Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
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 …
Sound smart this weekend by working these seven charter school facts into your game, thanks to Sara Mead. Who ate what? When? $200,000 is a lot of Subway. This is an easy target. But I’d be interested in some comparable data, Chicago Public Schools are a labor-heavy $5.7 billion concern (and that’s just operating budget). …
I’m taking next week for family but Sara Mead will be here to inform and amuse. In addition to being a leading analyst on pre-k policy, Mead is also an appointed member of the District of Columbia Public Charter Schools Board and an expert on charter school policy (and she and I have worked on …
You hear some grumbling from conservative types that the TV show “The West Wing” is just a front for liberal issues. Eduwonk doesn’t watch it (preferring shows like this) and has no idea if that’s at all valid. But, for what it’s worth, they’re giving the Center for Education Reform, which hardly qualifies as a …