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More money does not equal more learning

Can Ohio afford Gov. Strickland's education reform plan?

Getting high school in sync with college is a good step

Talk about streamlining education. This month, some Ohio high school seniors will be earning not just high-school diplomas but also associate-college degrees. In Columbus, 19 seniors have already taken enough courses to earn associate degrees from DeVry Advantage Academy (see here).

WWOD?

Wall Street Journal columnist Bill McGurn wonders where Obama will come out on the question of D.C. vouchers for poor kids.

Detroit Public Schools: In a class by itself

Studies schmudies

Quick and the Ed writes about the recently released study of D.C. vouchers' effectiveness:

WWOD? Now we know.

The Wall Street Journal's Bill McGurn (and lots of others) wonders: What will Obama do on school choice? Now we know (via The Corner): TAPPER: You talked about the need to change the status quo in education today. OBAMA: Right.

Off her beat

Diane Roberts--author and NPR commentator--is a fine, fun writer. She's an eighth-generation Floridian, descended from some of the state's foundational families, and often insightful when commenting on occurrences odd and ostentatious, which are quite at home in Florida's past and present.

Deathbed conversion

The long-anticipated conversion of seven inner-city District of Columbia Catholic schools to charter schools is finally official .

A definite difference

Diane Ravitch, Fordham board member and peerless education commenter, writes:

On the other hand

I'm with the union on this one. Let my weekends go!

Educational defeatism, now a full-length book

Check out this Education Week article for a preview of Charles Murray's latest book,

The reality of rigor (more on the D.C. vouchers study)

Mike opened the door for my response to the Washington Opportunity Scholarship Program external evaluation, and I've just completed a fairly quick read of it.

Ed blog alert

Richard Whitmire--USA Today editorial writer, president of the National Education Writers Association, and father of two girls--has started a blog all about "why boys fail." Find it at www.whyboysfail.com.

More on the demise of clear, coherent writing

From Sunday's Washington Post.

Student accountability? Say, wha?

Education poobahs from everywhere will??go this week to??Orlando for a k-12 summit hosted by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and friends.

If it looks like a duck and it sounds like a duck...

Fordham has previously come out in favor of religious charter schools.

Another Catholic conversion

While Washington, D.C., works it way through a big debate about turning its inner-city Catholic schools into charters, a Catholic high school in Houston q

Still at risk

Nigeria's teachers' union threatens to unleash the "mother of all strikes." (Gadfly has previously commented, in op-art form,??on Nigeria's trials.)

Too-calm Coby

I've returned from a long weekend in New Hampshire to find my colleague Coby continuously questioning the concern that America's economic might will be damaged by her educational mediocrity.

D.C. vouchers work

That's what the headlines should say about this recently released study on Washington's federally-funded school scholarship program, though they probably won't.

Ballot sabotage

The Florida Teachers Union and friends sued the state on Friday to remove pro-voucher proposals from the November ballot, including a provision designed to restore, you guessed it, the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which was ruled unc

My teacher is an alien

Speaking of the economics-related back and forth between my colleagues here, a new rep

It's the economy, Mike

Mike thinks I'm overzealous in questioning the zeal with which ed reformers tie America's sub-par schools to forecasts of economic doom.

Hidden costs

Last week the Wall Street Journal editors defended D.C.'s voucher program after the Washington Post reported that its days could be numbered.

Remembering Tim Russert

So much has been written, said and televised regarding the late Timothy J. Russert that I can constructively add only this small bit to everyone's memories and biographies of this great guy.

Brooks on Obama and education

David Brooks writes today about the rift in left-leaning education circles. He rightly notes that one group, ostensibly bolder and broader, is actually, um,??regressive-er.

What a wonderful world this would be

In a New Criterion article, Alan Charles Kors, a professor of history, points out the misperceptions that many college faculty members harbor. If only their presumptions were true!

This is going to get big

John J.

Biting the hand that feeds

Naomi Schaefer Riley takes it to the college-entrance-tests-are-biased crowd--especially those within it who profit from the very tests they decry.

Searching for the Afro-centric content standard in the curriculum pacing guide...

Students and teachers are up in arms that Karen Salazar was fired??from a Los Angeles high school for "encouraging political activism among her students," namely by accusing the LAUSD of denying students "basic human rights" and "doing it on purpose in order to keep them subservient [a