If demographics are truly destiny then policymakers in the Midwest should take serious heed of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) latest edition of Knocking at the College Door.
Last week, Chancellor Eric Fingerhut released his 10-year strategic plan for Ohio's colleges and universities (see here). Over the next decade, Ohio will seek to transform its higher-education institutions to boost educational attainment across the board.
Ohio's tormented charter school scene periodically makes for compelling political drama. Lawsuits seek to break new legal ground, novel appeals sail toward the Internal Revenue Service, baffling legislation is enacted, and important characters engage in the charter debate--including politicians, big-money industrialists, union leaders, philanthropists, and editorial commentators.
In producing the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's report Fund the Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy, and Portability to Ohio School Finance (see here), we knew that critics would attack it as William Phillis did in a March 29 letter to The Columbus Dispatch.
Chad L. Aldis, executive director of School Choice Ohio, took exception to a recent Columbus Dispatch letter to the editor from William Phillis of the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
George Will explains that Clinton strategist Mark Penn was caught doing something sensible, surreptitiously. (In Penn's case, it was promoting free trade.)
So says fitness guru cum educational historian Richard Simmons in this Newsweek article: "The idea of NCLB was to make our children ac
A cursory glance at this article, innocuously titled "Bisbee casts net for new schools boss," reveals nothing revelatory.
Whether or not you agree with Richard Simmons, it's promising when anti-obesity initiatives work.
In The Independent, Steve Richards's column is titled: "If you want to understand politics, just examine the explosive education debate."
Regarding Mike's post, isn't it odd that a school embraces healthy food alternatives only after a two-year research study?
The latest National Review contains this article (subscription required) about the spanking debate (whether or not to spank one's children).
In his "Department of Human Behavior" column in today's Washington Post, Shankar Vedantam considers Nudge, a new book by University of Chicago professors Cass Sunstein and Richard Th
This is also precisely why I've been avoiding the gym. Seriously, though, this part of the article is interesting:
Over at City Journal, Stephen Malanga turns in a piece critical of Richard Florida's newest book, Who's Your City?
Well, only if you consider Italian, French lit, Latin lit, and computer science part of the core curriculum.
Hillary Clinton made news last night by appearing on Jay Leno and joking about coming under sniper fire in Burbank. But she also talked issues (this is Hillary Clinton after all) and mentioned that "I want to end the No Child Left Behind program because I don't think it's working the way it was promised." So how did Leno's audience react? Watch here (the action starts at about 6:11):
In an article from the March 31 issue of the New Yorker (the piece doesn't seem to be available online at the moment), Peter Hessler reports on one family's rise to (relative) affluence in the small Chinese village of Sancha:
Deciding such matters isn't easy. At the end of the day, though, California's court settlement is the right one.
When I first started reading this Slate piece by Alexander Russo ("Chicago School Days: Obama's lackluster record on education"), I felt my head spinning.
This moving Washington Post op-ed is by the father of Amy Wilkins (Education Trust's V.P.) and helps to explain Amy's (and Ed Trust's) bona fides in the civi
In the latest episode of Fordham Factor, Mike hypothesizes that the addition of a writing component to the SAT exam may be partly responsible for the recent rise in
