Teacher Shortages, Title IX Fight, Early Ed, DACA In The Classroom, Not Much Equity In NYC But Concerns About Too Much In VA? Plus Higher Ed, Teacher Salaries, Pensions And More!

Scroll down for jobs and fish pics. Including jobs and fish pics at Bellwether. Also at BW: Here’s Ashley Mitchell with some reactions and takeaways from the new KIPP pre-k study. And here’s Sara Mead in USN on the 3-k gap. Chad Aldeman and Kirsten Schmitz on the evolving teacher pension scene and changes to …

The Rock And Tough Love, Purdue And Kaplan, Title I Inequity, Impact Aid Ideas, Grocery Stores And Schools, Stephen Carter On Reading, Campus Politics, CMO Growth, Music Reviews, More!

At The 74, Hailly Korman and I warm to the idea of Mr. President The Rock. We also like his genuine interest in helping adjudicated youth but in an open letter we urge him to make sure there is as much love as tough in his tough love approach. Off-edu, I review some musical acts, …

Trump, DeVos, Whiteboard Insiders On DeVos, Choice And Accountability. Plus: Steve Fleishman With The Eduwonkiest Non-Eduwonk Post Ever, Wisconsin News And Ravitch Could Have Stopped Trump And Chose Not To! Student Speech, When Does McWhorter Sleep? Also Data On TIMSS, Fordham Authorizing, EdTPA And More…

Another Bellwether Education blog training coming in February. Applications due in December. More here. Last week I offered some thoughts in U.S. News & World Report on lecturing Trump voters that were really about the rampant assumption of monocausality since the election. I voted for Clinton. I’m no fan of Trump. But all of his …

Upward Mobility, College Costs, Grading Parents, Harvard And Vouchers, Badgers And Music!

Mike Petrilli is trying to make education policy great again. OK, he’s trying to figure out a conservative education agenda. New book out and an event today about it.  On education “If Donald Trump is President you’re going to be very happy.” Or perhaps not. Breakdown of the Sanders higher education plan. What the candidates …