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Re: In Nomine Patris
Jay Greene, no lefty he, doesn't like the "paternalism" label either. He writes in an email:
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Day Six of the 2008 Education Olympics
Another day, another stirring rendition of the Finnish national anthem, another taste of utter defeat for the Americans. Where did the United States go wrong? Education Olympics Today tries to answer that question in an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. Today, the United States Education Olympics Committee's very own Deep Throat speaks out.
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Taiwan at risk
Not content to have already won four Education Olympics medals, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei according to the Chinese government) is calling for an overhaul of its secondary education system!
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Stern to Bloomberg: Read it or weep
The insatiable Sol Stern is back with another broadside on the Bloomberg/Klein administration. This time he takes the Gotham group to task for poor decisions and faulty leadership on reading.
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Day Five of the 2008 Education Olympics
Oh world, beware ye Finland's wrath! For fearless are their bosoms when A PISA test stands in their path In reading, science, or in math. Though sharpened are their Number Twos, Still sharper are their well-trained minds; Their foes they flummox and confuse As Ed Olympics gold accrues!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sweating the small stuff
Tomorrow, the Fordham Institute releases David Whitman's powerful new book,
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Measuring What Matters: The Effects of National Board Certification on Advancing 21st Century Teaching and Learning
Center for Teaching QualityJune 2008
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"For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time"
So believes Charles Murray. He explains his position in today's Wall Street Journal.
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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.
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Advisor-palooza
Education Week offers a pair of articles about the presidential campaigns' advisors this week.
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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.
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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.
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New Education Next survey: The nation's sour mood bleeds into education
Support for renewing No Child Left Behind with minimal changes is down from a year ago, from 57 percent to 50 percent, according to a brand new poll by Education Next (where I serve as executive editor).
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More on that Ed Next poll
From that Ed Next poll, this caught my eye: Race- and Income-based School Integration
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Day Three of the 2008 Education Olympics
We're three days in to the 2008 Education Olympics, and the Finns are firing on all cylinders. Also making some noise today are Estonia, Macao, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. The Americans, meanwhile, seem to be stuck in neutral. Follow the action at edolympics.net.
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Ed ideas down under
Australian Education Minister Julia Gillard is taking a lesson from the Big Apple. Having visited with the New York Chancellor of Schools Joel Klein, Gillard wants to start ranking Australia's schools on an A-F scale.