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Fordham-sponsored KIPP Journey Academy making gains
In 2008 with Fordham as its authorizer, Ohio's first and only KIPP School moved into ?Linden Park, one of Columbus' poorest neighborhoods. The school had high hopes of providing area fifth and sixth graders with an excellent education.?
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A whole new world
From the Core Knowledge blog we learn that ?purists? are ?predictably crying censorship and political correctness?
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Pearls before swine
Every so often some people get the idea that a masterpiece could use a bit of, well, changing, just tweaking, really, and just here and there, and so they go off and make the changes and then claim that what they've really done is made the masterpiece more ?accessible? and so have actually, in changing it, shown it the respect it of course deserves.
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Instead of facing up to the budget crisis, the unions and their friends change the subject
The New Year is shaping up just as I predicted, with Diane Ravitch and the teachers unions criticizing budget-cutting proposals but offering no real alternatives of their own.
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Quotable & notable
?[The charter school] approach could decimate our school system and use our diversity against us.'' ? Gene Maeroff, President of Edison, New Jersey's School Board
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Checker weighs in on tax break for home schoolers
Today's NY Times Room for Debate poses the question, Do Home Schoolers Deserve a Tax Break? The question explores one of the proposals of the new Republicans in Congress ?
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In case you missed it: 7 for '11
Note: This piece originally appeared in the December 22nd Education Gadfly. Love what you see? Sign up to receive the Gadfly in your inbox.
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Unions on the run?
The New Jersey teacher whose public confrontation with the Garden State's Governor in September has become ?a YouTube classic?
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Dear Cathy:
?Monday is Cathleen P. Black's first day of school??so begins a provocative story by Elissa Gootman in the NY Times.?The Times asked some of New York City's ?most respected principals? to give the new Gotham schools Chancellor ?some advice.?
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Peoples' Choice (via Google): Top 20 2010 education stories as of RIGHT NOW!*
Mike missed this for his best and worst?of the best and worst because it's late, as usual.?
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News from New York: Black is good to go
A New York judge dismissed three lawsuits seeking to keep publishing exec Cathleen Black from taking over the reins of the nation's largest public school system.
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Shanghai's secret sauce: Hint?it's not in the Lo Mein
As if we didn't know, the NY Times reveals the secrets to China's recent success in the PISA tests:
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The best and worst of the ?best and worst of? lists
The end (of 2010) is upon us, and edu-pundits everywhere are compiling their ?best and worst? lists for the Year of the Tiger. Here's my run-down of the lists themselves:
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Education News Nuggets
We all know that money isn't everything, but with the faltering economy and shrinking budgets, it's probably a good idea to
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Education News Nuggets
Heads up to AT&T and Verizon: adjust your 2011 revenue projections accordingly, as advancements in technology and State Board of Education guidelines may reduce student cell ph
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Over the falls: Nepotism in Niagara
There's a big fight at the Niagara Falls Board of Education, where it seems that a preferred perk of membership is getting a wife, daughter, son, or other relative a job with the schools.
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Quotable & Notable
?The answer to the inherent difficulty of judging performance is not to simply throw up one's hands and pay anyone who manages to show up for work more often than not.'' * ? Megan McArdle, Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic
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Speaking of cities?-Did someone say CHICAGO?
I could begin this entry in much the same way as my last one, about superintendent types in large cities, because
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Bobbing and weaving in DC?-by way of Detroit
In the education-reform movement there have always been two schools of thought?when there aren't a dozen?about what makes a good reform superintendent.
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Remove ?education? from the name
That's the headline in a Winston-Salem Journal editorial today advising North Carolina legislators to get ?education? out of the lottery, as in North Carolina Education Lottery.
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Quotable & Notable
?Public schools are always given the gift of time. But we can't continue to be given the gift of time if that time greatly impacts the success of students in schools today.? * -Lynn Black, Head of Schools for Hoosier Academies
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Grading teachers?If you can find them
The northeast may be paralyzed by a snow storm today, but teacher evaluation news goes on. ?
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Quotable & Notable
?As the current economic crisis dries up Nevada's budget, leaders should be looking for some streams in the desert. School choice not only would quench their thirst for savings, it also would lead families to an oasis of quality educational opportunities.? *
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The coin of the realm: A plea for curriculum
The new Gadfly has an essay by Robert Pondiscio that must be read.
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Education News Nuggets
Boys may be having trouble learning how to read, but at least we've come up with ?flash mob?
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The fierce urgency of eventually
Here's the Gadfly piece Peter mentioned in his ?Coin of the Realm? post, in full: