While I usually agree with Liam's witty pronouncements on the reasoning of others (and you must agree that Liam doesn't just express his opinion, he passes judgment with a swift blow of verbal acrobatics--Kevin Carey, I'm sure, would agree) I must take issue with
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3d_4taq75Q A week from today, America's team of finely-tuned physical specimens will start piling up medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
I found on Matt Yglesias's blog a link to this article,??which argues that housing vouchers have not??increased urban crime rates.
The Japanese score well on international exams, but perhap
Former Assistant Secretary of Education (and onetime colleague of mine) Susan Neuman
"What if ???improving teacher quality' isn't THE answer?," wonders Mike, who does not generally capitalize definite articles, so you know he's serious about THIS. In the newest Gadfly, just out, he writes:
With Rick Hess on vacation, sunning himself on some Chesapeake beach, we recruited Kevin Carey, he of the Quick and the Ed fame, to fill Rick's customary spot as Mike's podcast interlocutor. Sense must waft upon the air currents in Fordham's offices because Carey managed to make it through the recording session with nary a wholly preposterous remark escaping his lips.
Or perhaps it is. American Teen, a documentary about five high school seniors who live in Indiana, opens tomorrow. It picked up an award and a lot of buzz at the Sundance Film Festival, and the reviews have so far been pretty positive.
And Liam has been pushing for more of this. (That's not some weak attempt at a joke; he really has.)
I wasn't around in the salad days of American public schooling, but if The Wonder Years or Archie comics are any indication, most high schools used to offer auto shop classes. Not many do these days, unfortunately, which allows things like this to happen.
Is this the summer of school reform discontent, when the core assumptions of the past decade are reexamined? Are assumptions such as those that gave birth to the "Washington Consensus," which in turn created No Child Left Behind, being questioned anew? So it appears.
Emily Cohen, Kate Walsh, and RiShawn BiddleNational Center on Teacher QualityJuly 2008
Janet Hyde, Sara Lindberg, Marcia Linn, Amy Ellis, Caroline WilliamsNational Science FoundationJuly 2008
Andrew C. Zau and Julian R. BettsPublic Policy Institute of California2008
All hail ProComp!, we once were impelled, for it hath shown that teachers' unions and reformers can work together for good. Not so fast.
Mayoral control of schools is surely no silver bullet, but in the case of Baltimore, where Mayor Sheila Dixon is, according to the Baltimore Sun, "floating the idea" of taking over the schools, it would be a leaden musket ball.
Every four years, it seems, enterprising campaign staff put out talking points about how their candidate wants to "help" failing schools improve, not just batter them for their poor performance. And this year's rhetoric is no different.
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabbarok writes about females and math.
George Leef is no fan of David Brooks's column??in yesterday's New York Times (which we we
It wouldn't surprise me if appreciable, overarching??positive changes in most big-city school districts??occur??only if and when the demographics of??the??big cities in question naturally shift??(emphasis on the word naturally).??Certainly it would be interesting if someone could observe a??met
"Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes." Article here.
I've come to admire the anonymous edu-blogger Eduwonkette, what with her skillful use of Photoshop,
Long plagued by high dropout rates amongst Latino students, the Texas Education Agency has been ordered by the U.S.
