It must have been quite an event, last night's storm-tossed public meeting of New York City's Panel for Education Policy, a Bloomberg created group that makes recommendations to the mayor on key education issues.?According to Elizabeth Green of Gotham Schools
As Peter noted earlier, we're witnessing something rare in New York right now ?
As Peter noted earlier, we're witnessing something rare in New York right now ?
Harvard's Graduate School of Education released today?a report, Pathways to Prosperity, which, to judge by the heft of those who contributed to the document's ?Advance Praise?
The first one is that the terms need changing. When we speak today of school ?desegregation?
If you've been affected by the weather today, please join the Fordham Institute online today at 3:30pm for a a lively and provocative debate about our latest report, Are Bad Schools Imm
?What the Chinese are very good at doing is achieving short-term goals. They're good at copying things, not creating them'' * ?Jiang Xueqin, Deputy Principal of Peking University High School
Indeed, Happy 10th Anniversary, Education Next!? Co-founder, and editor-in-chief Paul Peterson has a nifty review of the journal's founding ? at a meeting with Checker Finn, Jay Greene, and Marci Kanstoroom in 2000 ?
It began with punching holes through the ?firewall? between teacher evaluations and student performance, which many states have done thanks to Race to the Top prompting.
Man the battle stations. The Miami Herald reports that ?the chairman of the [state] Senate's education policy committee filed a measure this week that would partially base teacher salary increases on student test scores.?
?The snowstorm kicked out electricity last week,? writes Jay Mathews on his Washington Post Class Struggle blog. ?It was hard to write the column without access to the Internet.?
?Why aren't governors standing up and saying, ?In our state, we'll devise a system where nobody will ever get into a classroom who isn't competent'? Instead they are saying, ?Let's make it easy to fire teachers.' That's the wrong goal'' * ?Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association
In case you missed it, Mike?Petrilli?was a guest yesterday on the Pat Morrison (radio) show on Southern California Public Radio (the NPR
I was just finishing up my ?Sunday morning, big picture memo about school district priorities when the phone rang. I should know better by now than to answer a phone on Sunday morning.? But I did.
When Congress starts to debate education funding in coming weeks and months, keep the following headlines in mind. All of them refer to federal dollars that flowed from the $100 billion education stimulus. At Avondale Elementary, 90 new iPads help students ?app'ly themselves
Now it's an AP report, via the Wall Street Journal, telling us that Mayor Bloomberg will have to lay off lots of teachers ?unless teacher seniority rules are changed.?
Don't miss Bill Tucker's new post on the Education Next page. He takes out?after the Times for a piece they did about digital learning in Florida.
Maybe we need to stop worrying about the kids; teenagers are the ones coming up with real solutions (if they aren't suspended, that is).
Reuters is reporting that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is set to lay off 15,000 teachers in New York City in anticipation of State deficit crunches.
In a world where snow days are now e-days, it comes as no surprise that we have problems on our hands.
?Given my choice, I'd much rather absorb the cost of running the assessment office than taking on the teacher pensions?'' * ?Bud Church, Worcester County, Maryland Commissioner President
It's not a new sci-fi movie ? but it's a longstanding issue for charter schools: finding space ? that's not outer!
It's not that I think it's my job to point out when education-related writing is bubbling over with clich?s; with tear-soaked appeals to care for the children; with flag-waving vapidities about vague, now-nearly-meaningless things like ?international competitiveness?; with trying-to-be-stirring phrases like ?now is the time? and ?we must act for?the future? and suchlike.
Arne Duncan was in Minnesota last week. He talked of a ?sense of urgency.? And he talked about how Minnesota, which has a large achievement gap, really should feel terrible about it and should be doing more to shrink it.
A decade ago, when federal lawmakers on the left and right came together to design and then enact No Child Left Behind, it solidified what was already a ?Washington Consensus? in education policy.
?When you have 92 percent of your employees receiving a bonus, you've got to ask yourself, ?Is it really a bonus program, or is it a program where you're spreading out $42 million?''' * ?Terry Grier, Superintendent of the Huston Independent School District
If there's a Pulitzer nomination for investigative reporting worth making, it's the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the work its team of reporters has been doing on the Atlanta Public ?Schools cheating scandal.?
