Do we care? The New York Times is reporting that Mayor Mike asked Harlem education guru Geoffrey Canada to be his Chancellor?before he picked publishing executive Cathie Black.
It wouldn't be New York if it weren't a bit of a media slugfest.?
In a case the NY Times said would ?propel New York City to the center of a national debate about how student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers,?
The Modern Language Association has a new report out?and it looks like interest in
Perhaps you've noticed, but I haven't been blogging as much as usual lately. That's because I've started tweeting, by which I mean I've started wasting untold hours following thousands of mini-messages on Twitter every day, along with sending dozens of my own.
?Rather than becoming more productive, the opposite has happened in education: over the last 30 years, public schools have focused on strategies that decrease productivity.'' Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-Founder and Partner at Bellwether Education
Front line lessons on character and education
Barely one third of students are prepared for what's next
According to today's NY Times, the city's infamous ?rubber rooms? ? made more infamous by last year's Steven Brill New Yorker article ?
Think your privacy is secure in public schools? You may want to think again. And it looks like money isn't always going to the right places in New York.
Checker's WSJ piece on the recent ???Sputnik moment??? for American education sent my mind reeling and my heart racing.
Reading Checker's piece in today's Wall Street Journal sent Terry into a brief fit of arrhythmia and anxiety.
?The most successful charters [are] protective of the keys to their success because they [are] competing with other charter networks for new contracts.'' * ?Luis Huerta, Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College at Columbia University
As a footnote to the earlier NBC post,?Checker also was?interviewed by the BBC about the PISA results and Shanghai's dominance.
Yesterday, NBC Nightly News featured a segment about the newly-released PISA results, which, as you probably know by
Despite the fact that the Race to the Top program disappeared from the news several months ago (winnings for the last round were announced in late August), there have been lingering questions and issues with the program.
Review: Evaluating Teachers: The Important Role of Value-Added
Teacher training is all about the technology lately?coaching via earpieces and
This piece originally appeared in today's Wall Street Journal (login required).
By happenstance, the same day that Michelle Rhee announced formation of her new education-reform advocacy group, Students First, a committee of our own board okayed a staff (and attorney)?recommendation that we engage in what the IRS calls a ?501 (h)?
Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute tells the Christian Science Monitor that former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee ?very explicitly is setting out to be a political answer to the unions.?
