Thoughts on Education Policy

I've encountered a number of surprises after switching from teaching to researching, but perhaps none have been more notable than the ro...

I've been on the road for two weeks now and all the conference presentations are starting to muddle together in my head. As such, I...

I often say that I spent two years trying to teach in the Bronx. Why trying? Because discipline problems in my school were so severe that...

In my last post I mentioned debate over alt cert programs. Allow me to elaborate on one strand of the debate. It is my impression that alt ...

I was all set to go to bed when I noticed this post on the eduwonkette blog. Given that I was less than satisfied with my last two posts (...

The final session that I attended was a symposium of researchers from CA that investigated alternative schools ( previous post ), which Milb...

The first session I attended at AERA was an overview of a recent book, The Price We Pay . The book was published by a team of noted economi...

Noon today marks the first session of the 89th annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Close to 20,000 e...

Douglas Willms gave the keynote address last night here at CIES and spoke about increasing both equity and achievement ("raising and ...

I'm in New York City right now attending the meetings of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). I've been most...