Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
If Eduwonk had ten dollars for every time someone asks whether No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is underfunded or unfunded…well, you’d be reading gonefishingwonk.com right now. It’s understandable that there are a lot of questions about this, because it’s a hard question to answer. In classic Washington style, the answer depends on what you mean …
Over the weekend The Washington Post’s Colbert I. King discussed Bill Cosby’s controversial remarks from last week. Amazingly, the only other place the Post has been running discussion of Cosby’s provocative comments has been in the gossip column… Tamar Lewin looked at the new SAT in the NYT. Kaplan, the test prep company, is touting …
Secret Weapon? If the Bushies had any sense they’d muzzle Rod Paige, Gene Hickok, and even the President himself and just send out the First Lady to talk about education if this story from The Oregonian is any indication…Karen Symms Gallagher writes in USA Today that college rankings are bunk…and in the LA Times Crispin …