Not long after the 2008 election, Mike Petrilli and I penned an ?open letter? to the new powers that be in Washington, suggesting an approach to ESEA/NCLB reauthorization that we termed ?reform realism.?
Buon giorno, Fordhamites. Waiting for Friday? Just make sure not to fall asleep on the job.
Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students?
The Columbus City School District, Ohio's largest, is being targeted by an anti-discrimination group?among twelve districts nationwide?for allegedly not
State budgets are racing toward a budget cliff that is expected to be a cumulative $140 billion in fiscal year 2012.
?It's long been said that the new reformers deeply underestimate the complexity of the challenge facing educators. A mayor with near total control of the schools, importing a magazine publisher, with no significant previous exposure to public education, to run the largest school system in the country is a good way to bolster that critique.'' *
With the votes finally counted almost everywhere, the fancies of education policy wonks turn to ESEA/NCLB, long overdue for reauthorization and the subject of many aches, pains, and kvetches. Will the new Congress finally tackle this problem in 2011? Can it work with the Administration? For that matter, can it work with itself? The President murmurs about bipartisanship in education.
That's my quick read of the report released today by National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The only specific recommendations related to k-12 education are to eliminate the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools and to offload the Department of Defense schools on local districts.
Education Next, where I'm an executive editor, just published a powerful new study by Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann. It finds that the United States trails thirty other countries in the percentage of students scoring at an advanced level on the PISA math exam.
It's the title of Frederick M. Hess's forthcoming book, which will be released next week (Monday, methinks).
For eight years, Joel Klein has led the New York City public schools. In a new New York Times interview, he reflects on that period and on his decision to move forward to new challenges. Q: Was it a hard decision [to leave]?
It may be happening in the U.K. As James Noble-Rogers writes in The Independent:
The Los Angeles Board of Education, in a unanimous vote, has finalized a contract with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center, which will, the Los Angeles Times reports, ?analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test score
It's no secret that being a teacher can be tough enough without worrying about whether you'll end up in the hospital af
Lost in the dust stirred up by Joel Klein's resignation the other day was a historic announcement that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York was going to close thirty-two schools in the city.?That represents some 17 percent of its 185 schools and affe
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?Even if you are doing the right things, if you don't engage with people in your communities, you will spend your time fighting. How many shoes can you step on?? * Pedro Noguera, Professor, New York University
?To judge by the reaction in the edu-blogosphere, any joy engendered by the announcement of [Joel Klein's] resignation was quickly extinguished when the identity of his successor became known? Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, our October 26 event?Cost-Cutting Strategies and Opportunities for Schools and Districts?will air on C-Span's Book TV on
We wanted to share some highlights from our November 10 event ? School Leadership Matters?which we co-hosted with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress.
Review: Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities
How to get better leaders for America's schools
Step 1: Collect data; Step 2: Do something with it
