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Eager to learn?
"Indiana girl clocked at 118 m.p.h. held on DUI" She allegedly told cops she was late for school.
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Howard Fuller and Harriet Tubman vs. Rick Hess and Sol Stern
I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona today (projected high: 99 degrees) for an education reform summit hosted by the State Policy Network, the Alliance for School Choice, and the Friedman Foundation.
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Piling on
The Heritage Foundation's Dan Lips writes today, on National Review Online (where "Education Week" continues), more about the Republican eschewal of No Child Left Behind.
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Carrots come in different colors
Greg Forster thinks (at least I think he thinks) that the difference between rewards and bribes is purely semantic. But semantic distinctions are born to relate and describe real distinctions and degrees, no? Otherwise, we'd have but one word (briwards, maybe) for the concept in question.
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On the trail
Checker goes in search of those elusive words, No Child Left Behind, and returns empty-handed.
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Double standards
Joanne Jacobs??takes aim at the disparities between charter and traditional public school performance standards. She writes,
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How's your number sense?
Did you routinely win the estimate-the-weight-of-a-pumpkin contests at the state fair? Always know how to sneak on an already too crowded train? You may be stupendous at math!
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She's smarter than a fifth grader (thank goodness)
My doubts were unfounded. Kathy Cox, the state superintendent of Georgia, is officially smarter than a fifth grader and is $1 million richer to prove it. The money will go to three special needs schools in her home state.
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Obama takes off the gloves
The Obama campaign has released a new advertisement??that hits John McCain on education:
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Obama talks education
Earlier, Barack Obama was talking about schools??in Dayton, Ohio. (He??did so in??Dayton because it's Fordham's hometown, no doubt.) AP and Campaign K-12 cover his speech.
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Obama's proposals: crowd-pleasing distractions
Today's much ballyhooed Obama education speech (delivered near my hometown of Dayton) and accompanying "fact sheet" contained more than a few good ideas about where U.S. education should go in the years ahead. But as an exercise in specifying what would actually happen??to U.S.
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Re: Obama talks education
A post from guest blogger and Fordham writer and researcher??Emmy Partin.??
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Do two left turns make a right?
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Hoo-ree for Rhee's 'Plan B'
I failed to fulfill my promise to write a post about Michelle Rhee's appearance before our reporter roundtable on Friday, and now the Washington Post's B
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Reader contest winner: Mia Munn
Thanks for all of you who wrote in with ideas for Mike Lach about how he can reinvigorate Chicago's social sciences curriculum.
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Back to school
It's "Education Week" over at National Review Online. Mike and Amber get in on the fun.
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To the moon!
Paul Tough's New York Times article, which Mike referenced, is really something. It's fascinating to watch stale education ideas rejuvenated, and to hear their proponents tout their supposed freshness.
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Re: McCain on education
It's no surprise that McCain failed to utter the four dirty words ???No Child Left Behind???
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Re: Poor Rheesoning
Perhaps we can shed light on Rhee's obvious confusion of KIPP and American dollars with the following factoid, also revealed this morning at the Reporter Roundtable: Michelle Rhee pays her children to do their chores .
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Welcome Fordham Fellows 2.0
We're thrilled to introduce the second cohort of Fordham Fellows and the reborn Fordham Fellows blog to the edusphere.
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Where would the Obama or Palin girls go to school?
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Crew cut
Seems that Miami's superintendent, Rudy Crew, who starred on the cover of our Leadership Limbo report (though I've long suspected that Crew, second from left, is actually flouting limbo rules and bolstering himself with Arne Duncan-obscured hands),
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Poor Rheesoning
I'm told that Michelle Rhee, who moments ago wrapped up a "Reporter Roundtable" here at the Fordham offices (I knew I noticed a soft glow emanating from our conference room), defended her plan to pay students for right behavior by pulling out the KIPP Card.
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Actually, Palin did talk about education
She wasn't forthcoming on the policy side, but she did say something, at least. Talking about her newest child, Trig, who has Down Syndrome, she opined: And children with special needs inspire a special love.
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Teachers union bashing, a bipartisan sport
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