We've been ruminating about education reform in the motherland recently, especially the ideas of the resurgent Tories and their plan for state-funded ?independent? schools. But as of this morning, the situation in Britain remains unclear.
?If we're going to go to national standards, which I'm very supportive of, I'd rather be at the table deciding what they're going to be than be on the sidelines having them done to us.? ?Winston Brooks, Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent
The Department has released the list of states intending to apply in round 2 of RTT.
Reform legislation is on its way to the governors desk in CT. It wouldn't have happened with the outstanding reform organization ConnCan.
Charles Murray's New York Times op-ed on the merits and limitations of charter schooling coincided quite well with Fordham's event yesterday on the very same topic.
Not long ago, I laid hold of this space to voice my concern that private foundations are getting entirely too palsy-walsy with Uncle Sam—and that he’s doing his ardent utmost to draw them into an intimate embrace.
The New York Times is making a habit of putting charter schools on the front page.
It wasn’t so long ago that reformers were regularly out-hustled by the education establishment. While we were mostly putting out white papers and writing op-eds, they were making campaign donations and marching on statehouses. Unfortunately, our compelling ideas were no match for their raw political power.
Sandra Stotsky, Christian Goering, David JolliffeUniversity of ArkansasSpring 2010
David T. ConleyJossey-Bass2010
Heather Schwartz, Columbia UniversityFord Foundation Project on Choice District GovernanceJanuary 2010
JPMorgan Chase announced yesterday that it is providing $325 million to support charter schools. It appears that the funding will be sent through local partners that help charters access facilities.
This editorial from the LA Times has me scratching my head. It makes it sound like California made a deal with the Department of Education regarding its RTT application. The claim is that ED has agreed to consider CA's application even if the state only has a couple districts signing on.
The issue of parental involvement is vexing for education reformers. Everybody knows that it matters, but nobody really knows how to encourage it. In a free society, how do schools, or governments, make sure that parents provide the love, attention, discipline, nurturing, and care that their kids need to succeed? The short answer is: they can't.
?I don't know of another time when we've done as much education reform in Connecticut as we've done tonight..? ? Connecticut State Representative Jason Bartlett ?Spurred by the Lure of Federal Aid, House Approves Major Education Reforms,? Connecticut Mirror
The campaign continues to dispel the myth that ?stakeholder buy-in? is the key to winning Round Two of Race to the Top.
?We've never had an agreement fully implemented.? ? George Parker, President, Washington (DC) Teachers, on the new DC teachers contract
?We're never going to be like France, where the education minister can look at his watch and tell you what every fourth grader is doing.??Terry W. Hartle, Senior Vice President at the American Council on Education
Some of today's news makes me happy (like Deborah Gist making Time's Top 100, graduation going green
Like Connecticut before it, California learned the wrong lesson regarding its rejected round one RTT application.
This morning Rick Hess, Fordham friend and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, was a guest on the Sound of Ideas show on Cleveland's public radio station, WCPN (tune in around minute 34:00).
?I think this is full of baloney.? ? Andrew Pallotta, Executive Vice President, New York State United Teachers
President Obama announces his Teacher of the Year just as we gear up for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Today, the White House announced the three finalists in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge: Clark Montessori Junior & Senior High School?(Cincinnati, OH) Kalamazoo Central High School (Kalamazoo, MI)
?Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up on what they hear.? Where you draw the line is debatable.? ?Johanna Haver, English-language immersion proponent
PowerPoint is making us stupid, vending machines are making us fat, and students are addicted to texting
PowerPoint is making us stupid, vending machines are making us fat, and students are addicted to texting
