Anyone who's been following politics lately knows that Senator Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant bomber and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers has become a matter of debate in the 2008 campaign.
You might not agree with this column's political bent, but Stanley Crouch is right to blast away at anti-intellectualism in American life:
We know that the best schools "sweat the small stuff"; they do not overlook untucked shirts, they do not permit poor posture, they do not deign to??hold different students??to different standards of discipline.
Rick Hess and Paul Peterson's annual look at state proficiency standards is out in the latest issu
I was especially disappointed Saturday morning when my two-year-old daughter's "sports class" was canceled because I had just read in T
One wonders: To laugh or to cry? Break down test-score data by the ethnicity of Asian students?
TO: Roy.Romer@edin08.com FROM: mpetrilli@edexcellence.net SUBJECT: The Big One Roy! Guv-nor! How's it going? Eli driving you crazy yet?
Two articles about charter schools in this week's Economist are online here (Chicago) and here (New York).
Kevin Carey mercifully closes our debate, not by addressing ideas but by instead calling my specific impugning of unions "vague" and concluding that I suffer from an incurable anti-union ailment. (Alas, my doctor prescribed Zithromax, but it hasn't worked.)
John Merrow, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, explains that "public education lives in an upside-down universe where student out
From The Tallahassee Democrat: "According to the Florida Department of Education, more students statewide are writing at or above grade level." (The results are here.)
Backed against the wall by recent labor controversies, the United Federation of Teachers has launched a counter-offensive:
Most ed reformers are drawn to their calling by one, or sometimes both, of two considerations: civil rights and economics. The first concern addresses the achievement gap between mostly white, upper-class students and their mostly minority, low-income peers. That this gap exists--and that it's shameful and unacceptable--is undeniable.
Over at the Cato blog , Andrew Coulson reports that New Jersey lawmakers have taken a step toward approving a tax-credit scholarship program, muc
Amidst criticism over her principal firings, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has dismissed the principal of the school that her own kids attend.
The Center for Education Reform released an analysis of 2006 charter school funding , claiming that charters receive 39 percent less funding than district schools, on average. That's a huge, unfair difference, if it's true.
New Jersey education officials have admitted that an African-American vice principal inappropriately punished 15 Hispanic elementary students in Camden.
Yesterday, we noted that Kevin Donnelly, authority on all things related to Aussie-ed, was displeased that Victoria was offering its teachers a massive, across-the-board pay raise decoupled from accountability.
Cleveland can be a tough place, what with its harsh winters and difficult economic times.
No, I'm not referring to this survey from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, though there are some promising tidbits.
Tom Stanley-Becker is an AP dropout. The young man writes today in the Los Angeles Times:
