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Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance
Janet Hyde, Sara Lindberg, Marcia Linn, Amy Ellis, Caroline WilliamsNational Science FoundationJuly 2008
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Denver's honeymoon: Over
All hail ProComp!, we once were impelled, for it hath shown that teachers' unions and reformers can work together for good. Not so fast.
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Predicting Success, Preventing Failure: An Investigation of the California High School Exit Exam
Andrew C. Zau and Julian R. BettsPublic Policy Institute of California2008
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The cure for urban schools
It wouldn't surprise me if appreciable, overarching??positive changes in most big-city school districts??occur??only if and when the demographics of??the??big cities in question naturally shift??(emphasis on the word naturally).??Certainly it would be interesting if someone could observe a??met
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Wanna help states help schools?
Every four years, it seems, enterprising campaign staff put out talking points about how their candidate wants to "help" failing schools improve, not just batter them for their poor performance. And this year's rhetoric is no different.
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From the economist (not the magazine)
Over at Marginal Revolution, Alex Tabbarok writes about females and math.
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Learn to earn?
George Leef is no fan of David Brooks's column??in yesterday's New York Times (which we we
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That's the ticket!
"Community leaders on Monday called on students from poorer parts of Chicago to protest inequalities in school funding by skipping the first day of classes." Article here.
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Even Eduwonkette has a bad day every once in a while
I've come to admire the anonymous edu-blogger Eduwonkette, what with her skillful use of Photoshop,
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An opportunity for Texas
Long plagued by high dropout rates amongst Latino students, the Texas Education Agency has been ordered by the U.S.
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Death by browser
If any district is thinking about setting up a career and technical education program for aspiring bike messengers, it should think again. The internet is apparently killing that occupation.
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How to be the best
Want to be the best public school in the nation? Banish all those??who do not hold??at least a B average.
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Who's the greenest of them all?
The New York Times "Education Life" supplement asks that question of America's colleges and
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Right again
Over here, over there, those "right-wing thinktank[s]" are always so spot on. How do they do it? From The Guardian:
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Where extra-curriculars are "extras"
When I wrote in the Education Gadfly a few weeks ago that "in times of budget crunch, school boards are tempted to consider extra-curriculars as, well, extras, frills even,
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Must... create... knowledge
Does the??penchant of universities??for outsized emphasis??on production of new research create professors who shirk??one of their primary duties, namely??to teach undergraduates? I think so.
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Does Education Trust hate high-achieving children?
That's the impression I get from reading Karin Chenoweth's post about
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A new era in virtual education?
Virtual classes may be morphing into entire virtual schools. What is lost and what is gained? How will virtual education change how we define the school experience?
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And in this corner...
The slugfest between Checker, Diane Ravitch, and Randi Weingarten that ran in yesterday's Gadfly is the subject of an item in today's New York Sun.
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Bush ??? blacks
That's what Mona Charen argues in this National Review Online piece,* using No Child Left Behind as Exhibit A.
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More on integration (racial, socioeconomic, etc.)
Interesting to note that liberals Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias have both blogged recently about how socioeconomic and racial integration (the 2008 kind of integration, which seeks to overcome housing patterns; not the 1950s kind, which sought to overcome de jure separation of black and white) won't work.