Mica Pollock, an "anthropologist of education," which I assume means that she excavates fossilized Australopithecus pencil boxes in the Olduvai Gorge, graciously comments about my last post (in which I quoted from an interview with her about her new book):
Word around Washington is that Congress is unlikely to finish its appropriations bills before the election and may choose to pass a yearlong "continuing resolution" for all of fiscal year 2009.
Education Week looks at how much money??each presidential candidate would??devote to schools.
Bobby Jindal may be wrong in trying to get religion back into science classrooms but at least he's playing by the (text)book. MSNBC reported yesterday that a science teacher in Mount Vernon, Ohio, burned crosses into the arms of his students.
Kudos to Education Secretary Margaret Spellings for taking to the pages of the Washington Post to defend DC's
The Cristo Rey network of schools (featured in our Catholic schools report) may benefit from a Cong
An article on NRO defends Louisiana's evolution muddle, a muddle that Governor Bobby Jindal has done much to bring about. The author writes:
Thusly titled was Dorothy Rabinowitz's??article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, a piece that looked at the race-based shenanigans that??affected one student at Purdue University.
Rereading this Washington Post article on Michelle Rhee's plan to woo teachers into ceding tenure and seniority privileges, I noticed a passage near the end that illuminates a different ed policy discussion:
Mike's post about the Obama girls sent me briefly to the website of the University of Chicago lab school
"Children as young as three should be reported for 'racism', Government-funded group claims"
Rod MacKinnon, former head of Bexley Grammar School (one of the U.K.'s most popular; it accepts approximately one pupil out of every nine who apply), took to the pages of the Telegraph yesterday to denounce a Labor government that views schools as tools for so
Two friends have an op-ed in today's Tallahassee Democrat calling for the establishment of a national public service academy, a "civilian West Point for our best and brightest public service-minded women and men."
Probably not, but since I missed last week's patriotismpalooza, I figure I have some catching up to do.
Highlights of Obama's speech to the NEA this weekend can be found here, amid quite a bit of applause (except for that pesky reference to teacher pay).
In Washington Post front-page news this morning, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA, has reported its freshman class of 2012 will be 45 percent Asian--and only 42 percent white. Crisis! (Really, though, front page news?
When New Jersey Commissioner of Education Lucille Davy called the severance package of the retiring Keansburg, N.J., Superintendent, "an absolutely outrageous, excessive, ridiculous package to pay anyone," she didn't really mean "anyone." "Anyone" does not include high level consultants and traders, CEOs and chairmen, or partners from big firms who routinely receive these sorts of financia
Kevin Carey tags my opinion about private colleges and prep schools, which he doesn't care for, with the word "indefensible." That I am hereby defending it proves Mr. Carey's label logically wrong, and I hope he will retract it.
The NEA is gathering in Washington--some "10,000 delegates and a few thousand other union members and guests," according to the Washington Post. The union is going to decide whether to offer its presidential endorsement to Barack Obama or to John McCain.
Nice, Christina. And then there are these problems. First, none of the arguments he points out is reductio ad absurdum (one must never forget the ad). Second,??if one was, what the heck??would be??so wrong??with that? Third, who's Leo Casey?
Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed this week a bill that lessens the emphasis of the state's high-stakes test, the FCAT.
The USDOE announced a couple days ago the six states approved for "differentiated accountability" plans (Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, and Ohio).
