Thoughts on Education Policy

-The next part of the series on what we should learn from Promise Academy should be out tomorrow night. I was out of town at a workshop mos...

Note: In lieu of a Sunday Commentary, I will be running a multi-part discussion of the recent controversy surrounding the Promise Academy. ...

-Fascinating article on self-control in the New Yorker (hat tip: Alexander Russo ). I still maintain that self-control is one of two major...

-Can one "bad apple" ruin an entire classroom? Any teacher will tell you that they can. Robert Pondiscio reports on a pair of e...

-I've had another 24 hours to think about, and I still think that Brooks' op-ed was sloppy and irresponsible. And I still think tha...

David Brooks wrote quite the op-ed on Friday. And I don't mean that in a good way. Having just begun reading Whatever it Takes the d...

Just wanted to let everybody know not to expect any posts from me this week. I finished my last term paper at Vanderbilt a few days ago and...

In the debates over the merits of school reform vs. social reform – or in discussions of how to weave the two together – many make claims ab...

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...