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2007 Winner, Editor's Choice Best Education Blog
-- Performancing.com

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-- eSchool News and Discovery Education

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-- Weblog Awards

Least influential of education's most influential information sources.
-- Education Week Research Center

"unexpectedly entertaining"..."tackle[s] a potentially mindfogging subject with cutting clarity... they're reading those mushy, brain-numbing education stories so you don't have to!"
-- Slate's Mickey Kaus

"a very smart blog... [if] you're trying to separate the demagogic attacks on NCLB from the serious criticism, this is the site to read"
-- The New Republic's Ryan Lizza

"everyone who's anyone reads Eduwonk"
-- Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media's Richard Colvin

"full of very lively short items and is always on top of the news...He gets extra points for skewering my high school rating system"
-- Jay Mathews, The Washington Post

"a daily dose of information from the education policy world, blended with a shot of attitude and a dash of humor"
-- Education Week

"designed to cut through the fog and direct specialists and non-specialists alike to the center of the liveliest and most politically relevant debates on the future of our schools"
-- The New Dem Daily

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-- Education Gadfly

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-- Alexander Russo, This Week In Education

"the morning's first stop for education bomb-throwers everywhere"
-- Mike Antonucci, Intercepts

"…the big dog on the ed policy blog-ck…"
-- Michele McLaughlin, AFT Blog

"I check Eduwonk several times a day, especially since I cut back on caffeine"
-- Joe Williams, fallen journalist, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform

"...one of the few bloggers who isn't completely nuts"
-- Mike Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation

"I have just three 'go to' websites: The Texas Legislature, Texas Longhorn sports, and Eduwonk"
-- Sandy Kress, former education advisor to President Bush and former chairman, Dallas Board of Education

"penetrating analysis in a lively style on a wide range of issues"
-- Walt Gardner, champion letter-to-the-editor writer and retired teacher

"thugs"
-- Susan Ohanian

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EduReading


Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools

Edited by Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham


Why Newsweek's List of America's 100 Best High Schools Doesn't Make the Grade

By Andrew J. Rotherham
and Sara Mead

A Qualified Teacher
in Every Classroom

Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Andrew J. Rotherham,
and Kate Walsh

America's Teaching Crisis

By Jason Kamras and Andrew J. Rotherham

Rethinking Special Education For A New Century

Edited by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew J. Rotherham
& Charles R. Hokanson, Jr.

Making The Cut: How States Set Passing Scores on Standardized Tests

By Andrew J. Rotherham

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Public Service

Heading into the weekend, the holiday season, and the new year, Mr. Sun offers some very sound advice.
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Rocky Mountain High
Here is a must-read on school improvement efforts at a CO school that unpacks a lot of the jargon and shows what can be done.
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Illini Supp. Services
Some buzz about a letter the Department of Education sent to Illinois officials about supplemental services there. Read it for yourself here and then decide what you think, or continue with some of the wild speculation, your choice!
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Forget Dewey, It's Neo!
Reading this (pdf), Eduwonk is baffled about why anyone would question the relevance of the work at colleges of education. Per the article, Eduwonk can think of plenty of metaphors, and they all have something to do with things that failed to change with changing circumstances…
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Three Reports, Two Gems, and One Sandi Irony!

Check out this new report from Jobs For The Future about helping low-skill/low-literacy adults through community colleges. And, while you're at it, check out this report on teacher quality from the Center For American Progress, some pretty good stuff in there. Finally, do not miss this study on the disconnect between the leadership of CBO's and the constituencies they serve... Update: Alert reader JJ points out that there is a good hook for after-school programs buried in the CBO study...

NYT's Winters writes up the latest Gates Foundation initiative, early-college high schools. Also in the NYT, another gem from Freedman.

From San Diego, don't miss this deliciously ironic nugget: Incoming board member and anti-Alan Bersin water carrier Mitz Lee says that the board must shun "special interests whose agendas do not serve our children." Ha! Ha! Ha! Oh wait, she wasn't kidding...The local paper runs this straight, apparently missing the irony. But the editorial board comes down hard on all the shenanigans out there.
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More ABCTE Back And Forth
Stateline writes-on the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence and ABCTE's Madigan takes exception to the report.

Punchline: The folks now saying that ABCTE is too costly because of its high up-front costs relative to the number of teachers certified (including two in this article both of whom should know better...) sure were not saying the same thing when that charge was being leveled against the National Board For Professional Teaching Standards a few years ago...

Madigan is also right on the GAO issue. But, as Eduwonk has said before, the lack of execution from ABCTE is troubling as is the slow pace of state adoption; it can't all be blamed on politics...
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New Newsletter
New 21st Century Bulletin out, you can read it here, and sign up to get it by email free every other week here.
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

A Slew Of Must Reads: Hard Truths In MA, In Politics, In Religion, In Finance, In Language, And In Red State Porn!

Here's a bombshell for Pearl Harbor Day: It's not the kids! New analysis from the Massachusetts Department of Education says that in many of the state's lowest performing schools it's not resources either, it's - gasp - instruction! The Globe story is a good summary, go to the MA DOE for the reports.

Writing on NRO, Dukto's Gary Andres says the education issue helps the Republicans among Hispanic voters right now. Duh. Via Jacobs. (Worth reading though, particularly for recrimination seeking Dems who don't believe the party can just talk its way* out of the current jam...)

NYT's Winter takes a look at school finance in Kentucky and potential lessons for NYC. Wash. Post's Strauss sums-up the evolution-creationism debate. Charles Haynes lays out the reality...

E-rate fans rest easy. It looks like the program will get another Anti-Deficiency Act exemption for another year. Powell is in favor, too.

Oh yeah, new PISA results, cue handwringing.

Yikes!

*Teachers' Unions = 'Learning Suppression Agents'? Might work.
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Monday, December 06, 2004

Tom Wolfe V. US News & World Report

Eduwonk likes a little literary feud now and then and also enjoys the ongoing debate about US News' college rankings. Now you can perhaps get both in one place. Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons has a scathing passage (pp. 514) that's far beyond anything Paul Glastris has lobbed toward the rankings!

Eduwonk can deal with the "fu*k patois" and the rest of Wolfe's mature-audiences-only romp through collegiate life...but pillorying eduwonkery like that, cover my tender ears!

More on the book itself later, but not surprised that it is not a big hit among a lot of folks in higher ed...
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To The Barricades!
This fight over the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has educational implications, too (lefty advocacy groups, to the barricades!) .

Alexander Russo looks at education policy over the next few years here (NCLB foes, to the barricades!).

Voucher proponents are feeling pretty confident in TX (Boardbuzz, to the barricades!).

Sol Stern writes (pdf) in a Fordham essay that New York City's reforms have the curricular piece wrong (whole language proponents, to the berrikades!).
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