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Gray on schools
Vincent Gray, the next mayor of the nation's capital, talks education with Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Build a better classroom
Slate wants to know: How would you design the 21st-century classroom? And on Monday, November 8th, the online magazine will host a panel discussion on the topic at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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Dump ED in '10
It's not just Rand Paul, who's running to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, who wants to abolish the federal Department of Education.
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Embrace the mess
There has been much talk on this?blog and elsewhere about the movie Waiting For ?Superman' and its promotion of the idea that we know ?what works? in education.
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Even ed profs think ed school accreditation is lacking
Last week, the two national accreditation bodies for teacher preparation programs?NCATE and TEAC?voted to standardize their accreditation processes and ultimately merge into a single organizati
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Core Knowledge v. Sir Ken
Pondiscio and Willingham team up to give?new You Tube education phenom ?Ken Robinson a?good going-over.? Don't miss. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Quotable & Notable
?What we teach in school should not be dependent on the political leanings of a governing body.? Rick Doll, Superintendent of Lawrence, Kansas school district
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Interview with Mike P.
Our Mike Petrilli talks to EducationNews.org about what's next for common education standards. Check out the interview?. ?Amy Fagan
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You know it's a bad idea
. . . when Crash is on the teacher-training syllabus. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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A Carey Murray slurry
Kevin Carey, Education Sector's policy director, regularly advertises that he has very little if any respect for Charles Murray, the political scientist who famously coauthored The Bell Curve in 1994.
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Education News Nuggets
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
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Cracking the code: ?Tough as nails?
Sure, it's selective, but this run-on-a-shoestring school for poor kids still gets the job done. ?Give me one good reason?okay, I'll take two or three?why this isn't it replicable and scalable?
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Ed profs back tenure reform, but not performance pay
Education professors are in step with some current reform initiatives targeted at improving teacher quality, but not others, according to our new survey of teacher educators.?
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Cuomo to Unions: Be Nice ? or Else!?
Though the headline had it that New York State gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo ?Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions,? what he actually tells the New York Times is much kinder, gentler.?
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Quotable & Notable
?Everybody who acts like we can tinker with the state monopoly on education and get radically better results is working to ensure that our present system survives to inflict its dysfunctional results on another generation of Americans who cannot afford its failures.''
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More: Charter autonomy in the RTTT world
Jason Brooks, research director at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, amplifies on the issues that his boss, Tom Carroll, raised with
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A metaphysical problem: Does RTTT undermine autonomy?
Tom Carroll continues to chew on the question of RTTT and charter school independence, amplifying his
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Not guilty, but here's $85,000
The National Education Association has just settled an eight-year-old lawsuit, filed against it in Washington State, which accused the union of illegally using money to ?support initiative campaigns.?
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No love
Charter schools ?were a punching bag? at a recent ?education forum? in Brooklyn. ?Charter schools are all about money,? said one parent in attendance. They are? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Talking with Gates
Paul Tough interviews Bill Gates for Parade magazine. ?Among the revelations: last year, while traveling for several months, Gates and his wife homeschooled their three school-age children.
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Education News Nuggets
I wonder if research on absenteeism in elementary school takes a factor like this one into account.?
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Free speech in the classroom? . . .
A recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati concluded that teachers' in-classroom curricular decisions are not protected by the First Amendment.?
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Ed profs: Give me your tired, your poor? and everyone else too.
Since improving low-performing, inner-city schools is arguably the chief education challenge presently facing policymakers and the nation, one might expect education school professors to emphasize teaching strategies as they relate to disadvantaged and struggling students. But as our?
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Kids? Are they part of this?
Rick Hess summons the ghosts of Bernie Madoff to illustrate the obscene? ?deal? that?
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Thus always to tyrants
This fall, fourth-graders throughout Virginia opened their history textbooks, Our Virginia: Past and Present, to the following passage on the Civil War:
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Quotable & Notable
?When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary.
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