?The president should have said something in support of Fenty? according to NPR commentator Juan Williams, who referred to Barack Obama's silence on Washington, D.C.'s mayoral Democratic Party primary race. D.C. Councilman Jim Graham believes that the president, had he given Adrian Fenty his public backing, ?could have won the election for Adrian.?
?I am convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game-changer in public education.? - Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
Sam Dillon's New York Times story from last Friday seems to have flown under the EduRadar.? And it shouldn't have.
The New York Times' Week in Review on Sunday followed up on its Science Times story from last Tuesday, ?Forget What You Know About Studying,?
The forthcoming documentary Waiting for Superman is ?inaccurate, inconsistent, and incomplete,? according to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. She makes several fair points . . . and, of course, several trite ones.
Whitney Tilson, a hedge fund manager who writes a widely read education blog, and Kevin Carey, the policy director at Education Sector, have both eviscerated Washington Post columnist Colbert King for his recent piece, ?Time for Rhee to go.?
?How can we steer a course back toward our founding principles in education? The first step is to send dollars and decision-making authority out of Washington and back to states, localities, and ultimately, parents.'' -Jennifer Marshall, Director, Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation
With the President interrupting class time next week, and students becoming more and more distracted, how can we expect students to take advantage of the little time they do have i
The headline in the Washington Post was ?Austan Goolsbee: triathlete, improv comedian, economist.? Given the state of the economy, Obama's new Chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers might need the improv comedian talents?more than anything.
As a child, my parents would threaten: If your toys are on the floor, they end up in the trash bin.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (known as P-21) announced the other day that it has entered into a ?strategic management agreement? with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) under which the chiefs will house the P-21 team and provide them with diverse management services.
?It may sound nuts to talk about fixing school finance systems when districts are struggling to make payroll, but actually, a tough recession may be the only opportunity to do it.'' ?Jacob E. Adams Jr., Professor at the Claremont Graduate University
My jaw did the proverbial drop when I read this opening sentence in a front page story in Sunday's Albany Times Union: Albany's charter schools have created a second school system that is almost entirely segregated.
?When it comes to reforming a failed school system, you either go monomaniacal or go home.'' ?WashingtonCityPaper.com Editorial Board, with HT to Linda Perlstein
Urban and suburban students must learn together to close the achievement gap
Since our special Ohio Education Gadfly last month about changes to Ohio’s value-added analysis methodology, we’ve received
How to study effectively? Maybe we could pick up a tip or two from the Russians. But careful ?
In the name of boosting academic performance and giving struggling kids a better shot at succeeding in first grade, California appears to be headed down the slippery slope to universal preschool, never mind that state voters rejected such a plan when Rob Reiner got it onto the ballot in 2006.
They were talking education (Race to the Top, evaluating teachers) this morning on the Diane Rehm Show. The U.S.
?Will making the teachers better and giving them more support do the trick? Or should we focus on improving the students' attitudes and habits before they ever get to school, by giving their families more support?'' ?Jay Mathews, Columnist at the Washington Post
That's right. As more states across the country adopt the Common Core education standards (it's up to about 37 now), the conversation continues.
