Bad effects of big time sports
It's March Madness time, and not even Gadfly is immune to the pleasures of a couple of weeks of serious college basketball.
It's March Madness time, and not even Gadfly is immune to the pleasures of a couple of weeks of serious college basketball.
The push is on to open up the job of authorizing charter schools to more entities. (See Fordham's report on charter school authorizing, which advocated just such a move, at http://www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=67). So far, however, success is rare.
Kyle Stevens, Trafford Publishing2004
Larry Cuban, Teachers College PressJanuary 2003
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning and the Education Commission of the StatesFebruary 2004
Council for Basic Education March 2004
Education Secretary Rod Paige announced this week that the Department of Education will relax NCLB's "highly qualified teacher" requirements.
"It was a political hit that would make Tony Soprano blush." Just hours before the New York City Panel for Education Policy - successor to the Big Apple's school board - was to vote on Mayor Bloomberg's controversial plan to hold back third graders who failed the city's math and reading tests, the mayor axed two of his own hand-picked board members and orchestrated the firing of a third, all of
In this space, Michael Kirst recently provided a useful commentary comparing the time it took to implement the original Title I to the present controversies over implementing the No Child Left Behind act.
U.S. News & World Report has a fantastic special issue on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. One of the articles therein, "Unequal Education," is as fine a lay-of-the-land piece on education we've seen in many a year.