Thoughts on Education Policy

The teaser on Time's home page for Joe Klein's new commentary on teachers' unions said something about them stopping reform.  O...

I stayed up late following the action on GothamSchool's excellent play-by-play post of the decision to close 20 schools in NYC.  When a...

I'm still thinking about Geoffrey Canada's recent visit to Nashville.  One question I wanted to ask, but didn't, was this: ...

Last spring I took David Brooks to task for his irresponsible assertions that the Harlem Children's Zone's Promise Academy had clos...

Conventional wisdom when I was teaching in NYC seemed to be that, to some degree, NYC served as a farm system for the surrounding counties...

-Hope everyone is having a great holiday season.  It always seems weird to me that people put their lights and decorations up weeks or month...

One of the last things I read last night was this NY Times article about a new research study on the civic engagement of former TFA teach...

-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...