This week, Mike and Rick talk about Louisiana's standardized tests, Seattle's about face on race, and teacher dissent in Denver. Jeff Kuhner makes a big announcement, and Education News of the Weird takes the road less traveled. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Village Academies is a network of promising New York City charter schools founded on the belief that, with demanding curricula and high expectations, all students have the opportunity to learn and achieve academic excellence.
Common Core has released an open letter to promoters of a 21st century skill-based curriculum, and the organization P21 in particular, entitled “A Challenge to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.” The letter argues that a curriculum based around skills, such as the one
This week, Mike and Rick talk Common Core, student pranks, and two schools--so close, yet so far. "Unemployed" school bus drivers are the Education Outrage of the Week, and Education News of the Weird does not compute. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Achievement First seeks a Director of Math Achievement, who will ensure that all AF schools have outstanding student achievement in math as measured by both standardized and state tests and our students' readiness for rigorous high school and college math courses.
This week, Mike and Rick chirp about middle class goodies, friendly Singaporeans, and New Orleans. Checker Finn doesn't like downtown Albuquerque, and Education News of the Weird leads to a fruitful discussion. Click here to listen through our website and view past editions.
The National Council on Teacher Quality, a fine organization, is seeking an Issues Director and a Field Director. All the information you need is available here.
The Department of Education seeks a new Director of the Office of Parental Options and Information in the Office of Innovation and Improvement. This is a fantastic job--in our humble opinion, one of the most important in the DOE.
The Walton Family Foundation has three Program Officer job openings: in district reform, school facilities, and educational options. Find more information here.
Exciting news: Fordham will sponsor two new schools in Columbus, Ohio, this fall. We welcome the Columbus Collegiate Academy and the KIPP: Journey Academy (the first KIPP school in Ohio). If you are interested in opening a charter school in Ohio sponsored by the Thomas B.
Rick and Mike snuggle around the microphone (“Can you not touch my leg?”) as they discuss Arne Duncan’s recent ed school speeches, Deborah Gist’s working within the system in Rhode Island, and the relationship between New York State’s charter cap and charter quality.
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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.
While everyone in educator-land obsesses over the $4 billion competition among states for Race to the Top (RTT) funding, the Education Department is readying a separate competition for less than one-tenth as much money that may nonetheless prove far more consequential for American education over the long term.
In her Tuesday speech at the Press Club, AFT President Randi Weingarten attempted to take the teacher-policy steering wheel back from Arne Duncan, who’s been driving since the Race to the Top motoring began. The big news is her willingness to reconsider due process rules and to revamp teacher evaluations. Ms.
This week, Mike and guest host Howie Schaffer chat about breakups in Philly, charter madrassas, and more automatons. Education News of the Weird is... "Food Fight"! Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
We regret the need to cancel next week’s book event for Diane Ravitch, but the author has cut short her promotional tour for The Demise and Reincarnation of the Not-So-Great American School System to finish up her next new book, provisionally titled Vouching for Vouchers II: How School Choice and Accountability Will Save America’s Schools After All.
