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Tossed
If states and school districts based layoff decisions on merit, and not seniority, we wouldn't have to read about ridiculous situations like this.
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Post-post-partisan?
Senator Barack Obama appeared on Fox News Sunday and (among other things) spoke of his school reform bona fides. Chris Wallace asked him to name an issue where he'd be willing to buck the Democratic Party, and Obama pointed to education:
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Obama on charters
In his appearance yesterday on Fox News , Obama said that "I've been very clear about the fact... that we should be experimenting with charter schools." Actually, he hasn't been very clear about that fact, at least during this campaign.
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Dollar sense
While most Americans think per-pupil spending in public schools is lower than it really is, many new immigrants think Catholic school tuition is higher than it really is.
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Fordham Fellows change the world
Congrats to Davida Gatlin, a member of our first class of Fordham Fellows, whose
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The arts in K-12
Sunday's New York Times Magazine features an article on K-12 arts education. The piece sets out to refute Obama's evidently misleading claims that teaching the arts leads to improved student performance on standardized tests.
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And still more on ANAR
Checker writes about the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk in the Wall Street Journal and the Gadfly.
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Don't know much about education spending
The upcoming issue of Education Next (which Fordham sponsors) reveals that "Almost 96 percent of the public underestimate either per-pupil spending in their districts or teacher salaries in their states." In fact, they vastly underestimate these figures:
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Checker vs. Reverend Wright
Evidently Reverend Jeremiah Wright made some controversial statements about education and race last night. Over at The Corner, Byron York asks Checker for his take on the whole thing.
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A cause without rebels
At The Corner, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes that we can help save our inner cities by saving faith-based schools.
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