Authorizer type & charter structure don't seem to correlate to quality
Last week we kicked off our series of achievement analyses, an annual look at how students in Ohio's Big 8 urban districts and charters are performing.
Last week we kicked off our series of achievement analyses, an annual look at how students in Ohio's Big 8 urban districts and charters are performing.
Of the many theories that have overtaken educational policy and practice, few have been as influential as the belief that every child learns in his or her own way (see Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind:The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 1983, which set the ?one size fits all? world on fire).?
?We're raising young people who are, by and large, historically illiterate.'' * ? David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Things are rocky for icons Rhee, Jobs, and King, but perhaps not as bad as they could be for
It's back to school ? and perhaps to court -- for the New York State Board of Regents (NYBOR) and the New York State Education Department (NYSED).?
?The Missile should add ?Rehab one-size-fits-all school councils, even if community groups go ballistic' to the checklist and ram change through.'' * ? James Warren, New York Times reporter on Rahm Emanuel's mayoral priorities
When AFT President Randi Weingarten and Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute sat down for their conversation, ?When Ref
If you step back from day to day vitriol that characterizes the current education-policy ?debate,? and glimpse the larger picture, two worldviews on education reform emerge. One, articulated by the likes of Linda Darling-Hammond, Marc Tucker, David Cohen, and others, obsesses about curricular ?coherence,? and the lack thereof in our nation's schools.
The big news out of Gotham this week (Times,?
?Taking a course online, by yourself, is not the same as being in a classroom with a professor who can respond to you, present different viewpoints and push you to work a problem'' * ? Johann Neem, Associate Professor of History at?Western Washington University
If memory serves, the old TV show Hart to Hart used to begin with the narrator intoning, ?And when they met, it was murder.? Well, earlier this week AFT honcho Randi Weingarten and I engaged in a hard-hitting but genial debate at the Fordham Institute. Within a couple hours, we experienced the most severe East Coast earthquake in sixty-plus years. A coincidence? You decide.
Mike and Rick get punchy this week, asking Arne Duncan what he was thinking going after Rick Perry, why the cheating scandals are snowballing (and why people thought it would be otherwise), and if four-day weeks are as bad as they seem. Amber goes back to ed school to pad her GPA and Chris reminds a Florida teacher of his first-amendment rights. [powerpress]
Watch AEI's Rick Hess and the AFT's Randi Weingarten discuss Wisconsin at an August Fordham event.
At the heart of the Wisconsin debate was whether or not public workers should be allowed to bargain collectively.?
?The past twenty years of education reform consist of brilliant people working?very, very hard?to achieve?moderate gains.''* ? Neerav Kingsland, Chief Strategy Officer of New Schools for New Orleans
In case you missed it or were distracted by, say, the D.C. earthquake, the video of yesterday's thought-provoking ?When Reform Touches Teachers?
The Ohio Department of Education released student achievement data for the 2010-11 school year earlier today, and the results for Dayton provide a picture of what's happening per school performance in Fordham's hometown.
It's silly season again, and I'm not referring to the Republican primaries. No, I'm thinking about the all-out battle for proponents and opponents of "reform" to stick a nasty label on the other side and claim the mantle of truth and goodness for themselves.
?This decision, as difficult as it was for Dr. Ackerman, is consistent with her history, as well as recognition that for the district to best move forward, it must do so with new leadership''* ? Robert L. Archie Jr., Chairman, School Reform Commission of Philadelphia School District
To follow up on my Taunting Michelle Rhee post yesterday, I note that Whitney Tilson reminded his email readers today that
I shake my head every time I see stories like this: To Cut Costs, 120+ Districts Shift to 4-Day Weeks.
?The Oregon Education Association scorecard for the 2011 legislative session looks something like the report card received by John Belushi's wayward fraternity in ?Animal House.''' * ?Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian
Having been stiffed by many a good (and bad) source (including a few educators) in my career as a journalist, I was tempted to advise Michael Winerip to lay off Michelle Rhee for his Eager for Sptlight, But Not If It Is On a Testing Scandal column in today's New Y
The gloves are off. What remained last week of bipartisanship on education in Washington has been buried. And education may yet turn into a major issue in the 2012 presidential race.