Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
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, …
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 …
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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 …
Big thanks to Elizabeth for sitting in the past few days while I was away. I’m sure I speak for most readers when I say that it’s great that she’s landing in our space for her next gig. Clay Risen’s Michelle Rhee profile is now out in The Atlantic. Clay really delivers in vivid form. …
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.
Thanks to Eduwonk for allowing us to kick-off the first week of his guestblogging extravaganza. I hope Andy catches lots of fish, rewrites the U.S. Constitution or whatever it is he does on vacation. I am happy to see that he has not, in recent times, referred to his SO as the eduwife—that always creeped …