Thoughts on Education Policy

I'm in the middle of finals week, so I only have a couple minutes, but I think this is worth looking at for a second. A grand headline...

Most of the time I can't imagine focusing on anything but education policy for the rest of my life. But, at certain times, I wonder if ...

Bashing our education system has been a popular sport since well before I was born. Indeed, if I didn't think there were serious proble...

Ever since the Soviets launched Sputnik we've been worrying about how well our schools are doing at teaching science. More recently, pe...

I'm sick of the discussion over the NY tenure law but, for some reason, I can't resist chipping in another two cents worth of though...

This is a follow-up to my last post where I posted a graph that surprised me. As a percentage of GDP, per-pupil expenditures have remained...

I just read a post at D-Ed Reckoning about the astronomical increases in per-pupil education spending over the past century. Though expen...

My my last post had far too much vitriol for my liking, and I feel the need to cleanse my system with a less argumentative and more thoughtf...

I wrote before on the tenure law that was passed in NY and had no intention of writing about it again, in part because I think the end resu...

Before entering academia I was always told not to make generalizations about people. In academia, however, the main goal is to find results...