Jim Hunt says he doesn't want ed sec job
Michael J. PetrilliSo reports the Associated Press. Will our Washington Insiders believe him?
Charters ahead of traditional public schools in educating poor students
The Los Angeles Times reports that several charter schools in California are outperforming traditional public schools in the state when it comes to serving children in poverty.
Reader contest: Name the next secretary of education!
(Due to technical difficulties, we're giving everyone another chance to enter the name-the-next-education-secretary contest. If you already entered, please enter again).
Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools
Over the past quarter century, Ohio-following national trends-has added an average of $760 million per year to K-12 education. In no year has a funding increase been less than $376 million (see here).
A vote for Joel Klein
Eric OsbergColumnist Richard Cohen caught my eye today by endorsing Al Gore for secretary of state, but much of his column is spent suggesting Joel Klein for secretary of education:
Father Coughlin, Huey Long, and me?
Michael J. PetrilliToday we live in a different country than we did even 10 days ago. Back then we were partaken with partisanship and infected with invectiveness.
Arne Duncan, Jim Hunt break away from the pack
Michael J. PetrilliIt's Day Two of Fordham's pick-the-next-secretary-of-education daily tracking poll (
The Obama girls... and Miley?
Stafford PalmieriThe mom-in-chief better put her foot down about this .
And the speculation begins anew
Stafford Palmieri"Michelle Obama visits Washington private schools "
Union official says Obama owes unions
Michael J. PetrilliResponding to Checker's and my argument that the NEA and AFT were not essential to Obama's sweeping victory,
Ravitch to Obama: Start the withdrawal right away
Michael J. PetrilliNot on Iraq, but on No Child Left Behind .
Please please, pretty please, pick Georgetown Day!
Michael J. PetrilliThis Jay Mathews article and this Valerie Strauss post both indicate that the Georgetown Day School is the leading contender for the
A few good pointers for Obama
Stafford PalmieriMike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP and current KIPP superintendent in Houston, gives Obama a few words of advice in the Houston Chronicle . Obama should:
Diane Ravitch for Secretary of Education?
Eric OsbergPerhaps David Brooks wants to get in on Mike's parlor game, guessing the next Secretary. From David's column today, about his dream Obama administration:
The Obama puppy
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Lord knows the Obama girls deserve a puppy, maybe a whole litter, as their reward for enduring the miseries of
Getcha some 'Fly
Stafford PalmieriIt's here and it's hot. Leading off this week is Ascend Learning President and Ed Sector Senior Fellow??Steven Wilson. What's he musing over?
Mike's "Loose Lips"
DC media speculation has begun in earnest regarding where Sasha and Malia will attend school and Mike is getting in on the action, recently quoted in DC City Paper's Loose Lips blog .
We hear Judith Winston's been tapped to lead Obama education transition team
We heard from a reliable little bird that Judith Winston, the Department of Education's former General Counsel and Under Secretary under Clinton, has been tapped to lead Obama's education transition team. Ms.
Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.Steven Glazerman, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Eric Isenberg, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, and Edward BrittonMathematica Policy ResearchOctober 2008
A Commitment to Quality: National Charter School Policy Forum Report
U.S. Department of EducationOffice of Innovation and ImprovementOctober 2008
Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors
Andrew J. RotherhamPhilanthropy RoundtableSeptember 2008
Perturbing progress
It feels as though every few weeks another disturbing development limps out of the sink of inefficiency and poor decisions that is the Wake County (NC) Public Schools. The topic of today's episode?
Sleepless in New York
The city that never sleeps has once again borne out this moniker. Who's reaching for the Ambien? Parents. At fault is a salmagundi of complaints about the City's year-old entrance policy for its gifted programs.
Game day
Pity the school-loving geek in Clarke County, Ga. In a classic case of adults setting a Good Example, the school district cancelled classes last Friday for the Florida-Georgia football game, anticipating empty classrooms.
Grading glee
Washington election junkies surely aren't the only ones going through withdrawal as the political season comes to a close, but at least parents in the D.C. area have an outlet for their obsessive-compulsive nature.