The state's new round of local report cards detailing last year's performance for Ohio public schools won't be made public until the last week of August, but district school officials are already scrambling to discredit the reports.
Far too often, educational policymakers have high demands and expectations for students but roll the dice on the skills and competence of instructors and school administrators. While we might like to believe that charter schools rarely, if ever, sin like this, the fact of the matter is that they falter the most, according to a new report by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
An Ohio State University sociology professor says the state's new value-added method for measuring student academic progress is an improvement to the accountability system but still doesn't go far enough.
The Wall Street Journal highlights how the NEA spends its members' money. Mike Antonucci has more.
Teacher quality in Texas is "inequitable" (poorly??constructed headline, Houston Chronicle).??Mike says: Who cares?
Kevin Carey's latest post is about affirmative action, and most of it is sensible. I'm unsure if what you'll read here are positions that Carey has previously espoused on this topic, and I'm not going to traipse off on some fishing expedition to find out.
Andrew Ferguson reviews in today's Wall Street Journal a book that goes behind the scenes at Harvard Business School--and seemingly reveals what one might expect to find behind the scenes at Harvard Business School.
From time to time, while digging up material for forthcoming Fordham reports, op-eds, or blog posts, I stumble upon an unrelated article that catches my interest and causes me to pause and read. Here's one such, written by Checker, entitled "An Open Letter to Lawrence H. Summers." It was published six years ago.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has announced a new job board on its website.
The Washington Post believes that D.C. officials resent charter schools, and it tells them: "Get over it."
Checker talks about his new book, Troublemaker, in a very chic-looking, new media-ish video interview.
I was reading the Washington Post on Saturday when I came across this little piece by Democratic strategist Carter Eskew about the presidential campaign and its suddenly negative to
Fordham is seeking a fall intern. What's it like to spend a semester with us? Our summer intern, Amy, has approved the following message, which I wrote:
No, it's not Kati Haycock or George Miller or even Margaret Spellings. It's Jo-Ann Armao, the education writer for the Washington Post editorial page.
Doesn't appear that student performance is a part of this new proposed pay structure by the teachers' union in Australia. A hundred indicators and not a one on how the students are performing?
This would-be second-career teacher in California says that proving "highly-qualified" status is a hoop-jumping endeavor: "The standards to which I'm being held here are no
Quite the fight going on right now in Miami, as the Miami-Dade school board weighs the fate of superintendent Rudy Crew.?? Some board members are trying to oust him with accusations of gross negligence, incompetence, and the like.??
The archaic agrarian school calendar is just one more reminder of how education is not keeping up with the times, argues Arthur Rothkopf.
The New York Times editors say to Congress: Don't??gut No Child Left Behind.
Here's some pessimistic reading for your Friday morning, from California teacher Kate Applebee. Her thesis:
So??commands Stanley Fish in this Policy Review article, which is based on his new book.
Mike's Gadfly editorial about teacher quality is attracting comments like ... like .... Oh, whatever,??it's Friday afternoon.
A few weeks ago we commented on L.A.'s less-than-tactful capital expansion plan . It's only getting worse.
The parents of San Francisco kindergarteners are fed up with a school choice system that doesn't really let them choose and they're speaking up.
