Checker in NY Post
Checker has an op-ed in today's NY Post?it's entitled, Senseless ?certificate,' silly hurdle for schools boss. In it, he criticizes the NY state law requiring that school-system heads possess a ?superintendent's certificate.?
Checker has an op-ed in today's NY Post?it's entitled, Senseless ?certificate,' silly hurdle for schools boss. In it, he criticizes the NY state law requiring that school-system heads possess a ?superintendent's certificate.?
Listen up, Ohio, especially all you Debbie Downers/Negative Nancys/Chicken Littles who have paid rapt attention to the ongoing public drama between outgoing Governor Strickland, and well ? Governor Strickland's office telephone.
While Mike was reporting that special education spending was ?heading toward one-third?
Today Rick Hess takes up the issue of special education spending on his blog, and gives Arne Duncan a fair bit of grief for delivering a
?Restructuring pay systems is like kicking a beehive.'' * Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Our prolific friend and colleague, AEI's Rick Hess, publishes more books than Borders stocks, and it would be exaggerated to say that every single one of them is a seminal contribution. But this one is genuinely important.
For several years, Fordham-Ohio has been pointing to red flags when it comes to the sustainability of the state teachers' retirement system (STRS).
In an odd twist on the issue of teacher privacy, Peter Murphy of the New York State Charter Schools Association is reporting that charters in New York won another?judicial victory last week when state's highest court rejected an attempt by the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to obtain payroll records showing the full names, titles, cor
I knew where I was as soon as the Ukranian cabbie pronounced the city a dictatorship and a teachers union leader told a room full of education reformers how good it was to be back in a town ?where you can use your hands when you talk?and swear.? ?Bulls?t!? someone shouted.
Britain's Education Secretary Michael Gove hasn't wasted any time since assuming his post in May. In these short six months, he's implemented a new ?free schools? initiative, which takes a page out of America's charter-school book by allowing groups (mostly charities or parents) to establish privately-run, publicly-funded schools. He's also sought to increase the number of ?academies?
In today's New York Times piece about the alarming achievement gap between black and white males, we hear this from Harvard scholar Ron Ferguson:
The two biggest spenders of recent years?in American education, namely Arne Duncan and Bill Gates, have come to the realization that a new day has dawned with respect to K-12 budgets.?
Want a ?private school feel? without paying the private school price? Why not try this fast-growing academy.
?Now, if you tell a teacher they're not doing a good job, it's like you're attacking the entire profession.? * Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
So, our Fordham-AEI volume, Stretching the School Dollar (Harvard Education Press, 2010) is having quite a good week.
Seven years after his death, Daniel Patrick Moynihan still makes the front page of the New York Times. The immediate context one day in mid-October was an article on the ?culture of poverty?
Review: The Nation's Report Card Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2009
I've got a new Education Next article out today, drawn from a book I've been working on (actually, more like working on selling!) that's for parents thinking of choosing a diverse public school for their kids.
If you want to know more about American Education Week, you can read up on its history here; and be sure to check out the accompanying
?Yes, there have been gains [for 12th grade], and they're significant, but overall, the results are still disappointing, especially in comparison to the big gains at 4th and 8th grade.'' [In regard to recently released 12th grade NAEP scores] *
The latest 12th grade National Assessment results (from 2009), released this morning, show small (but statistically significant) upticks over the past four years in both reading and math, both in ?scale scores? and in the percentages of young people deemed ?proficient.? In math, there's been a slow but persistent rise, of which these new results are part.
Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation (a reference to my generation, of course, not his), reviews in the November issue of Commentary a book by Robert Weissberg titled Bad Students, Not Bad Schools.
I walked out of a sixth-grade classroom yesterday with my head spinning, having watched a long discussion, lead by a veteran teacher, about why little Mary was upset and couldn't concentrate on her math. I was stunned, but not surprised; thanks to Mary's problem, none of the class was learning math!
Mike reported yesterday on Arne Duncan's ?red-hot?
As union membership can still be mandatory in twenty-eight states across the country, many union members have grown used to their dues money being taken straight from their paychecks.? But how many of them actually know what that money goes toward??
Longtime Flypaper readers might remember the old Reform-o-Meter, in which I would rate the Obama Administration's efforts on school reform, from ice-cold to red-hot.
?How do we go to a child, a student in the system and urge them to study and work hard and then say when the big jobs come up, if you don't go to the right cocktail party, you're not going to be considered.? * ?Patrick J. Sullivan, Member, Panel for Educational Policy, New York City Board of Education
We hear that the latest 12th grade National Assessment results (from 2009), being released tomorrow, will show small (but statistically significant) upticks over the past four years in both reading and math, both in ?scale scores? and in the percentages of young people deemed ?proficient.? In math, there's been a slow but persistent rise, of which these new results are part.
In a longish op-ed in the Telegram, John McTernan, a former political secretary to Tony Blair, writes that the UK's new, Tory secretary of state for education is not moving with sufficient vigor to save the nation's schools.