"Least influential of education's most influential information sources."
-- Education Week Research Center
"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
"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!"
-- Mickey Kaus
"a very smart blog... this is the site to read"
-- Ryan Lizza
"everyone who's anyone reads Eduwonk"
-- Richard Colvin
"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
"peppered with smart and witty comments on the education news of the day"
-- Education Gadfly
"don't hate Eduwonk cuz it's so good"
-- 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
"I check Eduwonk several times a day, especially since I cut back on caffeine"
-- Joe Williams
"...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
"penetrating analysis in a lively style on a wide range of issues"
-- Walt Gardner
"Fabulous"
-- Education Week's Alyson Klein
"thugs"
-- Susan Ohanian
Smart List: 60 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education
Wow. A man famous for getting on people’s nerves did something good huh? What are the odds of that?
How about somewhere between slim and none?
Hopefully we’ll begin to see many of the important changes that teachers have lobbied for for many years: fully qualified teachers in every classroom, health care for all children, and community schools with social supports for our poorest children.
Is it fair to say that No Child Left Behind, signed into law in Jan 2002, suffered from a lack of followup? Where has Baye/Bush/Lieberman been?
The current Democratic school reform, typified by Arne Duncan, is robust, exciting, and fundamentally progressive?
Gee, if the emphasis on standards, teacher accountability, pay-for-performance and charter schools is what passes for progressive solutions these days then we’re fucked.
What Eli said. With classroom numbers and student teacher ratios going up, teacher salaries not keeping pace with the cost of living, and cut backs in programs aimed at the most vulnerable students needing the most help to succeed, I don’t see much in the way of progressive change in K 12 education.
And don’t forget the crap work that Evan Bayh has performed for higher education…
Mr. Fiscal Responsibility is all for leaving $80 billion higher costs for studen loans and lower availability to fund them so that Indiana private student loan originators can reap the benefits.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Bayh_sides_with_finance_industry_on_student_lending.html
Evan Bayh – pair him with Lieberman in the integrity when they pay me for it column.