Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Nearly three decades after it was founded, Teach For America is placing thousands of new teachers in school districts all across the country? Is TFA sustainable? Is it “scalable?” Twenty-five years after KIPP started as a tiny experiment in Houston, Texas, it now serves nearly 100,000 students. If it were considered a standalone school district, …
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Bellwether’s Jessica Cooper on “Can We Talk” and STEM. Before the break I wrote about faddishness. Elsewhere: You might want to view this WSJ story on teachers leaving in droves with some skepticism. Welcome to 2019! Elizabeth Warren is in. She says, “The problem we’ve got right now in Washington is that it works great for those …
Important Sara Mead on the growing pains of the early ed movement and the leadership that’s needed to drive progress. Kirsten Schmitz on your favorite fictional teacher’s retirement deal. Andrew Frank on participatory budgeting. In The 74 I ask whether scaring kids about guns is going sour their parents on gun politics – and regardless …
The post below is by guest blogger Mike Goldstein. 1. Old School A few years back, my friend Alan Safran spun off a part of Match Education into a new nonprofit. It’s called Saga. They do Old School personalized learning. Not Old School as in Andy R after a long day with the fish. Old School …
People ask, what does Bellwether do? Good question! A bunch of things to build capacity in the field including policy research and analysis, talent strategies, and strategic advising – here’s an example of that. With the court back at nine justices, the teachers unions are preparing for an adverse Supreme Court ruling along the lines …
Marnie Kaplan on how to not cause – or to avert – an early childhood education workforce crisis. Andrew Rayner on life and life at Bellwether. Axios talks conformation reflections with Betsy DeVos. She’s not the only cabinet official who matters to school policy. David Deschryver on what’s next on ESSA regs. Becca Bracy on …
You were probably under the impression that the answer is 42. Turns out it’s 8.5. And this story about 8.5 from Texas is ugly. Here are sixteen education policy ideas for the next President (pdf). Cynthia Tucker Haynes on charter schools and the African-American community. The long-running backlash against charter schools — now stoked to a …
Great upcoming event on data and Head Start improvement. Rare live appearance by Bellwether’s Sara Mead! Yes, the same Sara Mead who today is coming for your mortgage tax deduction in US News. Plus she’s great at math! All your education news curated here, every weekday, 8am and mid-afternoon. Draft ESSA regs are out (pdf). …
New York Times headline on…..May 17th, 2016: Mississippi District Ordered to Desegregate Its Schools. So a PARCC test got released and everyone is upset. Predictable. But here’s the buried lede: A professor at Columbia Teachers College apparently doesn’t get that you don’t have “Constitutional First Amendment rights” to publish IP you don’t own. Others don’t get …
Character Lab is growing and they’re hiring, five really interesting roles open now: Director of Communications Director of Design Director of Education Director of Research Operations Coordinator This is a great chance to be right in the middle of some of the most interesting work in education right now especially as policymakers are paying more …