Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
This New York Times article on the Democratic divide on education and what it portends for Hillary Clinton is pretty boilerplate (and if you think it reads like it was written a few years ago don’t miss the correction) except for one quote: “I think it will be different than the Obama administration in the …
The struggling United Federation of Teachers charter school in New York City, launched with great fanfare by Randi Weingarten, is closing part of its operations in the face of continuing struggles – and potential action by its authorizer. Background on all this over the years here.
The other day Eduwonk praised the UFT in New York for considering opening a charter school. The New York Post vehemently disagrees. They argue that –at best– the school would be a Potemkin village and at worst would be inappropriately construed by the media as validating current teacher contracts in New York (which most observers …
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Big doings on the charter school front the past few days in Gotham. Yesterday, SUNY’s Board of Trustees decided to postpone consideration of the United Federation of Teachers’ charter school proposal. This NY Post editorial ran on Monday and NY Post partisans were claiming a scalp. Todays Post ed here and NY Daily News ed …
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I discussed pandemic schooling with some fantastic Texas principals in this webinar hosted by the Bush Center. This push, in many places but perhaps most high profile in NYC, to put a lid on remote learning for the fall seems ill-conceived. The fall will be unpredictable, there could be disruptions, there will be hesitancy and …
It’s Friday and Kevin Kosar caught a trout, but you have to go to Twitter to see it. Scroll down this page for several edujobs that are open now. UNC honors Preston Smith and their magazine talks with him. Marilyn Rhames on the pro-voucher reality for a lot of parents. Yesterday I mentioned the unique and tacit …
New Whiteboard Advisors Education Insider survey out (pdf). Fun look at who the next Secretary of Education might be in a Clinton or Trump administration. Also a lot on higher education policy and testing and a look at what to expect in education attention for the rest of the year. John Troy on why he …
Interesting Matt Levine look at this pension fees issue in New York. You get some of this gold, “Surely if you yourself confess that you are acting “insane,” you are not doing your duties as a trustee? If I were a New York City pensioner I’d be a little disturbed to see my trustees running around calling …
A few years ago Richard Whitmire and I noted that the teachers’ unions had lost the media with outsized promises and a lot of doublespeak in a WSJ piece that turned out to be mostly right. How much that matters in today’s fractious political and media world is debatable but today most of their “good” media is …
Wayne Barrett (The Nation, Village Voice) writing in the New York Daily News: …Democrats like [Howard] Dean and others have seen through the “privatization” trashing of charters by [Diane] Ravitch and the union, recognizing that there’s no structural difference between the non-profits that run public school charters and the ones that operate Head Start, day care …