The time has come
From Foreign Policy magazine: ?American Decline: This time it's real.??According to the authors:
From Foreign Policy magazine: ?American Decline: This time it's real.??According to the authors:
?Minnesota has lost its ?sense of urgency' to improve education and needs to take bolder steps to reduce the achievement gap between student groups and foster nontraditional pathways to teaching, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of business and community leaders Friday in Minneapolis.?
What doesn't have a week? Regardless, today begins National School Choice Week, and the libertarian folks over at Reason magazine have lots planned. One wonders, though, how worthwhile Reason's coverage will be.
The hot, of-the-moment education-related article, which ran in Thursday's New York Times, reports on a study from the journal Science that found testing to be the surest path to learning. The key, according to researchers, is struggle:
Checker is not wrong to be concerned about China (although I think his worries over the test scores of students in Shanghai are overb
?The current budget cuts that the Republican leadership is talking about making could turn out to be very damaging to making progress in education reform? * ?George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives Congressman- 7th District, California
The Times has some kind words for Randi Weingarten today?in an editorial called ?Reform and the Teachers' Unions.?