Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Another illustration of the utility of blogs…gotta give the UFT credit, they do tolerate some dissent on EdWize…they can’t be too pleased with NY Daily News’ front page splash about it though…Headline: Teacher’s Web Rage. A taste: Outraged over proposed contract givebacks, city teachers unleashed their fury yesterday – attacking their own labor boss, Randi …
Couple of notes from readers about recent happenings. From the DC side a dismayed reader writes plaintively… Am I the only one who thinks that there are some people within the education community and the Bush Administration out there who are trying to take advantage of Katrina?Meanwhile, a political type in NYC writes about this …
U.S. News’ Ewers takes a look at the AP debate. Eduwonk Flashback here. Good Noam Scheiber column from TNR ($) talking about poverty: It turns out that poverty, like disaster relief, is one of those problems that demands pragmatism and technical competence rather than ideology. In the 1990s, technocrats in the Clinton administration ramped up …
Per this item Intercepts has more, including the famous second letter…by happy coincidence for the most part the NEA’s regular agenda is just the right agenda for post-Katrina recovery, it’s like a first-aid kit you can take anywhere…And, turns out what the kids on the Gulf Coast need is not a virtual school…it’s vouchers! Who …
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Ed Week writes-up the education angle of the Roberts nomination which is actually pretty pedestrian — there are bigger fish to fry in terms of his legal views and potential impact on the court than his edupolicy thinking. But, there is a buried lede: Just a few years ago NSBA supported his nomination (pdf) to …
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Ed Week’s Jacobson writes-up the AFT’s new campaign to “fix” No Child Left Behind. Good piece, real texture. But isn’t the AFT’s basic problem that they’ve waited too long to publicly get in the game? To its credit, when NCLB was being put together, the AFT put forward some serious ideas about accountability attempting to …
Continue reading “Acronym Orgy! AFT-NEA-NCLB…And, New Boss…Same As The Old Boss?”
NAACP chair Julian Bond went after the Bradley Foundation yesterday during NAACP’s annual convention in Milwaukee. Fair enough, Bradley is hardly a progressive force. Yet their involvement in the Milwaukee voucher program is more complicated than Bond’s caricature. For starters, Bradley spread a lot of money to liberal and left-leaning groups in Milwaukee that also …
You go away for a week and all sorts of things happen. For instance: The NEA announces a new effort to close the achievement gap, notably lacking in particulars, at the same time the NEA president says that No Child Left Behind is “forcing states to spend money they don’t have on tests they don’t …
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John Walton was killed yesterday in Wyoming while flying an ultra-light plane. It’s obviously important economic news, he was one of the wealthiest people in the world and Wal-Mart, love it or hate it, is a major economic force. It’s also educational news. Walton was very committed to parental choice in education, vouchers and charter …