Great to be a Florida Gator
The University of Florida ?cuts faculty and budgets? but manages to spend, spend, spend on the important things. ?Liam Julian
The University of Florida ?cuts faculty and budgets? but manages to spend, spend, spend on the important things. ?Liam Julian
The UK's least-productive primary schools will be converted into ?academies? (basically, charter schools), says the country's secretary of state for education, Michael Gove.
Standardized tests are biased against students who don't care. (If rough language offends you, don't click the link. And don't leave your house.) ?Liam Julian
The U.S. Department of Education just announced ?that a consortium of states led by Massachusetts will receive a $170 million federal grant to come up with a standardized testing system that would replace a patchwork of tests used by individual states.? ?Liam Julian
Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, writes in today's Wall Street Journal that she is optimistic about the future of K-12 education. ?Liam Julian
Yesterday, the Professional Staff Union of the Ohio Education Association went on strike.??
The questions change but one key finding stays the same
See Martin West's blog this morning at Education Next about the new research from Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (Columbia Business School) showing serious negative side effects fr
Not a lot of new ground is broken here, but Sam Dillon of the New York Times does a good job summarizing the issues ? including the hot-button topic?of naming names ? surrounding value-added assessments. ?Peter Meyer
Last Friday, we laid down a challenge of great intellectual might.? We asked you, our intrepid readers, to give a caption to the following picture:
?We've gotten out and told our members, if you don't get involved in this election, the alternative is much worse.? ?David A. Sanchez, President of the California Teachers Association
The commandant of the Rick Hess Straight Up blog was?deflated by what?he heard from Education Secretary Arne Duncan and the head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on ABC's Sunday-morning, political talk show, This W
New Jersey's former education commissioner, Bret Schundler, is now claiming that the state's governor ?defamed? him. ?I will not accept being defamed by the governor for something he knows I did not do,? Schundler wrote. ?Liam Julian
The critic Carlin Romano, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, wonders if ten years hence books will be largely vestigial:
Sharron Angle is a Nevadan running for the U.S. Senate. And according to the Think Progress blog, she is not in favor of funding public schools. ?Liam Julian
Since Ohio won Race to the Top money last week, districts that didn't sign on to the state's proposal (nearly half of them) have gone on the defensive about why they didn't accept the federal dollars.??
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has analyzed the academic performance of schools in Ohio’s Big 8 cities annually since 2003.
Education Next, where I'm an executive editor, is running an online poll to determine the top books of the past decade. (We're celebrating our tenth anniversary this coming winter.) Here are the 41 nominees in chronological order; did we leave anything important out?
Some great pictures of Arne's visit with the New York State United Teachers union people in Albany, courtesy of
Okay, so the Albany Times Union search engine is not perfect ? it did not turn up Rick Karlin's story on Arne Duncan's odd visit to one of the nation's premiere charter school cities?
Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of reason.com, wonders just how much money high-school sports actually cost and why no one seems willing, in our time of financial agony, to even consider cutting them. ?Liam Julian
The Chronicle of Higher Education shows how the college raters do their rating. ?Liam Julian
If you're looking for an answer to that question, this post is sure to disappoint. I'm really just wondering myself. Is there any evidence that reforms are more likely to take root if stakeholders are on board?
Attention all fashionistas: last night's red carpet at the Emmys has nothing on high fashion in the homeroom.
?No one is ever really singled out, neither good nor bad. The culture of the union is: Everyone is the same. You can't single out anyone for doing badly. So as a result, we don't point out the good either.'' ?Aldo Pinto, teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District's Gridley Street Elementary School