More Katrina
Time looks at the education issue.
Using Good Judgment…And Irony In NYC…Updated: Eva Moskowitz’s Atrocities Toward Teachers!!!
If you want a quick lesson in why it’s so hard to get a lot of pols to do the right thing on education policy, New York is a good place to look. Eva Moskowitz, chair of the city council’s education committee was running for Manhattan Borough president. Moskowitz has been a favorite target of …
Katrina Relief
Instapundit has a handy list of Katrina relief sites if you want to give. The Red Cross site is difficult to access, probably overloaded. In any event, you can send a check to the Red Cross at this address: American Red Cross, PO Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013. And, if you send a check rather …
Patriotic Potpourri
Happy Fourth, everyone. How about some Presidential words of inspiration for… Educators:Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. — John F. Kennedy …
Friday’s News…Special Extra Patriotic Edition
New teacher recruitment initiative in Virginia. Teach for Virginia will help steer aspiring teachers to high-need schools. The New Teacher Project has their able hand in this. Cosby back in the news, AP here, local coverage here. Come All Within: More teachers’ union back and forth in Chicago. More Chicago here and here. Chi Trib …
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Book Banning Could Be A Good Issue For Democrats, But It’s Not A Sure Thing
Bottom line: If the Republicans can land on a message that highlights the Democratic liabilities here then the issue won’t break as cleanly to the Democrats as people assume. I’ve mentioned before that the core Democratic political problem right now is how the party is being held hostage by its activist class. It’s not a …
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Can We Talk? Especially About What We Ought To Expect From Schools?
Apparently a Freddie deBoer column about education got spiked, he published it himself on his Substack this weekend: What follows is a piece that I was commissioned to write for an education publication called The Grade. On submission they declared that the piece was, quote, “too hot” for publication. As I said to them, that response demonstrates …
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Readers React On Parental Rights And Philanthropy, Big Friday Fish, Plus Education & Politics
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Today, reader reactions to two recent posts, a couple of items not by me you may have missed, and a serious fish. Some selected reactions to the recent post on funders and risk. A few funders wrote to say, ‘hey we’re doing this!’ A few shared interesting examples of different kinds …
Tim Daly: What if we have the narrative of pandemic learning loss wrong?
Parenting is a constant set of failures, small and big, only outweighed by all the love and joy. When I think about parenting moves where I would like a mulligan, technology and screens are at the top of the list. So recently in Chicago with Tim Daly we were brainstorming the trends on learning loss …
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The Most Important Election Of The Year!
A couple of items and an election forecast. I sat down with MDRC’s Leigh Parise and William Corrin to talk about personalized learning and the ed scene on the MDRC podcast. Today at 5pm ET Bellwether’s Alex Spurrier and I will be on Twitter Spaces discussing what we’re looking for tonight – besides whiskey – …