
This study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that low-performing public schools—both charter and traditional district schools—are stubbornly resistant to significant change. After identifying more than 2,000 low-performing charter and district schools across ten states, analyst David Stuit tracked them from 2003-04 through 2008-09 to determine how many were turned around, shut down, or remained low-performing. Results were generally dismal. Seventy-two percent of the original low-performing charters remained in operation—and remained low-performing-five years later. So did 80 percent of district schools. Read on to learn more.