Thoughts on Education Policy

To: Mark Roosevelt, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools CC: Dr. Jerri Lynn Lippert, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction an...

Yesterday I expressed outrage at Pittsburgh's new grading policy and also posted the district's rationale . I'd like to take ...

My last post mentioned the fact that Pittsburgh has altered the grading system so that no student may receive a grade below 50% on any assi...

It's late. My title is needlessly acerbic. My post will be short. I may write more on this later. I complained an awful lot about the...

I usually avoid taking stances on issues in this blog for a few reasons, maybe because I'm early in my career and am not convinced I kno...

A recurring theme in education commentary is that there are too many bad teachers -- largely because teachers are too hard to fire. The lat...

The Fordham blog alerted me to the fact that George Will again mentioned David Whitman's new book in his latest column (which, if you...

Jay Mathews doesn't much care for the term "paternalistic" when applied to the schools in David Whitman's new book . So h...

Just when I figured that I might never write another batch of these I found two posts on the same topic that fail to fully think through the...

In Nancy Flanagan's latest post , she argues that Dan Willingham's debunking of learning styles and other educational theories is n...