This week, Mike and Rick chat about Britain; Washington, D.C.; and the president's new budget. We introduce a new segment: Jeff Kuhner's Education Outrage (he's mad!), and Education News of the Weird is hooked on phonics. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Like the book itself, our launch event for Rod Paige’s new work, The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time, is going like hotcakes.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about Catholics, Swiss cheese, and teachers. We've got an interview with Kate Walsh, who tells us why Congress is all screwed up, and Education News of the Weird is carb-free. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
This week, Mike and Rick take bets on whether Crist will sign the pending FL teacher evaluation legislation, debate the merits of the newly proposed D.C. teacher contract, and decide holding prom on a weeknight is the death of fun. Then Amber confirms that teacher turnover might not have the negative effects on student achievement we assume, and Rate that Reform de-friends you on Facebook.
Scott Brown’s remarkable victory in Tuesday’s special election has turned American politics upside-down, and is already reshaping debates around health care, energy, and spending. But might it also foreshadow a major shift on federal education reform?
You won’t want to miss this discussion. On May 5 from 3:30 to 5 pm, Paul Hill and Paul Peterson will consider the history and future of school choice, a topic both of them take up in their two new respective books. Richard Kahlenberg (The Century Foundation) and Bill Tucker (Education Sector) discuss, while Fordham’s Mike Petrilli will moderate.
Some, if not most, Ohio school districts believe that public charter schools are draining funds from their coffers, but it may be the other way around.
The International Union of Gadflies has noticed--and not, it must be noted, without significant disappointment--that you are well behind on payment of your frequent gadflier dues. If you wish to continue annoying, skewering, nitpicking, and suchlike, you'd better cough up the dough.
This week, we welcome guest co-host Howie Schaffer to the show. He and Mike debate the lessons of Columbine, implications of the long-drawn-out-but-perhaps-heading-towards-resolution Flores v. Horne Supreme Court case, and NGA and CCSSO's joint statement in support of national standards.
Are you in high school? Do you have strong opinions? Have you ever daydreamed about being the U.S. President? If so, you could win $1000 by answering this question: "You have just been elected the President of the United States.
In a tough job market, people with doctorates in other disciplines are seeking employment in K-12 education, trading the high-wire uncertainties of university teaching for the stability of public school tenure. While their numbers are still small - about 1.7 percent of teachers held doctorates in subjects other than education as of 1996 - they are believed to be growing.
This week, Mike and Rick wonder why Texans don't like money, why Russian schools are resegregating, and how long before 02138 goes under. We've got an interview with a principal who paddles his students, and News of the Weird is plain inappropriate. There are no Mark Foley jokes in this 20-minute podcast.
This week, Mike and Rick wonder why Texans don't like money, why Russian schools are resegregating, and how long before 02138 goes under. We've got an interview with a principal who paddles his students, and News of the Weird is plain inappropriate. There are no Mark Foley jokes in this 20-minute podcast.
The Philanthropy Roundtable, a national association of individual donors, foundations, donor-advised funds, and other grant makers, is seeking highly qualified individuals to serve as chief operating officer/chief financial officer and as director of K-12 education programs.
Fifteen-year-old Gaurav Rajav will not be receiving an Xbox 360 video game console this month. That's because the high school student, who hoped to recite 10,790 digits of Pi, and whose parents promised him the Xbox if he met that goal, could muster only enough intellectual stamina to correctly recite 8,784 numbers.
Education Pioneers seeks a dynamic Program Director to lead the implementation of the DC Metro Area Fellows Program.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is hosting the 8th Annual National Charter Schools Conference June 22nd through 25th, 2008, in New Orleans. NAPCS seeks presenters to share and discuss strengthening public charter schools. The deadline to submit proposals is October 17, 2007.
It's a Mike and Rick reunion, during which, amid much catching up, they discuss the tweaking of mayoral control in New York City, the slashing of school busing in some districts (figuratively, not literally), and the changes to Rhode Island's teacher evaluation systems.
The SEED Foundation needs a top-notch individual to head their new Maryland school, opening in fall 2008. Interested? All the information you need is available here.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about the election, the economy, and algebra. Amber tells us what it would take to get mid-career professionals into the classroom and Rate that Reform calls the police! Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
With Mike and Rick playing hooky, Andy and Stafford stage a coup of the podcast. They discuss Obama's solidarity speech to the NAACP, the end of privately-paid-for teacher aides in New York City, and a stimulus funding snafu that's left Arizona $250 million in the red. With Amber on vacation, we then skip to Mickey's Rate that Mascot and the reemergence of the summertime Gentleman's C.
Join us on June 4 from 3 to 4:30 pm as we celebrate the release of Checker Finn's new book, Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut.
Our critical look at Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut will take place on June 4 from 3 to 4:30 pm. Better still, the first seventy guests to show up that afternoon will receive complimentary copies of this acclaimed but contentious little tome.
To learn more about the Fordham prizes, or about this year's winners, please click here.Winner of the 2005 Prize for Distinguished ScholarshipTERRY MOE-GODFATHER OF SCHOOL CHOICE
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers seeks a vice president of external affairs. The position is based in Chicago; all the information you need is here.
The Springfield Association of Classroom Teachers is in an uproar over the "Principal for a Day" program at Walker Elementary.
Barbara Van Dyke's ninth grade classroom in Marblehead is a child-centered haven where everyone is steadfastly respected, repeatedly affirmed, and children feel free to construct their knowledge of currency counterfeiting, reports the Boston Glob. "My job is to help these children unlock the knowledge already within themselves," says Van Dyke.
This week, Mike and Rick talk Iowa, special education, and the wisdom of children. We've got an interview with Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Education News of the Weird is growing up so fast. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
It is by no small accident that Gadfly was able to get his pulvilli (as in the plural of pulvillus, of course, the sticky footpads on the feet of flies) on a copy of the OECD's Australia report.
