Such inattention to detail, such malicious slander, I can not tolerate. Your recent report, The Leadership Bimbo, incorrectly depicts me on its front cover as at least 30 or 40 pounds heavier than I actually am.
This week, Mike and Rick discuss Hillary Clinton, dropouts, and impotent mayors. Sheila Byrd flies in to chat about Fordham's new AP/IB report, and Education News of the Weird is tracking you. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
It’s all ESEA all the time this week, as Andy and Mike square off in debate over the Obama Administration’s reauthorization blueprint. Then Amber tells us about charter-school teacher evaluations and Stafford wants to know is it Conn-ec-ti-cut?
Join us as we bid farewell to New Jersey’s new Deputy Commissioner of Education, Andy Smarick. First, he and Mike discuss how to educate the severely disabled, then Andy gives us his final thoughts on Race to the Top, School Improvement Grants, and turnarounds.
Spectrum Academy--the catchy if slightly off-putting name for Utah’s K-8 charter school for students with autism (or “on the spectrum”--get it?)--will expand its offerings to high school in fall 2010. What’s more interesting is how the school’s very existence reminds us of two contentious issues.
Fordham is pleased to welcome Jeff Kuhner, our new communications director. Jeff formerly worked at the Washington Times as editor of Insight Magazine. We're thrilled to have him on board.
The Head Start program has needed a radical overhaul for the past forty-five years, i.e. ever since its founding and its near-immediate demonstration that it doesn’t do much lasting good by way of readying poor kids to succeed in school.
This week, Mike and Rick discuss the finer points of French pronunciation, the treasures of the Canadian frontier, and Eddie Murphy's lessons for closing the achievement gap.
No, it's not Petraeus Week at National Review Online--it's Education Week! Check it out here.
The Detroit Glee Repress reported this week that the 2007 graduation rate in the city's public schools was zero percent-not a single student received a diploma last year. Reporters and grief counselors spent weeks combing Motor City for a high-school graduate but found none.
There’s still time to sign up for the joint Fordham-AEI conference “A Penny Saved: How Schools and Districts Can Tighten Their Belts While Serving Students Better.” It runs all day on January 11, 2009 at the Mayflower Hotel--that bastion of fiscal responsibility and moderation--in downtown Washingto
This week, Mike and Rick talk about Arizona, Atlanta, Checker Finn, and Diane Ravitch. Professor Stefanie DeLuca, of Johns Hopkins, chats about why moving poor kids won't help them learn, and Education News of the Weird is bombastic. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
Though recent developments in Iraq take some of the sting out of this mistake, it was wrong of me (in a Gadfly editorial on March 27) to analogize American teacher unions and ed schools to "Republican Guards," who were, at the time, battling brave U.S. servicemen and women. My point, of course, was that we, too, have institutions devoted to discredited regimes.
There was a terrific editorial in Saturday’s Dayton Daily News about the storied twelve-year charter school history in Fordham’s hometown and why we can be optimistic about the future of charters there. As DDN notes, until New Orleans began r
With football on the brain, Mike and Rick offer up a play-by-play of the Joel Klein-Cathie Black saga in New York City, and sack NCATE’s reform report. Amber reveals an interesting Education Next survey to the hosts, and Chris decries a camp-out.
District of Columbia Public Schools are currently looking for spring interns for their Urban Education Leaders Internship Program (UELIP). This internship is fast-paced, elbow-deep in research and policy, and focused on turning around local government and local schools.
Having made a splash in DC education, Michelle Rhee is now seeking talented interns for summer 2009 to help fulfill her and DCPS' challenging mission. Unlike a run-of-the-mill internship, the Urban Education Leadership Internship Program with DCPS allows students to immerse themselves in the vital activities of the district's Central Office.
Longtime Flypaper readers might remember the old Reform-o-Meter, in which I would rate the Obama Administration’s efforts on school reform, from ice-cold to red-hot.
Fifty-three years after Sputnik caused an earthquake in American education by giving us reason to believe that the Soviet Union had surpassed us, China has delivered another shock. On math, reading, and science tests given to 15-year-olds in sixty-five countries last year, Shanghai’s teenagers topped every other jurisdiction in all three subjects—by a sweeping margin.
Last Saturday's Washington Post reported on two underperforming area schools, one on Virginia and one in Maryland. At Maury Elementary in Alexandria-the only school in the Virginia suburbs of D.C. to be identified as "needing improvement" under No Child Left Behind-13 percent of students have transferred to other area schools, private and public.
Last month, City Journal published a long article by Justin Kaplowitz, a former Teach for America corps member whose teaching career was abruptly ended after one year when a disgruntled parent filed a frivolous $20 million lawsuit charging that Kaplowitz had hit her child [see http://www.edexcellence.net/gadfly/issue.cfm?
On Tuesday, President-Elect Obama ended weeks of speculation by selecting Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan to be his secretary of education.
Mike and Rick discuss the relationship between K-12 diversity and quality, swapping the ACT for state high school graduation tests, and Schwarzegger's flexibility on class size reduction funds. Then Amber gives us some bad news on state teacher staffing plans and Rate that Reform audits Office Depot.
Is there more to school reform than student achievement? Baltimore schools CEO Andres Alonso would say no.
On Wednesday, July 11th, from 2 to 3 p.m., join Education Week for an online conversation about principals and The Autonomy Gap. A few days before the chat, you can go here to submit your questions. Should be a lively discussion!
This week, Mike and guest co-host, education advocate Dave Deschryver, chat about why management matters, why Checker Finn is not the only conservative in Washington, and why we'll have two more years to criticize NCLB. Education News of the Weird is out of the office and will have inconsistent email access.
This week, Mike and guest co-host Coby Loup of the Fordham Foundation talk about Catholic schools, prison schools, and fat schools. Jeff Kuhner is outraged by bus drivers who can't hold it, and Education News of the Weird is, too. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
GreatSchools, a Bay Area non-profit that works to encourage parental involvement, is seeking a new COO. (You may have heard of their stellar website, GreatSchools.org.) This individual would report directly to the CEO and founder, and oversee organizational strategy, development of new projects, and recruitment of high-quality staff to the GreatSchools family.
This week, we welcome guest co-host Andy Smarick to the show. He and Mike discuss test scores in New York, preliminary results of Roland Fryer's Sparks program, and giving out a diploma seventy-three years late.
Such an opportunity only comes around once in a while: To work for AEI’s Rick Hess. He’s hiring a new Research Assistant and he’s looking for you.
