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,
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,?
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.
What doesn't work when you're trying to save your schools from a budget crisis: buying golf courses and paying for
?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
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).
Well, not quite, but what he did say (in this excellent Columbus Dispatch article on school turnarounds) was almost as preposterous:
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
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
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?
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
Having a boring Friday? Ready for the weekend? Well, you're probably not as bored as this kid.
?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
A cheating epidemic has hit our schools! Maybe it's time to gear up and end this problem.
Congratulations to the high-performing charter schools that received a portion of the $50 million in competitive grants to replicate and expand, as announced
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
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.
This is what I was trying to say in that last post?sort of. Thanks, Jay Greene. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
A deluge at Education Nation can't stop IBM's innovation
Ed professors remain in the clouds. But, their views are starting to change.
A valuable study that asks a worthless question
Rankings based on reform-friendliness? Sounds familiar
In reading Liam's post about idealists being chewed up by the DC culture of inertia and status quo I couldn't help but think of the brilliant Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, ???Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.???
Our little school district just got word that our share of the RttT pie (nearly $700 million in NY) will be $55,000 per year for?four years. ?Wow! But here's the challenge?and it is real and it applies just as much to Cory Booker with his $100 million as to us:?How do we spend it?
While reading Liam's musings this morning??armies of grown-ups who had gone gaga for a certain presidential candidate's mellifluous vapidities about change and hope?
