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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The people who run the Think Tank Review Project have a newish book out: <
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Education Superhighway
Al Sharpton. New show. On TV. Sunday mornings. Talking education. Seriously. ?Liam Julian
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Battling for the beleaguered majority
Last year, for the first time, ?more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees,? writes Daniel de Vise in the Washington Post. ?Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education,?
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Vincent Gray on Michelle Rhee
Vincent Gray, candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., was asked by CNN's John King if he, Gray, were he to be elected, would retain Michelle Rhee as the city's schools chancellor. ?Well, we'll see,? said Gray.
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Quotable & Notable
?What we don't need is more scapegoating of public service workers and their benefits.'' -Matt O'Connor, Spokesman for the Connecticut State Employees Association
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Fordham is lots of things, but hypocrite is not one of them
Dayton Daily News ran two articles yesterday illustrating a frustrating dichotomy when it comes to charter school quality in Ohio, one lifting up the happy fact that eight of the top ten public schools in Dayton are charters and the
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Youngstown needs to think outside the box
Among Ohioans, Youngstown is known as much for its appallingly low academic achievement as it is for being part of the blighted “Steel Valley” that’s lost so many jobs in recent decades.
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Performance -Based Compensation: Design and Implementation at Six Teacher Incentive Fund Sites
Jonathan EckertAugust 2010
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If you're still debating on whether "I love mom" tattoo is a good idea...
Apparently if you’re a college professor with a tattoo there’s a good chance that you’ll be loved by your students. According to a recent psychological study – as featured on the NYTimes’ Freakonomics blog, students believe that pro
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Arcadia and Vanlue discuss school district merger
In November, voters in two tiny Hancock County communities will go to the polls and decide if they want to investigate the possibility of merging their equally small school districts.
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Bright spots in urban education: 16 high-performing schools
Each year, we analyze the academic performance of schools in Ohio’s Big 8 cities. We examine things like the number of kids in schools rated A, B, C, D, or F by the Ohio Department of Education, the number who attend schools that meet (or fail to) value-added gains, academic performance over t
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Rabble Rousers Revisited: A guide for launching state-based education reform advocacy organizations
Pie NetworkSeptember 2010
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Quality must trump quantity when it comes to new charter schools
With more than 300 charter schools serving nearly 100,000 children, Ohio is known for its significant school choice market. Two of its cities (Dayton and Youngstown) are in the top ten cities nationally in terms of charter-school market share.
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Heartland on Charter Segregation
Nice letter about the charter segregation issue from Robert Holland of the Heartland Institute. ?Peter Meyer
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It's TIME for Education
I'm not sure how many people still read Time magazine, but the venerable weekly seems to be doing better than Newsweek. (Disclosure: I once worked for Time.)
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Throw the Bums Out
Sam Dillon's story entitled ?Racial Disparity in School Suspensions? in this morning's NY Times brings to mind the time that our elementary school went into lockdown when a rubber knife was discovered in a first-grader's lunch box.?
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Education News Nuggets
From banning hugs to allowing breakfast in class, new policies make me wonder: are these really the changes we need?
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Oh, great
As if Asian countries (and Asian authoritarian island city-states) weren't already whooping the U.S. in all categories educational, now they'll have Yale. ?Liam Julian
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Where is Obama?
?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.?
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Quotable and Notable
?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
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Here Come the Adequacies!
Sam Dillon's New York Times story from last Friday seems to have flown under the EduRadar.? And it shouldn't have.
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Testing Testing Testing ? It's Good For You
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,?
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Memo from the AFT
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.
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The illuminative Colbert King
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.?
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Quotable & Notable
?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
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Education News Nuggets
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
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Austan Who?
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.