Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Betsy DeVos’ appearance on the Hill being panned by the critics. Here’s an account of it, particularly the debates about choice. By the way, don’t tell anyone because it will spoil all the fun, but private K-12 schools with a variety of policies in place already get a lot of federal money now… If you want …
Michael Goldstein did a great job here guestblogging last week, he went wild, scroll below to see all that. Last week Bellwether released a new analysis on teacher prep (pdf). Ashley Mitchel and I looked at the new regulations in U.S. News. More from Mitchel on this here. Chad Aldeman on why education advocates have to …
The Times looks at opt-outs and teachers unions. Inside baseball: The way they ID Stand For Children* is delightfully reductionist. Would the story have read differently if they ID’d it instead as an organization that supports expanding access to pre-K education and reforming school finance to send more dollars to poor students? Those are true, …
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Posting will be sporadic over the holiday break. As a reminder, you can get a daily email with any Eduwonk content by subscribing here. There is also an automatic Twitter feed of posts @eduwonk. And I am on Twitter @arotherham so you can follow there, too. Talking with several friends on their way out to get …
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A few years ago I became interested in the question of how the Marine Corps takes average young people and turns them into really competent and effective Marines in a relatively short period of time. There are lessons there, but what I came to realize is that the broader question for education is what lessons …
Is it just us or have a spate of news stories lauded how wonderful the schools in Finland are? It’s almost like the Finnish government sponsored a junket there for education reporters or is waging some sort of P.R. campaign….
ICYMI – the 2024 Eduwonk In and Out list is here. Something for everyone to love and hate. Tim Daly is going deep on the whole Finland education marketing play. We’ve discussed that a few times around here. And don’t say you were not warned. Coming Attractions In spring 1997, the Red River flooded in …
New Bellwether publications on rural education out today, focusing on Colorado but with clear takeaways for other places. In China, tonight U.S. time, the United States Women’s Hockey Team plays Canada for the Gold Medal. It’s actually hard to overstate how dominant these two teams are, and if you follow D1 women’s hockey you see …
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Yesterday I noted that Finland is seeing declines in reading, math, and science achievement. For anyone unfamiliar with education policy debates in the U.S., you might wonder why I was paying special attention to a Nordic nation with a population about the size of South Carolina. But for those who do pay attention to American …
“…ignoring the stop arm of a school bus is incredibly dangerous because children often cross the street as they are entering or exiting the bus.” That’s Alex Spurrier on school bus safety. Lisette Partelow on what to make of the decline in teacher preparation enrollment. Doug Webber has a cool tool to compare lifetime earnings by college major. This …