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Nasty!
Hooray! It's National School Lunch Week! But is?that worth celebrating? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Vincent Gray: Broader? Bolder?
From the Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog we learn that Washington's mayor-to-be, Vincent Gray, ?believes a student's family life is at least as important?
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Well done
Nelson Smith, senior adviser to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, condemns Diane Ravitch's latest anti-charter-school screed: I can no longer tell whether Ravitch's?distortions are willful or whether she's just too busy Tweeting to check facts.
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A tale of two charters
Bellwether Education's Andrew Rotherham writes about charter schools in his Time magazine column; and Diane Ravitch writes about charter schools on the Education Week bl
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Good news
Looks like Teach for America will be heading to South Carolina. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Checker and Mike discuss Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee's resignation is big news, and Checker and Mike shared their thoughts with major news outlets. Below are some of their quotes on the matter. Checker in Bloomberg News:
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Quotable & Notable
?Will Gray stand up to them [the teachers union]? He will need to have the people behind him. If people don't want to see reforms rolled back, people need to make sure the next mayor knows very clearly that they want these reforms to continue, that they expect them to continue.?
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Bumping Human Resources: Giving Principals More Say Over Staffing
Principals lack hiring-power they need
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Cutting to the Bone: How the Economic Crisis Affects Schools
Wrong conclusions from the right information
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Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform
A behind-the-scenes of the portfolio management model
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Classroom feng shui
This morning on Twitter I saw a link to the ?Top 50 US School Reform Blogs? which includes Flypaper and many of our favorites (go check it out!). After scanning the top education blog list, if you're feeling up for it ?
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Surprise, Surprise: Rhee Resigning
According to the Post, it's happening today. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Rhee-ality check
It's no surprise the Michelle Rhee is stepping down as Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. Advocates of ?mayoral control? in education have always argued that the arrangement provides a clear line of accountability, straight through the mayor's office. Adrian Fenty lost; his schools chief is out. Simple as that.
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D.C. residents on Rhee
The title of a new Washington Post video is ?Mixed reaction to Rhee resignation.? Mixed? It's the same reaction: thank goodness she's gone. And, frankly, very little that the interviewees say makes logical sense or is even factual.
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Ali's understanding
What do we talk about when we talk about civil rights? According to Russlynn Ali, director of the U.S.
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Quotable & Notable
?The ?Bad Teacher' is an effective myth, a convenient scapegoat for ignoring these greater systemic problems that would require real substantial reform.'' Adam Bessie, Assistant Professor of English at Diablo Valley College
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Don't exploit tragedy to make your policy point
When I first heard the news about a Los Angeles elementary teacher killing himself, I cringed. First and foremost I was saddened.
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Opportunities abound with online learning
This week Fordham's newest board member Caprice Young is spending some time in Ohio and her visit could not be timed more perfectly.
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Voucher student performance: In search of the best analysis
For five years, the EdChoice Scholarship Program has enabled students to escape low-performing schools (those rated D or F for two out of the last three years) in Ohio for, presumably, greener pastures in private schools. Fourteen-thousand students, the maximum allowed by state law, in low-performing schools are using this publically funded voucher to attend private schools of their choic
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Re-Evaluating Evaluations and Other Miscellany
Students who complain their teacher doesn’t know what he’s talking about may have a point, according to a new study by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
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Next Generation Charter Schools: Meeting the Needs of Latinos and English Language Learners
Melissa Lazarín and Feliza Ortiz-LiconCenter for American ProgressSeptember 2010Charter schools that make it their mission to reach the most underserved students must not forget the needs of Latino students and English Language Learners (ELLs). This is topic of the Center for American Progress’s latest report.
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Teachers: "New contract higher priority than Race to the Top"
The teachers union in a suburban Columbus district has pulled out of Race to the Top, putting the district at risk of forfeiting almost a million dollars ($960,000) in RTTT grant funding and many of the reforms that would come with it.