What schools need

How about Halo 3 in the classroom?

Who's next?

One wonders: To laugh or to cry? Break down test-score data by the ethnicity of Asian students?

The big one

TO: [email protected] FROM: [email protected] SUBJECT: The Big One Roy! Guv-nor! How's it going? Eli driving you crazy yet?

What happens when everyone attends college

Charter schools in The Economist

Two articles about charter schools in this week's Economist are online here (Chicago) and here (New York).

Carey strikes back

Kevin Carey mercifully closes our debate, not by addressing ideas but by instead calling my specific impugning of unions "vague" and concluding that I suffer from an incurable anti-union ailment. (Alas, my doctor prescribed Zithromax, but it hasn't worked.)

Keep this bad idea in New York

John Merrow, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, explains that "public education lives in an upside-down universe where student out

Grading writing

From The Tallahassee Democrat: "According to the Florida Department of Education, more students statewide are writing at or above grade level." (The results are here.)

Double standard?

Backed against the wall by recent labor controversies, the United Federation of Teachers has launched a counter-offensive:

Jay sets 'em straight

Most ed reformers are drawn to their calling by one, or sometimes both, of two considerations: civil rights and economics. The first concern addresses the achievement gap between mostly white, upper-class students and their mostly minority, low-income peers. That this gap exists--and that it's shameful and unacceptable--is undeniable.

Casting spells for universal proficiency

Cola wars

Over at the Cato blog , Andrew Coulson reports that New Jersey lawmakers have taken a step toward approving a tax-credit scholarship program, muc

Not playing favorites

Amidst criticism over her principal firings, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has dismissed the principal of the school that her own kids attend.

Friday happy-hour fodder

The Center for Education Reform released an analysis of 2006 charter school funding , claiming that charters receive 39 percent less funding than district schools, on average. That's a huge, unfair difference, if it's true.

Black principal makes Hispanic students eat on floor

New Jersey education officials have admitted that an African-American vice principal inappropriately punished 15 Hispanic elementary students in Camden.

McCain's education team