Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Washington Post weighs-in with a very sensible editorial. Targeted, modest, and time-limited. While hardly surprising at this point, the Bush Administration’s ability to mortgage the high ground on an issue in favor of playing politics still manages to astound…Eduwonk readers weigh-in later…
Time looks at the education issue.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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I remember one (well funded, natch) education non-profit leader telling me at a dinner a few years ago how crazy, and disrespectful, it was for me to say that Black people might vote for Donald Trump in numbers. OK. Here’s a chart of shifts in national vote patterns in last week’s election. From a political …
ICYMI — Laura Marcus from Tidelines Institute stopped by to talk about her education journey and the experiential education work she is leading in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Jed and I discussed several issues on the last WonkyFolk. Here’s a new analysis on AI from Bellwether. And here’s a new analysis of special education finance from Bellwether. It took Harvard 388 years to catch …
We’re coming into a weekend, my own kids are finishing high school this month. And I made a Fast Times At Ridgemont High reference the other day. So here we go. Along with books like Patricia Hersch’s Tribe Apart, Fast Times is, in my view, essential to understanding 1980s suburban culture. But where Hersch, and others, documented what was happening or had …
A few memories stay with me from the very early days of the pandemic. Mostly about what I got wrong or right, or just got lucky. My wife and I throw themed dinner parties and on Feb. 29th of 2020 we threw a small one with a leap theme, about great leaps. We served grasshoppers …