We need a fall intern. The best candidates are college students or recent graduates who are interested in education policy; fine writers; sharp thinkers; described on their Facebook profiles by words such as fun, lively, amicable, humorous, and perspicacious.
You won't want to miss our May 5 conference, "International Lessons about National Standards." Michigan State's William Schmidt will offer major new findings while Education Secretary Arne Duncan will keynote. You can sign up for this all-day event at the Capitol Hilton in downtown D.C.
Such exciting times! Fordham has D.C.-based internship opportunities available in both our research and new media departments. We’re looking for those who want to engage in thoughtful research in a fast-paced, high-energy office and those who wish to spread the education reform word through online networking, blogging, and video.
The District of Columbia Public Schools has opened the application process for the fall 2009 iteration of the Urban Education Leadership Program. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until September 18 for an internship position that would last until December 2009. You can find more information here.
Are you bright, witty, a great writer, and detail oriented? Then you just may be perfect for our research internships. Fordham is currently seeking summer interns to help us with research, commentary, and office duties.
...Is a panel of Fordham Trustees (featuring David Driscoll, Bruno Manno, Rod Paige, and Diane Ravitch) on February 23 from 4:30-5:45. The topic: whether NCLB damaged school accountability--and if President Obama can mend it.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about MBA principals, New York City's data-tracking, and what else ails Dallas. Education News of the Weird is personality driven. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
This week, Mike and guest host Dave DeSchryver, who is on facebook, talk growth models, Ohio's teachers, and Chicago's military. We chat with the Cato Institute's Neal McCluskey, and Education News of the Weird is well-rounded. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald F. Seib is wise in the ways of Washington and practiced at reading its political entrails. But is he right to think that K–12 education is the great centrist issue of 2010--and that it will reignite the Democrats’ prospects by appealing to independents and least a few Republicans? Hmmm.
The mylifeisabout (MLIA) project, an online/in-class interactive program for teens based on Stedman Graham’s New York Times Bestseller, Teens Can Make It Happen, and his “9- Step Success Process,” is seeking a writer experienced in lesson plan design.
Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) is looking for a Senior Research Manager for its Strategic Data Project (SDP). This individual would help develop SDP’s analytic tools, report design, and project strategy. Do you love to crunch numbers but have great management skills, too? Find more information here.
The Core Knowledge national conference is taking place February 22-24 in Washington, D.C. Don't miss Thursday's special sessions and keynote addresses from E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and acclaimed teacher and author Rafe Esquith. They also have a nifty panel moderated by Diane Ravitch.
You may have noticed in today's email announcement about Stretching the School Dollar that we misspelled the word "school" in the email's header. Outsourcing our own editorial capacity to India as a cost cutting measure seems to have backfired. As an education shop, we felt we had to apologize for the orthographic mauling of the institution we work daily to improve.
In a move that K.T. Hayloft has called "dastardly" and "akin in awfulness to the hypothetical love-child of Genghis Khan and Amy Winehouse," the California Department of Education plans to randomly select "superstudents" in each public school, youngsters whose test scores will count for those of all their peers.
Whither educational entrepreneurship? asks Rick Hess and a glittering array of experts who will speak at an American Enterprise Institute conference all day long on October 25, 2007. Find out more about the event and RSVP here.
About a year ago we published a major new look at high-achieving charter schools by exceptional story-teller David Whitman. You responded by buying every last copy we had (including the personal copies of our staff!). Well, good news: A new and improved second edition of Sweating the Small Stuff is now available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Think your child is going to school too young? Don’t move to Sweden. In Mother Svea, children enter preschool as young as twelve months.
This week, we welcome guest co-host Andy Smarick. He and Mike discuss the DC voucher program's slow death, Obama's overseas mea culpas, and Tucson's plans to ditch principals. Then, Amber tells us about the updated Calder study on high school TFA teachers and Rate that Reform talks old-school poisoning.
This week, Mike and Rick debate school discipline in Las Vegas, firing teachers in Iowa, and academic freedom in Florida. Jeff Kuhner is outraged about students who punch their teachers, and Education News of the Weird investigates a local retail area. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Sometimes you have to take one step backward to go two steps forward. That's more or less what happened in New York State when the clock struck midnight on July 1, the long-scheduled date for "sunset" of mayoral control of Gotham's schools.
The Education Gladfly is published once a year by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. It ordinarily appears on April 1, but may never appear again if this issue is poorly received.
For information on Fordham's first year of experience as a charter sponsor in Ohio, there's no better source than the Foundation's brand-new Sponsorship Accountability Report 2005-06.
Are you a K-12 administrator or teacher? Or an education researcher? The Fulbright Scholar Program (one of the many Fulbright programs) invites you to apply for 2010-2011 academic year grants. The program, sponsored by the State Department, is geared towards academics and scholars looking to participate in international intellectual exchange. The deadline is August 1, 2009.
Do school turnarounds work? Come learn more at Fordham on January 28, 2010 from 2pm-3:30pm.
The Manhattan Institute seeks a Research Assistant on Education Policy to support Senior Fellow Jay Greene in the Institute's new office in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. This is a full-time position with health insurance and other fringe benefits.
The National Association for Charter School Authorizers’ Fund for Charter Authorizing Excellence is currently accepting grant applications in three categories: Authorizer Evaluation (up to $7,500), Strategic Planning (up to $50,000 with 15 percent funding match), and Implementation (up to $125,000 with 25 percent funding match).
This week, Stafford and Mike contemplate the impact of public school cuts on private school enrollments, paying students to attend Saturday tutoring, and the merits of celebrity high school graduation speakers. Then Amber tells us about a new evaluation of the Chicago performance-pay system, and Janie bans cell phones.
Fordham research director Unjust Toro announced this week that his hard-hitting editorials are officially for sale. Toro, sick of writing clever puns and anecdotes and receiving only one paycheck, said, "Listen, no one writes anything for free anymore.
Note: Gadfly needs feedback. Tomorrow, your favorite education-reform insect will e-mail you a link to a short reader survey. This is your chance to send him all the bouquets and brickbats you've been storing up. Please help us out and spend two minutes answering our multiple-choice questions.
