After gunning down two kittens on the property of the K-12 Indus school, just west of International Falls, Minnesota, Principal Wade Pilloud told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "I am not a cat hater." Maybe not, but he's certainly a common sense hater.
Paul E. BartonAmerican Federation of TeachersSeptember 2006
Tom LovelessBrown Center on Education PolicyThe Brookings InstitutionOctober 2006
"It's a sordid business, this divvying us up by race," quoth Chief Justice John Roberts last year. The Department of Education is finally implementing a 1997 OMB mandate that students should be allowed to identify themselves as multiracial.
Christopher B. SwansonEditorial Projects in Education Research CenterOctober 2006
Edited by Eric A. HanushekHoover Institution's Koret Task Force on Education2006
Last week, in "A dose of reality," Gadfly mistakenly wrote that a number of New Orleans charter schools were struggling. In fact, none of the fraught schools to which we referred were charters. Our mistake.
The first rule of combat is to avoid cross-fire. But the newly appointed Los Angeles superintendent, retired Navy Vice Admiral David L. Brewer III, already finds himself squarely in the middle of it.
After five months of negotiations, the Buffalo Board of Education voted 5-4 last week to base 10 percent of students' report-card grades on attendance. Thus, kids with five or more unexcused absences will receive zeros, meaning the highest grade they can then receive in any subject is a 90.
The twenty-third permutation of the MetLife teacher survey series, which annually compiles data on teacher attitudes across a range of topics, recently emerged and was mostly ignored.
Regarding last week's News and Analysis ("An apple from the teachers," 10-12): Typically, you make it sound like it's an "either/or" situation.
