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Critical thinking... for adults
A rash of hacking statements of late, made by adults, makes me wonder who among our edu-cators and -crats need a refresher course in critical thinking skills.
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Comparability of State and Local Expenditures Among Schools Within Districts: A Report From the Study of School-Level Expenditures
Weighted student funding, anyone?
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Charter Schools
CRPE's Robin Lake on "Better Choices"
Robin Lake looks at the lessons from the Fordham and CEE-Trust policy brief.
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Chris Cerf takes on education governance
View the video from NJ acting Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf's lunchtime keynote address at the Fordham-CAP "Rethinking Education Governance" conference.
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Taking a hard look at local control
Watch the video from the second session of the December 1, 2011 Fordham-CAP "Rethinking Education Governance" conference.
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Charter Schools
Charter incubation as a strategy for improving the charter school sector
Fordham's Terry Ryan and CEE-Trust's Ethan Gray explain the potential of the charter incubation model and the characteristics of incubators.
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Lackluster NAEP results from Cleveland show that reforms aren't working (yet)
This morning the NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) results for Mathematics and Reading were released. The TUDA results look specifically at 21 large urban school districts that volunteered to have their NAEP scores reported separately (three of which participated for the first time; see the complete rundown of cities here).
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Three ways states can support instruction and common core implementation
How states can ensure that the common core standards translate to clear student achievement outcomes.
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Why shame is never enough
Fostering efficiency in education will take more than transparency, as Montgomery County demonstrates.
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The challenges of education governance
Check out the footage from the first session of December 1st's Rethinking Education Governance conference.
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White Hat Management's founder says he's through bailing out the charter-management company
White Hat Management, a major for-profit charter school operator, is fighting for its life. At least that?s the story told in a recent memo by founder David Brennan. Brennan told employees of White Hat that his family has committed over $50 million to sustaining White Hat, but that they simply cannot afford to do so anymore. Their financial commitment will only see the company through 2013. Brennan?s memo also pointed out that White Hat has not made a forecast for the bank in the last 5 years, and in order to start to turn things around they must produce in excess of $2 million every year.
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What's not to like about Newt's education proposal?
Newt Gingrich's controversial comments in support of letting students work at schools may not be so crazy after all.
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Charter Schools
Innovative Arizona school choice program faces legal challenge
Guest blogger Stuart Buck explains the virtues of the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship program and the legal obstacles it faces.
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ED: poor kids get fewer resources
The Department of Education's new study explains how the U.S.'s poor allocation of resources hurts disadvantaged children.
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UK teachers strike over pensions
Two-thirds of schools in the UK were closed for a day recently as teachers went on strike over proposed changes to pensions.
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CCSS implementation and the slow-moving train to Assessmentville
Common Core assessment still remains largely unsettled.
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Which came first, development or autonomy?