?To judge by the reaction in the edu-blogosphere, any joy engendered by the announcement of [Joel Klein's] resignation was quickly extinguished when the identity of his successor became known? Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
In case you missed it, or would like to see it again, our October 26 event?Cost-Cutting Strategies and Opportunities for Schools and Districts?will air on C-Span's Book TV on
We wanted to share some highlights from our November 10 event ? School Leadership Matters?which we co-hosted with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress.
It's no secret that being a teacher can be tough enough without worrying about whether you'll end up in the hospital af
Review: Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities
Step 1: Collect data; Step 2: Do something with it
How to get better leaders for America's schools
Looks like teacher salaries aren't the only controversial salaries these days.
The public education world shook yesterday with the news that New York City's Chancellor Joel Klein was resigning.? Handpicked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had taken control of the largest school system in the country in 2002, Klein, an anti-trust lawyer with no education experience, oversaw one of the more dramatic urban education transformations in history.
Fordham Institute?co-hosted a great event earlier today, along with the Rainwater Charitable Foundation and the Center for American Progress. It was entitled ?School Leadership Matters? and it highlighted the release of a new report from Rainwater ?
Today the?American Enterprise Institute will host an event?Moynihan in the White House?sponsored by the Richard Nixon Foundation. It begins very shortly (1:00?3:00 PM) From the AEI invite:
Review: Blurring the Lines: Charter, Public, Private, and Religious Schools Come Together
If we start using electrical brain stimulation to improve math skills, do you think we will increase or decrease America's fear of math??
Review: Education Finance and Policy: Special Issue: Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems
A post on National Review's The Corner blog arouses a months-dormant education topic: vouchers in Washington, D.C.
The United States and India plan to increase their collaboration on higher education. Starting in 2011, for instance, the countries will hold annual summits on the topic.
?There's accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten. They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.?
Here's a story about school districts in Texas offering online credit-recovery courses to any student who fails a class.
Though?New York City's academic achievement gains over the past eight years are still matters of dispute, on Joel Klein's watch the nation's largest city also turned out to be among?its most impressive when gauged by the kinds of structural and policy changes that comprise intelligent, promising?modern-day school reforms.?(New Orleans is the only real rival for that title, along with the Distri
Teachers' unions are feeling the heat, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. Its author, Mitchell Landsberg, writes, ?Teachers unions have a well-deserved reputation for exercising political clout . . . Now, that clout is in question.?
?What we're finding is that, to the extent charter schools do better than traditional schools, it is often attributable to ?creaming' or ?skimming,' excluding special education students, poor students on free-lunch programs, or limited English-speaking children.''
We've just announced that we'll hold an?event (here at Fordham) on Thursday, December 2, entitled ?Are Education Schools Amenable to Reform?? Should be an interesting and lively discussion, part of which will touch on our report, Cracks in the Ivory Tower?
Well, here are a few rather unique stories that caught my eye today. First, some parents are actually hiring ?homework helpers? to monitor their children and make sure the homework gets done. Now, I ?know many parents are stretched awfully thin these days. But hiring someone to say ?do your homework,?
A couple of fine new studies attest to the importance of quality instruction for preschoolers?and the dizzying (?stunning? says one research team) range of bad-to-excellent offerings in today's early childhood programs and centers. ?There is no evidence whatsoever,?
Big Brother is watching?even on school buses. And if you're a brat, don't think you'll be cut any slack.
