Thoughts on Education Policy

I reported last week that, in advance of receiving the Gates money, some schools in Pittsburgh have suddenly started handing out a flurry o...

-About four years ago I watched an episode of The Dog Whisperer (a show in which a professional dog trainer visits the homes of people with ...

A few months back I had the chance to read through a yearbook of sorts that had been prepared for an upcoming 50th high school reunion.  The...

Ambler Winkler is gushing over the Gates grants that were just announced.  And in one sense, she's right -- it's a heck of a lot of...

-Apparently Jamie Oliver's campaign to improve school lunch quality in the U.K. may have led to improvement in both attendance and perf...

Yesterday I wrote about a plan at a Pittsburgh high school to raise money by allowing students to force their teachers to count coins inste...

Last week, the cash-for-grades fundraising scheme at a North Carolina elementary school came to light.  Shortly thereafter, it was announce...

Though the term "achievement gap" was first used to reference something rather specific -- the difference between the standardized...

Skimming through the latest Bracey Report , I calculated the following statistic from the table on page 3: If we look at achievement score...

-The Christian Science Monitor has a piece asking if a longer school day will close the achievement gap.  In some ways, I think a longer sc...