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Quotable & notable

"America, not just Wake County, should stand up and say this is wrong and we're not going back to the days of segregated schools."* Rev. William J. Barber, President of North Carolina chapter of NAACP

Education news nuggets

Beware?Plastic Pellots may whiz by you in your dating violence course.

Nobody deserves tenure

Nobody deserves tenure, with the possible exception of federal judges. University professors don't deserve tenure; civil servants don't deserve tenure; police and firefighters don't deserve tenure; school teachers don't deserve tenure.

Time for change

Harvard's Graduate School of Education released today?a report, Pathways to Prosperity, which, to judge by the heft of those who contributed to the document's ?Advance Praise?

Thoughts on desegregation

The first one is that the terms need changing. When we speak today of school ?desegregation?

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Get angry.

Let the budget battle begin: New York style

New York's new governor, Andrew Cuomo, unveiled his proposed state budget yesterday and, as expected, it's not pretty.

Kumbaya? Not quite yet in Gotham

It must have been quite an event, last night's storm-tossed public meeting of New York City's Panel for Education Policy, a Bloomberg created group that makes recommendations to the mayor on key education issues.?According to Elizabeth Green of Gotham Schools

Kumbaya ? not quite yet in Gotham

It must have been quite an event, last night's storm-tossed public meeting of New York City's Panel for Education Policy, a Bloomberg created group that makes recommendations to the mayor on key education issues.?According to Elizabeth Green of Gotham Schools

Reinventing the Empire State

As Peter noted earlier, we're witnessing something rare in New York right now ?

Reinventing the Empire State

As Peter noted earlier, we're witnessing something rare in New York right now ?

LIVE Webcast: Are Bad Schools Immortal?

If you've been affected by the weather today, please join the Fordham Institute online today at 3:30pm for a a lively and provocative debate about our latest report, Are Bad Schools Imm

Quotable & notable

?What the Chinese are very good at doing is achieving short-term goals. They're good at copying things, not creating them'' * ?Jiang Xueqin, Deputy Principal of Peking University High School

Here we go

Man the battle stations. The Miami Herald reports that ?the chairman of the [state] Senate's education policy committee filed a measure this week that would partially base teacher salary increases on student test scores.?

Big questions

?The snowstorm kicked out electricity last week,? writes Jay Mathews on his Washington Post Class Struggle blog. ?It was hard to write the column without access to the Internet.?

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Do you have the blues?

A decade of researching, refuting and remaking reform. That's all?

Indeed, Happy 10th Anniversary, Education Next!? Co-founder, and editor-in-chief Paul Peterson has a nifty review of the journal's founding ? at a meeting with Checker Finn, Jay Greene, and Marci Kanstoroom in 2000 ?

The Walls Come Tumblin' Down: Is Tenure Next?

It began with punching holes through the ?firewall? between teacher evaluations and student performance, which many states have done thanks to Race to the Top prompting.

Quotable & notable

?Why aren't governors standing up and saying, ?In our state, we'll devise a system where nobody will ever get into a classroom who isn't competent'? Instead they are saying, ?Let's make it easy to fire teachers.' That's the wrong goal'' * ?Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association

Mike talks NCLB

In case you missed it, Mike?Petrilli?was a guest yesterday on the Pat Morrison (radio) show on Southern California Public Radio (the NPR

Keeping poor kids out of good schools is a nationwide phenomenon

Stimulus funds iPadded the pockets of Apple

When Congress starts to debate education funding in coming weeks and months, keep the following headlines in mind. All of them refer to federal dollars that flowed from the $100 billion education stimulus. At Avondale Elementary, 90 new iPads help students ?app'ly themselves

Field notes: Big ideas interrupted by guns, drugs, and eviction

I was just finishing up my ?Sunday morning, big picture memo about school district priorities when the phone rang. I should know better by now than to answer a phone on Sunday morning.? But I did.

It must be the beginning of the beginning*: Negotiations 101

Now it's an AP report, via the Wall Street Journal, telling us that Mayor Bloomberg will have to lay off lots of teachers ?unless teacher seniority rules are changed.?

Real talk about virtual education

Don't miss Bill Tucker's new post on the Education Next page. He takes out?after the Times for a piece they did about digital learning in Florida.

Education news nuggets

Maybe we need to stop worrying about the kids; teenagers are the ones coming up with real solutions (if they aren't suspended, that is).

Education news nuggets

In a world where snow days are now e-days, it comes as no surprise that we have problems on our hands.

Is this the beginning of the end? Or of the beginning?

Reuters is reporting that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to lay off 15,000 teachers in New York City in anticipation of State deficit crunches.

Quotable & notable

?Given my choice, I'd much rather absorb the cost of running the assessment office than taking on the teacher pensions?'' * ?Bud Church, Worcester County, Maryland Commissioner President