On January 28, 2010, we consider the timely question “School Turnarounds: Exciting and Felicitous or Expensive and Futile?” Featuring the authors of opposing Education Next articles, Bryan Hassel and Andy Smarick, we’ll also hear from Andrés Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, and Emily Lawson of the DC Prep charter network.
On Saturday, the Washington Post featured an op ed by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings declaring her "willingness to work with states to make [NCLB] fit their unique local needs." Today, Spellings will announce-at a special meeting with state chiefs at Mount Vernon, near Washington-the particulars of the plan, which will include allowing states that can prove they've made progress towa
A love/hate relationship sums up what’s happening across the country when it comes to district-charter collaboration. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is trying to spread the love by providing support and encouraging cooperation among district and charter leaders in places like New York City, New Orleans, Denver, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles.
Eight days earlier, on January 20, Jason Kamras, D.C. Public Schools’ Director of Human Capital Strategy for Teachers, will present and explain DCPS new effectiveness assessment for school-based employees.
This week, Mike and Rick talk about black kids, gifted kids, and the NYPD. We've got an interview with René Islas, and Education News of the Weird is a cultural revolution. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
This week, Mike and Rick consider the fate of urban Catholic schools, which can't seem to catch a break, as well as Rhee's "Plan B," and Palin's remarks at the VP debate. Amber enlightens us with a report on DC--achievement, poverty, housing, the whole shebang--while Rate that Reform avoids contracting rabies.
This week, Mike and Rick discuss Texas accountability developments, replicating the Harlem Children's Zone in Boston, and the teacher debacle out in L.A. Then Amber tells us about a new study on whether school choice affects house prices and Rate that Reform channels the Supreme Court.
Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality launched a new database on teacher collective bargaining agreements. It's chock full of good stuff! Check it out here.
How do Ohio's charter schools resemble modern Poland's economy? Travel with me across the Atlantic.
When I first heard the news about a Los Angeles elementary teacher killing himself, I cringed.
On June 12th, head over to the McGowan Theater at the National Archives at 10 a.m. There, the National History Center will host a discussion about the current state of history education. The event consists of two panels and a lunch speaker, and wraps up at 3 p.m. Diane Ravitch will chair one of the sessions.
On NCLB's fifth anniversary, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Representative Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) will unveil their bipartisan, bicameral legislation to create rigorous, voluntary core standards in math and science for children in grades K-12.
This week, Mike and Rick discuss the RTTT finalists (we’re a bit late, but this is a weekly show!), ED’s new push for “civil rights,” and whether school board presidents should be able to write a coherent sentence. Then Amber tells us about a new Education Trust study that overplays its hand and Stafford says, Don’t point!
Fordham is on the hunt for a Finance Director. If you have strong investing and accounting skills, and welcome the challenge of strategic budgeting for a complex, multi-million dollar nonprofit, we have just the job for you. Check out the Finance Director position here.
For years, we have resisted the pressure to start a blog of our own. We worried about having enough arresting commentaries (most blog posts are eye-glazingly tedious), plus we already had the weekly Gadfly.
Does Potomac Fever leave you feeling weak-kneed? Do you still love the challenge of working on big policy issues? The National Council on Teacher Quality has a job for you-State Policy Director. You'll be working with state-level organizations and leaders on national reform issues.
A warm and reasonably accurate profile of E.D. Hirsch appeared in last Sunday's Washington Post Magazine under the subtitle "How a U-Va.
On December 5th at the National Press Club, the National Charter School Research Project at the Center on Reinventing Public Education is hosting a luncheon to release the 2007 edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools.
The Department of Education's research branch, the Institute of Education Sciences, will be incomplete until it hires two new Research Scientists: one in Mathematics Learning, Instruction, and Policy, and the other in School Finance, Policy, and Systems Evaluation.
The Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) in the U.S. Department of Education seeks "outstanding scholars" for several "management and program analyst" positions.
Mike and Rick tackle public employee pensions, the forthcoming Blockbuster Waiting for Superman, and the two winning “race to the test” consortia. Amber then compares K-8 to middle schools and Rate that Reform takes out the recycling (on a school that didn’t do its homework!).
Who knew education data were so trendy? Yes, that's right, tickets to our data conference are almost as hot as for the inauguration.
Mike and Stafford tackle the edu-bailout—should the Administration’s pet projects be spared a haircut when everyone else has gotten clipped?—and cyber bullies. Amber gives us the final report on D.C.’s voucher program and Janie wants just one valedictorian.
There’s been much talk about the Supreme Court’s decision last week in Citizens United v.
This week, the Democratic Convention adopted a platform containing an education plank that offers something for everybody but nothing in particular.
Remember that top-notch conference that we hosted with AEI last year on the courts and education? Well that material has now been compiled into a stellar new book, From Schoolhouse to Courthouse, to be published jointly by Fordham and Brookings Institution Press on September 8.
The Education Leaders Council's (ELC) is hosting its 9th annual conference, which it says will be the first major post-election education reform conference focused on both policy and practice - in Orlando, FL, on December 3-4. For details, click here.
