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Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
The clash between the public and private aims of education
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How To Spend $100 million
While I'm still fielding suggestions on how to spend $55,000 (I'm learning that it's probably best to call it $220,000 over four years), the NY Times is soliciting suggestions about how Cory Booker and Newark schools should spend $100 million.?
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A new start for Head Start?if Congress doesn't get in the way
The Head Start program has needed a radical overhaul for the past forty-five years, i.e. ever since its founding and its near-immediate demonstration that it doesn't do much lasting good by way of readying poor kids to succeed in school.
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Baltimore schools take tentative step in right direction
If ratified by?union members on October 14, Baltimore's new?teacher contract will move the ?Charm City?
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Quotable & Notable
?But even as heavyweight policy folks talked about improving community college outcomes yesterday, high school reforms that could help with that?such as increasing rigor and smoothing the transition to higher ed?didn't even make the radar.? ?Catherine Gewertz, Assistant Editor for Education Week
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Discussing the education profession
Over on National Journal's Education Experts Blog, this week's?discussion?focused on the goals of education professionals and, among other things, cited Fordham Institute's latest study,
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AEI's report on social studies teachers
Last week, our friends at the American Enterprise Institute released an interesting new report, High Schools, Civics and Citizenship, which surveyed public high school social studies teachers across the country.?We at Fordham also released a report recently,
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Education News Nuggets
The old saying ?D=Diploma? looks to be a thing of the past for these New Jersey students.
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What recession?
One of things New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner said yesterday in his RttT discussion was that ?we've never had so much money being devoted to innovation and so little money being available for basic services,?
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Race to the Top: they're off?and crawling!
During an interesting state-wide Public Television teleconference (and, if you click here, you can find it on the world wide web) yesterday, New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner and his Deputy John King offer an interesting preview?of the mechanics of Race to the Top.
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Quotable & Notable
?Movements need heroes and villains, and Weingarten has become an easy target for school reformers who seek to blame public school teachers for the ills of urban education and attack their unions.'' -Valerie Strauss, Correspondent, Washington Post
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Education News Nuggets
What doesn't work when you're trying to save your schools from a budget crisis: buying golf courses and paying for
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Lessons from China: Rethinking small class sizes
Everybody's making cuts. Tight finances are forcing states and districts to reconsider which items belong in the ?vital? category on the budget sheet and which ones can be pared away with little collateral damage. Among the emerging holdouts in the ?vital? column is small class size (in no small part because state law often mandates maximum class sizes).
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Arne Duncan asks schools to find the cure for cancer
Well, not quite, but what he did say (in this excellent Columbus Dispatch article on school turnarounds) was almost as preposterous:
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Education News Nuggets
Kids have lots of opinions about where they go to school these days (especially when there's a chance they could have Tony Danza as their teacher)?but if the current crop i
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A Slow Saturday ? Revisit ?Contest Time?
There are some great suggestions coming in about my September 29 challenge to guess how my little district would (should?) spend $55,000 in RttT funds.? Keep ?em coming. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Getting?and giving?a good education: diversity is overrated; the code, underrated
I have been stewing for more than a week about diversity and excellence?ever since Mike issued his Hubris alert!, warning those who claim they've ?cracked the code?
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Miracle Math
The New York Times is highlighting the hugely successful math program developed in faraway Singapore?whose students consistently score at the top of international math exams.?The program, as the T
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Quotable & Notable
?Educational reform is one of the few issues in the galaxy that can bring the political agendas of President Obama, Gov. Chris Christie, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker into near-perfect alignment.? ?Star Ledger Editorial Board, New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Education News Nuggets
Having a boring Friday? Ready for the weekend? Well, you're probably not as bored as this kid.
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Education News Nuggets
A cheating epidemic has hit our schools! Maybe it's time to gear up and end this problem.
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A guys walks into a bar and the bartender says, ?What'll it be, buddy??
One Alison Stachniak, teacher wannabe, doesn't walk into a bar, but she tells an interesting, if long, story in Teacher about trying to find a job in Chicago and concluding that?Eureka!??charter sc
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Accolades, grant dollars and high-flying charters bypass the Buckeye State
Congratulations to the high-performing charter schools that received a portion of the $50 million in competitive grants to replicate and expand, as announced
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College is a publishing phenomenon. Since its release earlier this year, it has hovered within or near the top 100 books on Amazon.com.
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We Won!
This is what I was trying to say in that last post?sort of. Thanks, Jay Greene. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Ed professors remain in the clouds. But, their views are starting to change.
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It's raining anchormen and education reformers
A deluge at Education Nation can't stop IBM's innovation
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