- Ed released its Education Dashboard this past week, offering data on student achievement, teacher assessment, and college completion. While Arne and his team earn an A for transparency and effort, they earn a D for metric choosing and comprehensiveness.
- Singapore’s got the brains. They scored an average forty-seven points higher than the U.S. on the 2009 PISA. According to Tom Freidman, they’ve also got the governing structure—solidified through their two “isms”: pragmatism and eclecticism.
- John Boehner can’t choke back his tears when he talks about American education. And that might be a powerful weapon in his quest to revitalize the D.C. Opportunities Scholarship Program.
- In case Atlanta didn’t provide enough fodder on the perils of local control, Austin has stepped up to deliver more. Thanks to ward politics in the district, a failing school has stayed in operation for four years after being “shut down” (read: “turned around”) by the district. When will we learn?
- What do Deb Gist, Andrew Coulson, Julio Fuentes, and Steve Barr have in common? They all give one-minute interviews on reason.tv to sum up the issues around school choice.
- Gadfly just saw a pig soar by on his morning flight. The Village Voice published an objective, insightful, and lengthy look at Eva Moskowitz’s charter-school efforts in Harlem—not, admittedly, in the Village.
