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Oh, brother
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says: ?Bullying is a problem that shouldn't exist.? Profound. Just wait until he takes on starvation, rape, and genocide.
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Criticizing Jews no longer kosher, says ED
The U.S. Department of Education has announced, ?as part of a guidance on bullying, that Jewish students who are harassed at schools enjoy the protections of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,? according to an exultant press release from the American Jewish Committee.
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Education News Nuggets
NJ teachers don't have very nice things to say about Chris Christie behind closed doors, which Christie's not exactly thrilled about?
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Quotable & Notable
?There's not a hint in the Constitution that we ought to have it, and there's not a shred of evidence that it's done anything to improve education.'' Representative Roscoe G. Bartlett on the Department of Education
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Unraveling constant school spending growth in the Buckeye State
In today's Ohio Education Gadfly former Ohio lawmaker Jeff Jacobson and I share findings from our review of Ohio's school funding system.
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Being honest about how tough ed reform is
I know I'm the last one to the party on this one but I just got around to seeing Waiting for Superman this weekend.
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Columbus City Schools should be ashamed
As an authorizer of two charter schools in Columbus, we've heard our fair share of stories about the district not being very cooperative with them (in the way of busing, facilities, etc.).
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Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card
Bruce Baker, David Sciarra, Danielle FarrieSeptember 2010
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Move over Bill Nye, the Dean of Invention has arrived
How do you attract great principals to failing schools? One North Carolina district believes it has found the answer.
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New Fordham report weighs options for governance of Common Core standards
Now that Ohio and most other states have adopted Common Core’s English Language Arts and math standards, big-picture questions loom: who will be in charge of governing and “owning” these standards ten years down the road? Who will be in charge of implementation?
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High-flying schools starting to feel the pressure of NCLB, to what avail?
With No Child Left Behind’s 2014 deadline for all students to reach proficiency looming on the horizon, and federal action to revamp the act seems unlikely anytime soon, state accountability systems, including Ohio’s, are ratcheting up expectations for public schools.
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"Reform dollars" for education are dwarfed by status quo spending
The gravity of Ohio’s $6-8 billion dollar budget hole and its unavoidable impact on K-12 education is about to hit h
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Embrace the mess
There has been much talk on this?blog and elsewhere about the movie Waiting For ?Superman' and its promotion of the idea that we know ?what works? in education.
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Even ed profs think ed school accreditation is lacking
Last week, the two national accreditation bodies for teacher preparation programs?NCATE and TEAC?voted to standardize their accreditation processes and ultimately merge into a single organizati
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Core Knowledge v. Sir Ken
Pondiscio and Willingham team up to give?new You Tube education phenom ?Ken Robinson a?good going-over.? Don't miss. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Gray on schools
Vincent Gray, the next mayor of the nation's capital, talks education with Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Build a better classroom
Slate wants to know: How would you design the 21st-century classroom? And on Monday, November 8th, the online magazine will host a panel discussion on the topic at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
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Dump ED in '10
It's not just Rand Paul, who's running to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, who wants to abolish the federal Department of Education.
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Quotable & Notable
?What we teach in school should not be dependent on the political leanings of a governing body.? Rick Doll, Superintendent of Lawrence, Kansas school district
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Interview with Mike P.
Our Mike Petrilli talks to EducationNews.org about what's next for common education standards. Check out the interview?. ?Amy Fagan
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You know it's a bad idea
. . . when Crash is on the teacher-training syllabus. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Cuomo to Unions: Be Nice ? or Else!?
Though the headline had it that New York State gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo ?Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions,? what he actually tells the New York Times is much kinder, gentler.?
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A Carey Murray slurry
Kevin Carey, Education Sector's policy director, regularly advertises that he has very little if any respect for Charles Murray, the political scientist who famously coauthored The Bell Curve in 1994.
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Education News Nuggets
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
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Ed profs back tenure reform, but not performance pay
Education professors are in step with some current reform initiatives targeted at improving teacher quality, but not others, according to our new survey of teacher educators.?
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Cracking the code: ?Tough as nails?
Sure, it's selective, but this run-on-a-shoestring school for poor kids still gets the job done. ?Give me one good reason?okay, I'll take two or three?why this isn't it replicable and scalable?
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Quotable & Notable
?Everybody who acts like we can tinker with the state monopoly on education and get radically better results is working to ensure that our present system survives to inflict its dysfunctional results on another generation of Americans who cannot afford its failures.''
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More: Charter autonomy in the RTTT world
Jason Brooks, research director at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, amplifies on the issues that his boss, Tom Carroll, raised with
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A metaphysical problem: Does RTTT undermine autonomy?
Tom Carroll continues to chew on the question of RTTT and charter school independence, amplifying his