No more bubble boys
Human-robot interaction may have been occurring a long time ago, but until now we've seen few practical uses for robotics in education.
Quality redoubts
At Editorial Projects in Education, we were starting to wonder whether the reception to the latest edition of our Quality Counts report and its Chance-for-Success Index had been a bit too positive.
Shame on the blame game
Teachers unions have lately taken a pummeling in the war of ideas (see here, for example) and yearn for some defending. Diane Ravitch provides it in this impassioned article from the AFT's flagship publication.
Desperate measures in Denver
Reporter Katherine Boo's recent piece in the New Yorker about education reform in Denver shows why good intentions, ideas, and actions are often slow to solve the problems of blighted schools.
Mr. Fix-It
Michael J. PetrilliThough it's not the fundamental rethinking of No Child Left Behind that we would have preferred, the President's reauthorization proposal represents a pretty decent repair attempt.
Work it
This ain't your daddy's shop class. The Boston Globe reports that almost 50 percent of Bay State vocational ed students "now enroll in a two- or four-year college after graduation, more than double the rate in 1990." Not only are voc ed programs helping keep at-risk students from dropping out, but they're pushing some on into higher education, too.