Thoughts on Education Policy

GothamSchools had an excellent story yesterday about a Bronx High School Principal who changed students' grades.  Color me not surprise...

Last week, I wrote the following: "If money doesn't matter in education, why are all of the most expensive colleges among the n...

-Did you know that " kids love year-round school "?  Of course, the year-round school discussed decided to extend its school year ...

-I somehow missed Thomas Friedman's op-ed the other day.  Pretty standard boilerplate stuff about how we have to fix our schools to fix...

-If money doesn't matter in education, why are all of the most expensive colleges among the nation's elite? -Did you know that ev...

For the last couple weeks, Alexander Hoffman has been writing about why he thinks standards are pointless over at Gotham Schools.  He raise...

Over the past year or more we've heard a lot about the "reformers vs. defenders of the status quo" (or "deformers vs. rea...

-A new RAND report indicates that NYC's retention policy may be helping kids who are retained ( GothamSchools , NYTimes ).  I haven...

Nicholas Kristof is at it again.  He's written another misinformed op-ed about education in the NY Times. Yes, I'm annoyed that h...

The latest NAEP results are out, and they're not particularly impressive.  4th grade scores were unchanged, but 8th grade scores inched...