Thoughts on Education Policy

I saw an opinion piece in the latest issue of Newsweek yesterday that I caught my attention. In it Johnathon Alter offers some thoughts on...

Liam Julian posted a couple quick blurbs on merit pay today, including one partially in response to a comment I left on the first. Merit p...

I haven't come across much on this in the research literature, but I'm willing to stick my neck out and assert that one thing that a...

Back when I was studying economics, we learned all about the rational behavior in which individuals and organizations engage in response to ...

I read Liam Julian's post "The Martyrs" right before the holiday (yes, I'm a little behind). Though needlessly flippant a...

Maybe it's b/c my brain is still only half-functioning, but I feel like writing something today about which I know little and that will ...

Sorry for my sudden disappearance -- I've been off trying to deal with more important issues. The NY Times ran an article this morning ...

I previously asserted that the largest reason for the failures at my school was not anything in the school but, rather, what took place at ...

A new report out today from the Fordham Institute apparently describes how the bottom 10 percent of students have made more progress this c...

The Wall St. Journal has an editorial today extolling the virtues of Teach For America. I think TFA does far more good than harm, but I ca...