Chowderhead Time?

Perhaps Eduwonk should have given the Bush Administration the benefit of the doubt? Word on the edustreet is that the peer review panel for Ed Secretary Spellings growth model pilot program is going to include Stanford’s Rick Hanushek, Ed Trust’s Kati Haycock, CCCR’s Bill Taylor, and U-Penn’s Peg Goertz. Those aren’t four people you’d put on there if you were trying to sandbag this thing. That said, it’s debatable how much this administration heeds the advice of experts…but still a moderately hopeful edusignal.