Teaching Talent: A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education
Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wetzel (eds.)Harvard Education PressMarch 2010
Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wetzel (eds.)Harvard Education PressMarch 2010
Stephanie Saroki and Christopher LevenickPhilanthropy RoundtableDecember 2009
There’s a new show in town, and it’s called “Arne Get Your…27 Shotguns.” That’s reportedly what the Education Department is purchasing to replace old firearms used by its Inspector General. Well, well, well. This gives a whole new meaning to “bullet points.” Silver bullets, anyone? And Race to the Top finalists had better bring their armor.
Americans are richer than ever, yet no happier than in the early 1970s. So Richard Bok asserts in The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being. In this longish New Yorker piece, Elizabeth Kolbert reviews the latest research on being happy--and the news is anything but.
More right-sizing in the Midwest. Last week, at the urging of its superintendent, John Covington, the Kansas City (Missouri) school board made the gutsy decision to close nearly half its schools.
Detroit on the up-and-up? Its leaders have a plan to pick their schools up by their bootstraps--two plans in fact.
For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) “common” education standards to strengthen U.S. education.
15 months ago, we proposed dropping the supplemental educational services and public school choice programs from No Child Left Behind.
There are lots of very interesting and very exciting elements in the teacher section of Florida's RTT application. First, this is a startling admission:
In this report from several months ago, I predicted, with worry, that some state RTT applications would appear on the surface to be gung-ho reform, but when layers were peeled back, the state's commitment would come into question.
"Right now, we're just focusing on what's easy, what can be developed quickly, because it's going to take a lot of trial and error to find out what is the best practice for doing this." ??? Joy Smith, Chief Development Officer, Florida Virtual School