Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Everyone is holding their breath for tomorrow, refreshing their favorite political sites. Not a lot happening. Politico looks at the student loan debt relief issue – it’s an important issue by itself and then also illustrative of a range of things that will be caught up in transition between administrations. The Times looks at the …
This guest blogpost is by Kevin Kosar, author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education, who edits the Federal Education Policy History website and is a senior fellow at the R Street Institute. Thanks to Andy Rotherham for giving me the keys to Eduwonk this week. I will resist the temptation to post fish …
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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 …
This New York Times debate makes me want to put on some Duran Duran. Are we still really arguing about money this way? If I want a throwback I want it to be something like this. Think possible: Match Beyond. Joe Nathan with some straight talk on charter schools. Matt DiCarlo uses a lot of words to say roughly the …
Education policy’s renaissance man? Richard Whitmire analyzes education policy one day, and then splits a few cords of wood the next. He can also fish (see here and here). His most recent book, about the Rocketship charter network, is here.
I’ve mentioned the work of Kim Farris-Berg and teacher cooperatives here a few times (and she’s also appeared in fish porn). Today, Kim has a guest post with some of the ideas from her new book, Trusting Teachers with School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots: Sometimes we become so accustomed to the way …
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by guestblogger Andy Smarick What’s crackin’, people. It’s been too long. I’m Smarick. I used to be an inveterate blogger and tweeter. I disappeared for a couple years, but now I’m back. Kind of like Bobby Ewing or Kristin Cavallari. To paraphrase Hitch, Rotherham is gone on a week’s vacation, and he left the keys …
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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 …
Andy has fish porn. CRPE has bike porn. -Team CRPE
Next Tuesday I’ll moderate a fun discussion at an Askwith Forum at HGSE on the World Peace movie. The filmmaker (Chris Farina) and the teacher (John Hunter) featured are from Charlottesville, VA. Monday 5/2, in Washington, the Bipartisan Policy Center is hosting what should be a good discussion about education politics and policy (Spellings, Tomalis, …