Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
At The 74, Hailly Korman and I warm to the idea of Mr. President The Rock. We also like his genuine interest in helping adjudicated youth but in an open letter we urge him to make sure there is as much love as tough in his tough love approach. Off-edu, I review some musical acts, …
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 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.
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 …
Continue reading “A Triumphant Return and Ignominious Firing in 500 Words”
A reader emails: “I keep checking eduwonk to get your take on the LA dustup (that I think marks a real turning point in teacher accountability), but all I see is a dead fish!” Indeed. Just getting back. Big thanks to Jim Ryan, Sarah Usdin & Neerav Kingsland, Becca Bracey, Hae-Sin Thomas, Tim Daly, Victor …
I’m going to take a blogging break for the next two weeks. But some good things lined up in the interim. Next week a bunch of great folks are going to drop by to guestblog, including fly fishing pinup idol Paul Herdman, D.C. Deputy Mayor Victor Reinoso, the Piscalnator, Sarah Usdin from New Schools for …
Even leaving aside the sleazy innuendo about researcher Jane Hannaway* (stay classy NEA!) this National Education Association email (below), from the organization’s executive director, is startling in its tendentiousness (in case you were wondering why there is so much misunderstanding about the research on Teach For America, here’s why…). Other methodologically strong studies confirm what Hannaway found, for instance the Mathematica evaluation of …
Continue reading “When Acronyms Fight The Data Get Trampled: NEA V. TFA & TNTP”
United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has not surprisingly said that he’s open to renaming the “No Child Left Behind Act” something else. Before President Bush, for instance, the Clinton version of the law was called the “Improving America’s Schools Act.” The underlying law is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it’s not going …
Another effort to move past gotcha: Steve Clemons asks a serious question that someone should put to Alaska Governor Sara Palin. And I still want to know about Pebble Mine.