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Our fifteen minutes of fame is up
Flypaper is no longer the newest blog in the edu-neighborhood. We send our greetings to jaypgreene.com, a direct link to one of the most fertile minds in education reform.
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This is how we do it
People wonder: How did Flypaper emerge? What evil genius spawned it? Coby answers the questions.
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Buster the Bunny is back...off Broadway
Do you remember the Postcards from Buster controversy of 2005?
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Does "Big George" Miller hate the environment?
Or is there another reason his House Education and Labor Committee cancelled an Earth Day event on environmental education scheduled for today?* * I know, the answer is surely yes.
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Graduation or bust
States are forced to decide whether graduation confers on those who achieve it validation of knowledge or participation. If a state decides the latter, its diplomas will mean nothing to employers, who require knowledgeable workforces rather than just compliant ones.
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The (Catholic) good news
Much??recent reporting about the state of k-12 Catholic schools has??offered dreary conclusions. Here's a bit of good news.
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Praise for practicing what you preach
Kudos to Bill Nye the Science Guy--perhaps the nation's best-known and most effective science teacher--for putting his green lessons into action.
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Tunnel vision
You gotta give it to purebred libertarians, they never let their vision of how the world ought to work be distorted by any realities about how it actually works. Nowhwere is this clearer than in K-12 education, where the CATO crowd, indistinguishable nowadays from the "separation of school and state crowd," basically doesn't believe in any form of public education.
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Another argument linking income inequality to education
Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw makes the case in Sunday's New York Times that the technological progress of the last few decades has eclipsed the country's pace of educational advancement, thus driving up wages for skilled workers relative to the unskilled.
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Million-dollar blocks
At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen highlights the following passage from Peter Moskos's Cop in the Hood: My Year Spent Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
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Praying for a productive summit
I'm looking forward to Thursday's White House "summit" on inner-city kids and faith-based schools, both because it's a really important issue and because a number of panelists (and at least one moderator) are involved with the promising projects and programs recently profiled in Fordham's