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The charter schools--and the bike lanes--will remain
Rhee may move away, but charters are here to stay
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Levers for Change: Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts
A blueprint for how states can break the cycle of ineffective district intervention
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School Districts' Perspectives on the Economic Stimulus Package: School Improvement Grants Present Uncertainty and Opportunity
Districts are iffy on the what and how of turnaround initiatives
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The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study Final Report: The Impact of Supplemental Literacy Courses for Struggling Ninth-Grade Readers
Intensive high school reading programs work--temporarily
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Field Notes: Kafka, the sequel
I knew as soon as we had finished saying the Pledge that it could be an interesting school Board meeting: there were only four members present, which (because we were a 7-member board) meant that we had to have unanimous consent to pass any resolution, including, as we would soon learn, convening a meeting.
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Morning After: How Fenty Lost
There will be a lot of post-mortem's on Adrian Fenty's dramatic fall from grace in D.C.? This is a good one from the Post, which concludes that the mayor ?misread an electorate he was sure he knew better than anyone, ?
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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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Education News Nuggets
Now that Fenty's been ousted, the big question is Michelle Rhee: will she go?
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DC election: The charter schools?and the bike lanes?will remain
It's understandable that education reformers will go out of their way to argue that Michelle Rhee's reforms weren't determinative in Adrian Fenty's mayoral re-election bid.
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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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You'll be sorely missed, Mike Castle
Besides almost certainly forfeiting a Senate seat that the GOP could have?taken in November, Delaware's Republican primary voters yesterday made a colossal mistake when it comes to education policy. Mike Castle is, and for two decades has been, one of American education's wisest, sagest and bravest reformers.
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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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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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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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Rabble Rousers Revisited: A guide for launching state-based education reform advocacy organizations
Pie NetworkSeptember 2010
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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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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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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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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