Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Here’s this year’s holiday book list, which people seem to like, perhaps because it doesn’t include many education books. Or perhaps because we all procrastinate and need last minute gift ideas…anyway there were a lot of good education books this year – Harvard Education Press put out a bunch so check their catalog. Fredrick deBoer’s “Cult …
Very sad to report that the education world lost Ted Preston over the weekend to cancer. Ted’s been featured here on the blog and his work has as well. He was a genuinely good person and terrific colleague. With his background Ted could have done a variety of things, and he decided to turn his attention …
Adair Bard is on the Bellwether team – and like a few of us here she likes to get out on the water to fish. Here she is on the Fork in Colorado last year. Her husband Daniel is in Florida for work and got out this week for tarpon on the fly – a …
Simmons Lettre is a co-founder of Charter Board Partners, a smart capacity building non-profit that helps improve the quality of charter school boards through governance training and training for board members. She found herself in Colorado last week for work and did what anyone should do in that situation – went fishing. In this case …
Ben Wallerstein is a founder of Whiteboard Advisors and is involved in all manner of education projects. He also has a honey fishing spot in the Wyoming backcountry, home to more public land than you can possibly explore in a lifetime. He was there this week. Nice trout. Some of his past fish via this …
It sure looks like the old splits in the Democratic party on education are reemerging. That’s not surprising given the timing – open seat presidency in 2016 creates a vacuum – as well as policy differences and politics. Richard Whitmire and I take a look at that in USA Today this morning. Most non-New Yorkers …
Kevin Skenandore is a former acting director of BIE and now a co-founder and partner at New Legacy Partnerships, a consulting firm that among other issues specializes in Native American educational issues. An educator who started his career working in BIE schools, he’s also the kind of fly fisherman who can conjure fish out of …
Charter school policy and politics in Virginia makes you want to stick a fork in your eye.
As you see from the post below, Bryan and Emily Hassel of Public Impact are doing to do some guestblogging while I’m mostly out of pocket with some meetings for the next few days. When they blog they kick it old school so I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Couple of quick things: Fun event next week …
There’s a critical if little-noticed fork in the road for “national education policy” and it looks now as if the Obama administration, to its credit, is going to take both paths. When the discussion gets serious about implementation people realize they’re looking down one road where the signpost points toward treating improvement as a ‘performance’ …
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