Thoughts on Education Policy

Another former NYC Teaching Fellow -- one who's actually remained in teaching -- has started an interesting new education policy blog. ...

-No Sunday Commentary this week, I'm immersed in the final term paper of my grad school career. -Maybe I was right when I speculated ab...

Dan Brown wrote yesterday that more than 99.8% of all teachers are not members of Teach For America. Chad Alderman writes a "yes, bu...

Apparently this guy finally cracked. After at least a couple decades of teaching (I'm basing this assumption on his salary), he got si...

Check out this study I just found from 1981. Seems like P.S. 98 in NYC was right next to some elevated train tracks. When they tested the...

The new ed school rankings are out, and Vanderbilt is #1. Sure the rankings are pretty much meaningless, but I'm sure there will be a p...

Alexander Russo linked to this the other day, an NPR segment featuring Sudhir Venkatesh and William Julius Wilson on the "culture of ...

Debra Viadero reported last week on a paper by Dave Stuit and Tom Smith finding that charter school teachers are 230% more likely to leave ...

We all know that large gaps exist in achievement and attainment between blacks and whites, poor and rich, upper-class and lower-class, etc. ...

During a class discussion today, a student made an interesting claim -- that Teach for America raises the status of the teaching profession....