Thoughts on Education Policy

-Pittsburgh has decided not to levy a 1% tax on college tuition as the mayor and 5 out of 9 council members (and possibly nobody else) want...

I find it troubling that discussions around merit pay (or performance incentives, or whatever the iteration at hand or preferred terminology...

Schooling implicitly and explicitly tells people to do certain things.  Since the goals while one attends school are largely to earn good gr...

-If nothing else, I like the title of this LA Times story : "Controlling a classroom isn't as easy as ABC" (hat tip: Flypaper ...

I think I mostly agree with Jay Mathews' latest post on closing low-performing charter schools.  But I can't tell because he uses f...

I finally got around to watching the 60 Minutes segment on the Harlem Children's Zone.  I share the concerns of Aaron Pallas and Sherm...

Except at the University of Alabama, where they've canceled 3 days of classes so that people can attend the national championship game....

TNTP today released a report based, in part, on a survey of teachers in Cincinnati.  And I have two shocking bits of information to share w...

I've previously mentioned Pittsburgh's plan to raise $15 million -- levy a 1% tax on student tuition.  The public reaction to the p...

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