Reaching Capacity: A Blueprint for the State Role in Improving Low Performing Schools and Districts
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINCSpring 2005
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINCSpring 2005
William G. Howell, editor, Brookings PressJune 2005
Lawrence A. Uzzell, Cato Institute May 2005
Lisa Petrides and Thad Nodine, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management of EducationMay 2005
The spirit of Albert Shanker lives on, at least some days it does, at the union he once led. The latest edition of AFT's American Educator focuses on NCLB and concludes that accountability and standards are the right approach, but that substantial changes are required in the law - fix it, don't scrap it.
In this week's New Republic, Robert Gordon, a former Kerry education advisor, indicts his own party for straying from its egalitarian ideals and losing credibility on education policy. America's education system is obviously flawed, Gordon alleges, yet Democrats can only defend the failing status quo or attack any plans that don't involve more blank checks to the current system.
He's baaaaaack. Alan Bersin, deposed San Diego superintendent - a victim of a fierce union effort to undo reforms that were overturning settled ways of operating (see here) - has been named California Secretary of Education by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In the past, being valedictorian of one's high school class was mostly an opportunity to subject the assembled graduates and well-wishers to a string of mindless clich??s.
As the voucher flurry of 2005 winds down (see here and here for recent news), a few new developments have popped up.