Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
The way this Dennis Hastert indictment is written strongly hints at a dark education angle to it. Weeby on Christie. Chad Aldeman on high school graduation rates going up. Even discounting for some graduation scams bumping numbers something positive is happening here. Have been meaning to note the elections last week in California – LAUSD …
States and school districts don’t do a great job communicating about, or even being transparent about, student assessments. A cynic might say that’s by design. Recovering psychometrician and Bellwether analyst Michelle Croft on the parent side of that. In last week’s fish porn post, I was remiss in not pointing out that if things like …
Cute picture alert: This mini-perch was caught by Julie Corbett’s almost-3-year-old son in Lake Champlain (Vermont side) a few weeks ago: Click for more Friday Fish Pictures. –Guest post by Chad Aldeman
Allison Davis on using evidence and building an evidence base. Come for the interesting content, stay for the goofy pictures. NCEE is socializing the chart on the right, it’s an interesting generational issue for the US relative to some other countries. A lot of kids are bored in school and a lot are stressed out, …
Another Bellwether Education blog training coming in February. Applications due in December. More here. Last week I offered some thoughts in U.S. News & World Report on lecturing Trump voters that were really about the rampant assumption of monocausality since the election. I voted for Clinton. I’m no fan of Trump. But all of his …
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 post below is by guest blogger, Derrell Bradford. I was looking for this picture of a koi I used to have but I could not find it. Back in the day I used to think koi were just goldfish—old and grown up—but I have since been told that isn’t true. I don’t really take …
Quick primer to understanding most education debates. If you look at them from the perspective of, “is this good or bad for kids, or does this matter to kids?” you’ll constantly be baffled by what is going down. If, by contrast, you look at it through the lens of public relations – is this good …
Too much going on to have it all here so check out the curated roster of news from around the sector at RealClearEducation. Scroll down this page for edujobs (and fish pictures) and don’t forget we’re hiring for a communications manager at Bellwether. Kaitlin Pennington with a smart take on 2016 teacher policy debate. School …
Some news at the Dep’t of Education today. Duncan’s leaving at a low-point media wise but to judge his tenure you have to look back the entire sweep and he was definitely a consequential secretary and put in place some work that should pay dividends for kids down the road. Big loser here is the …