As the Washington Post is reporting, the draft K-11 "common core" standards are due to be published any moment. Our own Checker Finn has studied the reading standards and is impressed.
The NGA has asked us to clarify that it doesn't view PISA as the "holy grail of international standards and assessments" ("The 2008 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well are American Students Learning?," February 26, 2009). PISA was mentioned in its recent benchmarking report as one of several
The House Committee Formerly Known as Education and Labor issued this week a scathing report that tied 32 KIPP and Achievement First schools to the use of illegal, performance-enhancing drugs.
This week’s National Journal online discussion features Fordham’s latest report: Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010.
Ohio’s impending budget crisis has been danced around by the state’s politicians during this election season, but there is no doubt that no matter the outcome on Tuesday education faces some tough cuts. Ohioans are finally coming to realize that unmitigated increases in school spending like we’ve seen in years past are no longer an option going forward.
When 17-year-old Brandon Frost wore his Indianapolis Colts jersey last Friday to support his hometown football team, his school’s principal was less than receptive. See, Frost had moved three years ago from Indiana to rural Louisiana, where Maurepas High School principal Steve Vampran had relaxed the student dress code for Black-and-Gold Day in honor of the New Orleans Saints.
This week, Mike and Stafford discuss the fate of Catholic schools (again), Russ Whitehurst’s call to the Obama Administration to stop ignoring curriculum, and the future of school boards. Then Amber tells us about a new RAND study on social promotion and Rate that Reform gets S.A.D.
Almost since the contest was announced, those of us working in Ohio have wondered whether Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top decisions could really be politics-free.
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Education and in conjunction with the National Charter School Conference in Miami the following week, USCharterSchools.org invites you to join a web dialogue, June 7-10.
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Education and in conjunction with the National Charter School Conference in Miami the following week, USCharterSchools.org invites you to join a web dialogue, June 7-10.
The U.S. Department of Education is looking for individuals to review grants for the Transition to Teaching program (which will support alternative routes to licensure) and the Voluntary Public School Choice program (which will support local choice initiatives). Reviewers will spend 5 days in Washington and be paid a small stipend and travel costs.
The Office of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education is looking to hire an education program specialist (GS-13, salary range $69,054- 89,774) for the Public Charter Schools program.
This week, Mike and Rick talk about marketplaces, attorneys general, and Denver. Checker Finn pays us a visit and chats about the Broad Prize, and Education News of the Weird is: Got Milk? Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
In response to Martin Davis's article ("Ed reform, born again?" May 11), I want to know if he's read the think-piece, "Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education," by Robert Reich. He quotes Justice White in Wisconsin v.
The private sector is reclaiming Friend-of-Gadfly Vic Klatt, who has served Howard "Buck" McKeon, the House Education and Labor Committee's Senior Republican, as his top staffer for the past two years (Vic's second tour on the Hill). Replacing him is the eminently capable Sally Stroup, a former assistant secretary for postsecondary education.
Chomp at the bit no longer. The video from our event, Are Education Schools Amenable to Reform?, is now available. Watch it here.
Watch last week’s frank discussion about the lessons Fordham has learned as a charter school sponsor in Ohio, culled from our new book, Ohio’s Education Reform Challenges: Lessons From the Frontline.
The Village Academies - a network of college preparatory public charter schools based in Harlem that strives to develop students of fine character who graduate from college and make a positive contribution to society - seeks a new controller.
From the Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog we learn that Washington’s mayor-to-be, Vincent Gray, “believes a student’s family life is at least as important” as the quality of that student’s teacher and has “questioned whether kids can pr
In September, the U.S. Department of Education announced a grant of $10 million to help Western Governors University (www.wgu.edu), a virtual university, create an online, competency-based teachers college. The University is now hiring a director of assessment as well as faculty members in math education, reading, and English language learning.
Filios meos, quos iuvenes mihi eripuit fortuna, Gaium et Lucium Caesares honoris mei caussa senatus populusque Romanus annum quintum et decimum agentis consules designavit, ut eum magistratum inirent post quinquennium, et ex eo die quo deducti sunt in forum ut interessent consiliis publicis decrevit senatus.
Don't miss your last chance to RSVP for our next Great Debate, "With charter schools ascendant, is there still a future for vouchers?" It's next Wednesday, August 19, 2009 from 4 to 5:30 pm. RSVP to Amy Fagan at [email protected].
Join Kevin Carey, John Kirtley, Gerard Robinson, and Susan Zelman as they discuss, "With charter schools ascendant, is there still a future for vouchers?" The discussion, which will take place on August 19 from 4 to 5:30 pm, will be moderated by Mike Petrilli. RSVP to Amy Fagan at [email protected].
The Walton Foundation seeks an education program officer. This position is one of a ten-person team that oversees grantees under the Foundation’s Systemic K-12 Education Reform Focus Area.
This week, Mike and Rick discuss why some kids shouldn't go to college, the Reading First study is flawed, and Randi Weingarten lies so much. Jeff Kuhner is outraged about L.A., and Education News of the Weird has bite. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Congratulations to Terry Ryan, Fordham's VP for Ohio programs and policy, who is part of the NewSchools-Aspen Institute Fellows Class of 2008 (he passed his entrance exam with flying colors). Learn more here about all the 2008 Fellows.
Virtually join Fordham—and an inspired group of panelists—today from 3:30 to 5:00 PM for our event “Are Education Schools Amenable to Reform?”
Our book launch event for former Education Secretary Rod Paige’s new treatise The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time is at capacity.
This week on the Education Gadfly Show, Mike Petrilli and Rick Hess explain why everyone’s wrong about Race to the Top, go tit-for-tat over the L.A. Times, and ponder life in D.C. after Michelle Rhee. Then Amber Winkler disses Education Next and Kyle Kennedy explores a different kind of tracking.
In case you missed the fascinating debate on weighted student funding between John Podesta, Rod Paige, Arlene Ackerman, and Michael Rebell, video is available online via the Center for American Progress. John Merrow's questions and the panelists' feisty remarks made it a real barn-burner (we're serious) worth checking out.
