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The Gadfly Daily’s week in review
Here’s a quick review of what Fordham’s bloggers had to say this week.
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The conservative case for the Common Core
Stop obsessing with the "tight" and start rallying around the "loose"
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Checker Finn on student discipline
Catch up on the Education Department's new report on student discipline by watching last night's PBS NewsHour discussion with Checker and the University of California, Berkeley's Christopher Edley, Jr.
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Do we need a “virtual” education ministry?
Mike proposes a private-sector department of education, but run much more efficiently and with higher-quality staff than the government ever could.
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Catching up on the waivers
Watch the full video from "Weighing the Waivers: Did the Administration Get It Right on ESEA Flexibility?"
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James Q. Wilson, RIP
His contributions to America's vitality—and sanity—deserve to celebrated. And his absence to be mourned.
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The Gadfly Daily’s week in review
A look back at some of Fordham’s best posts for the week of February 27, 2012
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Coffee, donuts, & NCLB waivers: Don’t miss it!
Tomorrow morning, the Fordham Institute will host experts from the media, the Administration, and think tanks to answer at “Weighing the Waivers: Did the Administration Get It Right on ESEA Flexibility?”
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Eric Hanushek on the "teacher effectiveness gap"
The Hoover Institution's Eric Hanushek weighs in on variation in teacher quality between schools.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong, Mr. President
We are obligated to respect the office of President of the United States but nobody needs to agree with what the occupant of that office says. And Barack Obama could not have been more wrong in his remarks yesterday to the nation's governors on the subject of school teachers.
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Required reading for ESEA reauthorization
With the House Education and the Workforce Committee marking up two bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (a.k.a. No Child Left Behind) today, look back at Mike Petrilli's analysis of where Congress disagrees and what a compromise could look like.
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American education can't win if it doesn't play the game
Guest blogger Marc Tucker explains that the U.S. is not only not in the game of learning from other countries' education systems, it does not even know the game is being played.
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The "teacher effectiveness gap" was just a myth: 3 implications
The finding that really good, and really bad, teachers are evenly distributed around New York City upends everything we thought we knew about teacher quality.
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Rethinking LRE
Why it just doesn't make sense for every school to be required to handle every type of learning disability.
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The Gadfly Daily’s week in review
A look back at commentary and analysis from the Fordham Institute’s blogs for the week of February 20.
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Charter Schools
Georgia House passes measure to test the “134-year-old status quo”
The Georgia House this week took another step toward exiling last spring’s state Supreme Court decision prohibiting the state approval of charter schools to the history books, where it belongs.
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Untouchable?
Mike Petrilli and Ty Eberhardt discuss the soft spots in President Obama's education record.
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Memo to the world: America’s secret sauce isn’t made in our classrooms
It's what American kids are doing after school and on the weekends that sparks innovation.
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It SHOULD be hard to pull the parent trigger
The recent failure to enact a parent trigger in a California community is an example of how the system should work.
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Republicans for Education Reform
Race to the Top deserves some credit, but GOP victories deserve more.
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Charter Schools
Santorum lends extremes to a movement that should find a center
The spotlight shining on the GOP candidate's educational philosophy is both a blessing and a curse for home-schooling parents and their advocates.
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A price tag on misbehavior? An embattled Chicago charter network isn’t alone
A charter network's practice of charging fees for misbehavior has precedence in some Catholic school codes of conduct.
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Embracing the Common Core - Michael Cohen Presentation
Mike Cohen, president of Achieve, spoke to the specifics of PARCC (the assessment consortia Ohio joined last fall) and warned that the implementation of the new standards in ELA and math will not be easy and that districts should start the implementation process now.
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Embracing the Common Core - Stan Heffner Presentation
Among the speakers at the event was State Superintendent Stan Heffner who stressed that the system Ohio currently has is letting kids down and not preparing them for the future. He went on to emphasize that the Common Core gives us the opportunity and chance to do better for our kids and we must capitalize on that.
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Obama’s education record
A new EdNext article looks at Obama's education record after four years in the White House.
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Big-government business leaders?
If the 2012 election were to be decided on the basis of federal education policy, chalk up another significant gain for President Obama, as the titans of American business come down foursquare for yesterday's reform agenda.