On June 3 from 9 to 10:30, the American Enterprise Institute will host "Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don't)." This short event will evaluate college graduation rates and how stimulus dollars may change the dropout landscape for higher ed. Find more information and RSVP here.
On Wednesday, September 3rd, from 4 to 5 p.m., the Fordham Institute will host a discussion of David Whitman's fresh and exciting book, Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism.
This week, Mike and Rick talk about Steve Jobs, smart kids, and the Japanese. We've got an interview with the AFT's Michele McLaughlin, and Education News of the Weird is either disgusting or delicious--we're not sure. Click here to listen through our website and view past editions.
We mourn the death of J. Patrick Rooney, a pioneer of the voucher movement. His privately funded efforts were the antecedent of modern scholarship tax credits. These days, there are tax credit programs six states helping thousands of parents find the appropriate school environment for their child.
Ross Elementary, a DC public school in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, is looking for staff for its extended day program. Email resumes to, or ask for further information from, [email protected].
Keep an eye on your inbox on Tuesday, September 7, for your first edition of Fwd:, a new product from Fordham. Fwd: is an occasional series of white papers, short articles, and items of interest that we'll be sending out as the spirit moves us.
The new D.C. teachers’ contract has gotten much media attention, which might prove helpful or harmful for D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty going into his November reelection campaign against D.C. Council chair Vincent Gray. Lucky for you, the Young Education Professionals has organized a mayoral education debate.
"I just got back from Joel Klein's address at the American Enterprise Institute (carried live on C-SPAN).
Here’s a general rule: when you see sentences like the one above, know to be very, very skeptical.
Two years ago I complained about the "apple ballot" that the Montgomery County Education Association distributed with its election-time endorsements.
It's been awhile since I outright fawned over President Obama, so I'm going to let this one fly without any restraint or reserve: His speech to the NAACP last week kicked butt. It was transcendent. It was inspirational.
"Now you know the thesis of this Education Week commentary by USA Today editorial page writer Richard Whitmire; here are the key paragraphs...." Read it here.
Let's assume for a moment that the current trajectory of the presidential election remains the same and Obama wins by a significant margin, maybe even a landslide.
For the better part of a week, Washington has been consumed by the Shirley Sherrod pseudo-scandal, leading many pundits to ponder race relations in America circa 2010.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction just released the state's preliminary school ratings under the No Child Left Behind act, and a mere 79 schools were found to be "needing improvement." That's about three percent of all public schools in Wisconsin--practically a rounding error! Wisconsin has figured it out.
"That's my take on the new Marcus Winters/Jay Greene/Julie Trivitt study on the impact of high-stakes testing on low-stakes subjects in Florida...." Read it here.
Macke RaymondCREDOApril 2010
Moses Brown and Aaron Green, Indiana University Graduate School of EducationDecember 2079
National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsJanuary 2010
National Association of Secondary School Principals2006
National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card Grade 12: Reading and Mathematics 2009 (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, November 2010).
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, September 2001
Office of Educational Technology, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology: National Education Technology Plan 2010 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 2010).
Lorraine Dearden, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, and Costas MeghirJournal of Human ResourcesFall 2009
Sarah PalinSarah PAC PublishingApril 2009
Sharon Lewis, Candace Simon, Renata Uzzell, Amanda Horwitz, and Michael Casserly, A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools (Washington, D.C.: The Council of the Great City Schools, October 2010).
Sian L. Beilock, Elizabeth A Gunderson, Gerardo Ramirez, and Susan C. LevineProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesJanuary 2010
Southern Education FoundationSeptember 2009
