Thoughts on Education Policy

If memory serves, when Campbell Brown began her show on CNN, the (unofficial?) slogan was "no bull".  So much for that . . . Ton...

Bob Herbert's op-ed on schools today is a mixed bag -- which means it's better than most commentaries that have appeared in the pop...

I wrote a while back about an ASA presentation I called "perhaps the best paper I've ever seen at a conference."  Apparently ...

Sorry for the long layoff -- it turns out that taking over a class a week into the semester while trying to advance both one's dissertat...

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...