Overruling itself

The Gadfly is required reading for California's appellate court judges.

Relax with stats

Summer's days wane, and you tire of beach reading. Not of reading on the beach, certainly, but of the candy-colored-covered offerings that comprise the genre. No more tales of Upper East Side ne'er-do-wells! You lust for data, for statistics, for meaningful numbers. And you shall have them.

Risky un-risky business

When playground mats grow hot in the afternoon sun and torch the hands and feet of the children whose heads they're meant to cushion, what is to be done? Perhaps nothing, argues Common Good President Phillip K.

Measuring What Matters: The Effects of National Board Certification on Advancing 21st Century Teaching and Learning

Center for Teaching QualityJune 2008

Summertime, and the learning's easy

Summer is a glorious time, especially for students, who generally receive in June, July, and August a reprieve from schoolwork. For some high school pupils, though, the hotter months are a time to play academic catch-up.

Sweating the small stuff

Tomorrow, the Fordham Institute releases David Whitman's powerful new book,

Blowing hot air in the Windy City

Illinois State Senator James Meeks believes that the most efficacious way to eliminate funding disparities between Chicago's schools is to keep poor, black youngsters out of class. He wants such students in the city to boycott the first days of the 2008-2009 school year.

2008 ACT National and State Scores

ACTAugust 13, 2008

Day Four of the 2008 Education Olympics

Over at the water cube in Beijing, Michael Phelps won his fourth and fifth gold medals, for a record eleven total in his career.

Why teach evolution?

A New York Times op-ed answers that question.

"For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time"

So believes Charles Murray. He explains his position in today's Wall Street Journal.

Wow! We Made AYP!

Debbie Phelps's school didn't make AYP

I'm not just following the Education Olympics coverage; I'm also addicted to the regular Olympics as well. And during last night's broadcast I heard for the first time that Michael Phelps's mother is a middle school principal.

Advisor-palooza

Education Week offers a pair of articles about the presidential campaigns' advisors this week.

Turning schools into prisons?

Or so the post-graduate cram schools in South Korea have been accused. No make-up, no fraternizing with the opposite sex, no iPods, no fun--and classes and studying from 7:30 am to midnight.