Thoughts on Education Policy

Teacher quality is the most important within-school factor influencing educational performance.  And every school should be serious about do...

-Here's a handy little post with some graphs of SAT scores by income. I was actually more interested in the comments than in the post....

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Generalizing about the problems caused by teacher turnover and attrition is generally u...

Mark Bauerlein has a provocative post over at the new EdNext blog. In it he refers to both a report from three years ago and a study tha...

-Flypaper has a piece on the startling drop in enrollment in traditional public schools in Washington D.C. (down 17% from last spring). It...

- Very clever piece in the Miller-McCune magazine (hat tip: idea of the day blog ) about evaluating schools based on how the boys' bath...

Let us assume for a second that we know how to measure how good a teacher (or a school) is. We can then know exactly how well one is perfor...

After regaling one of my roommates with horror stories from teaching in the Bronx for the last half hour I decided to dig into my archives. ...

-By now you've probably heard that Philadelphia is planning a reality show where Tony Danza is a high school teacher. If I thought for ...

The biggest difference between the American system of education now and back in the 20th century is probably the spread of charter schools. ...