It looks like Jim Hunt convinced our panel that he doesn't want to move to Washington, because he's back in a distant second place behind Chicago schools superintendent (and
Democrats for Education Reform is circulating a document with its wish list for the transition, including suggestions for key education jobs in the Obama Administration. I read this as a guide to the positions the folks listed below would like for themselves.
(Due to technical difficulties, we're giving everyone another chance to enter the name-the-next-education-secretary contest. If you already entered, please enter again).
Maybe it was Diane Ravitch's strong arguments, or perhaps our insiders
So reports the Associated Press. Will our Washington Insiders believe him?
The Los Angeles Times reports that several charter schools in California are outperforming traditional public schools in the state when it comes to serving children in poverty.
Over the past quarter century, Ohio-following national trends-has added an average of $760 million per year to K-12 education. In no year has a funding increase been less than $376 million (see here).
Columnist Richard Cohen caught my eye today by endorsing Al Gore for secretary of state, but much of his column is spent suggesting Joel Klein for secretary of education:
Today we live in a different country than we did even 10 days ago. Back then we were partaken with partisanship and infected with invectiveness.
It's Day Two of Fordham's pick-the-next-secretary-of-education daily tracking poll (
Responding to Checker's and my argument that the NEA and AFT were not essential to Obama's sweeping victory,
This Jay Mathews article and this Valerie Strauss post both indicate that the Georgetown Day School is the leading contender for the
Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP and current KIPP superintendent in Houston, gives Obama a few words of advice in the Houston Chronicle . Obama should:
Lord knows the Obama girls deserve a puppy, maybe a whole litter, as their reward for enduring the miseries of
Perhaps David Brooks wants to get in on Mike's parlor game, guessing the next Secretary. From David's column today, about his dream Obama administration:
DC media speculation has begun in earnest regarding where Sasha and Malia will attend school and Mike is getting in on the action, recently quoted in DC City Paper's Loose Lips blog .
We heard from a reliable little bird that Judith Winston, the Department of Education's former General Counsel and Under Secretary under Clinton, has been tapped to lead Obama's education transition team. Ms.
It's here and it's hot. Leading off this week is Ascend Learning President and Ed Sector Senior Fellow??Steven Wilson. What's he musing over?
It feels as though every few weeks another disturbing development limps out of the sink of inefficiency and poor decisions that is the Wake County (NC) Public Schools. The topic of today's episode?
The city that never sleeps has once again borne out this moniker. Who's reaching for the Ambien? Parents. At fault is a salmagundi of complaints about the City's year-old entrance policy for its gifted programs.
Steven Glazerman, Sarah Dolfin, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Eric Isenberg, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, and Edward BrittonMathematica Policy ResearchOctober 2008
U.S. Department of EducationOffice of Innovation and ImprovementOctober 2008
