Thoughts on Education Policy

More ridiculousness involving football and education: The Pittsburgh Public Schools will open two hours late on Monday morning to allow stu...

by Corey Bunje Bower It was another ordinary February day at Middle School 135 in the Bronx (which is to say: chaos reigned and tempers flar...

Update: Until I figure out a better way to do this, I'm going to keep an index of all Tales from the Trenches at the top of this post F...

Interesting article on Sports Illustrated's website regarding the escalation of salaries among assistant college football coaches. See...

Some interesting news items out there today: -According to USA Today , a recent study found that students with recess behaved better in sc...

We've been reading The One Best System , by David Tyack, for class. Here's on interesting tidbit I came across (about nineteenth ce...

I've said many times that I consider Eduwonkette to be the best education blog around, and I'm not the only one: Jennifer Jennings...

by Corey Bunje Bower In-School vs. Non-School Factors If there's anything upon which education researchers agree it's that s...

Today marks the roll-out of a new feature -- the Sunday Commentary. The first commentary will appear shortly and will be written by me. In...

-Maybe I was right -- maybe an Obama presidency will shrink the achievement gap . A recent study found that the black-white achievement ga...