Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
The Washington Post Magazine has a quirky feature that chronicles the lives of various people, for instance an aspiring restaurateur or a stand-up comic. Starting yesterday, the current person is Jallon Brown, the principal of a new and controversial KIPP school in MD. And, in the NYT Anemona Hartocollis takes a look at ed schools …
Continue reading “The Adventures of Jallon…And, The Adventures Of David Steiner!”
Regular readers have kept up with the career of maverick David Steiner, now he’s the incoming education commissioner in New York. Here’s a piece that Richard Whitmire and I wrote about a recent Steiner initiative at Hunter College and he did a controversial chapter for this book. Update: Gotham Schools has a long Steiner treatment up.
NYT’s Gootman reports on big special education news there. Two words: Class action. Dan Butin of Gettysburg College challenges David Steiner’s research on education schools in TC Record. Butin’s methods do not completely engage with Steiner’s argument and he, too, seems to advance the argument that syllabi are largely irrelevant to course content. But it’s …
Continue reading “A Little (important) Summer Reading…And, Return of the Steiner!”
David Steiner, the wrongly maligned education professor Eduwonk (and some other bloggers) wrote and wrote and wrote about a few weeks back, discusses his work and responds to his critics in a New York Sun op-ed. Joanne Jacobs has a few thoughts on the whole issue too. Sadly, if recent history is any guide, Steiner’s …
Continue reading “Steiner Strikes Back? Or Return of the Steiner…”
Several readers have emailed to ask exactly what sort of bias and/or rigor David Steiner is getting at in his analysis of education school curricula. The easiest way to find out is to read the study. Short of that, here’s a quick example. This is the suggested reading list for incoming students to Stanford University’s …
Allison Crean-Davis interviews Diana Cournoyer, the Executive Director of the National Indian Education Association. Bellwether was part of a group to win the contract for a National Comprehensive Center, with Westat (the lead grantee), RMC Research, and Academic Development. Read more about that work here. Bellwether also has a new publication out via Pathway 2 Tomorrow highlighting our …
Phillip Burgyone-Allen on school boards. The EdRedesign Lab at Harvard GSE on “Success Plans” for students. Here’s a debate on SEL with Russ Whithurst and Robert Balfanz. Sign of the times or member services? New DQC report on state report cards and some pushback (that doesn’t alter the main takeaways) from CCSSO. Lori Lightfoot’s win in …
A few months ago I wrote a column for TIME asking who is qualified to run a school system and saying the verdict is out on Cathie Black. Well, jury’s back. And the answer is apparently no. Josh Greeman’s take on all this is worth-reading although I think this is more an unforced error for …
Continue reading “Black Out! And She’s Not The Only One…Plus An Edupick For NYS”
Florida’s Race to the Top application is sparking some buzz and what went down in Michigan caught some eyes, too. Now in New York the commissioner there, David Steiner, has put forward an ambitious set of ideas intended to breath some life into the educationally moribund legislature there. Recall that reformer Sam Hoyt’s bill was basically declared …
A few weeks ago NCTQ’s Kate Walsh described some problems with teacher preparation in this report (pdf) which is a good overview of some of the issues and good companion reading to the recent AERA tome on the issue. Yesterday she was back with a very important new study about how teachers are taught to …