Fordham's new report, Are Bad Schools Immortal?, shows the folly of school turnaround efforts ??? only 1.4 percent of district schools and less than 1 percent of charters that have undergone turnaround efforts have done so successfully.
Review: The 2010 Broad Prize: Thirty Large Urban School Districts Show Better Relative Academic Performance Than Their States for African-American, Hispanic, or Low-Income Students
This is the kind of story that makes you appreciate the serendipity of the morning newspaper: The education sector, and especially the School Construction Authority, has become big business in the world of New York City real estate.
Want to know what 2011 will bring to the field of education reform? I'm no fortune teller, but I'm happy to offer these educated guesses.
In an editorial this morning on Andrew Cuomo's tax-cap proposal (see background from Peter Meyer here and
Think your classroom is safe? Perhaps not, according to the EPA. And if you're not a fan of NCLB, here are the parts that should be ?left behind?.
?It's not a lack of new initiatives, it's too many initiatives, and no sense of what's working.'' -Robert Manwaring, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Sector, on school reform efforts
While some schools struggle with teacher absences, other schools focus on student absences?financial i
In my previous post about the property tax cap proposed for New York State, I neglected to mention a new report by the New York State School Boar
In their clear-headed if ominous essay, ?A Warning for All Who Would Listen,? in Stretching the School Dollar, James Guthrie and Arthur Peng point out that the ?hundred-year era of perpetual per-pupil fiscal growth? is over.
Central Falls High School, the embattled Rhode Island school that made headlines this past spring when the district's superintendent and school board attempted to fire all the teachers and school administration, has
?The effectiveness of a teacher is far and away the single greatest determinant in closing the shameful achievement gap.? * Christopher D. Cerf, Incoming Education Commissioner of New Jersey
Isn't it supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year? Apparently not for everyone.
My friend Barry Garelick has a great take on the meaning of the recent American scores on the PISA tests.?
The Education Next polls are still open.? You get to choose from a list of key education events chosen by Hoover's Koret Task force.
According to an Alabama Press-Register report, neither schools nor students nor even teachers were the big winners from the state's education stimulus dollars. That accolade goes to Alabama's inmates and its prison system. And it was all perfectly legal.
This email landed in my inbox over the weekend. I know it's a ?pitch,? but still, it's a little over the top, don't you think? And an eight page spread of never-before-seen photos? Education reform has really gone glitzy. Dear Mike,
?Everyone went to school, so everyone thinks they are an expert, but they don't understand how hard it is to be a good teacher.'' * Christopher Cerf, nominated to become New Jersey's next Education Commissioner
The foreword to our Tracking and Detracking report (December, 2009) is quoted prominently in a recent Chicago Tribune editorial.
In what may be a perfect example of a hard case making for bad law, the Department of Justice, according to the Associated Press, is suing a suburban Chicago school district for not letting a Muslim middle school teacher make a pilgrimage to M
One-time NYC deputy schools chancellor Christopher Cerf has been appointed commissioner of education for New Jersey. Not a surprising choice, given Governor Chris Christie's determination ?to remake the Garden State's schools.
Jay Greene's kerfuffle with the New York Times' education reporter Sam Dillon is fascinating because Times reporters rarely engage their critics.
Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of D.C.'s public schools, told an audience at the Manhattan Institute on Wednesday that ?her appointment?[as D.C. schools chancellor]?three years ago was met with nearly identical opposition to that being faced by incoming New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black,?
Chris Cerf, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor, will be the new education commissioner of the state of New Jersey. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
While Cathie Black spends a day working as a substitute teacher and opens a twitter account, students in Oregon get a
?She's shown in her experience in business that she can run a multibillion-dollar organization, that she can turn something around, so I don't think her lack of experience in education disqualifies her [Cathie Black].? * Michelle Rhee, Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
Still stressed out about final exams? Worried that more college isn't a cure-all?
Adding to Liam's Tough Time for Tenure post, I wanted to call attention to a few more details, per the Times' t
