Thoughts on Education Policy

Tim Daly confuses two different things in his post from three weeks ago (that I just found).  He lists a number of people in power and says...

Gotham Schools pointed me to an interesting item that's been making waves today: the race-based election standards at Mississippi's...

Paul Tough has a piece in today's NY Times on the Harlem Children's Zone and Promise Neighborhoods that's worth a few minutes of...

The LA Times ran an article Sunday that's the first in a series leading to the release of scores of teacher effectiveness based on a v...

An awful lot of people seem to think that firing more teachers would solve all our problems, especially if those people are economists. Th...

Those who read this blog regularly have likely noticed that I haven't been posting nearly as frequently over the past year or so.  Durin...

-19 states were named finalists in the "Scramble furiously for cash that amounts about a 1% boost in your state's education budget...

-I hadn't heard Michelle Rhee's name in the news in a while . . . and then she went and fired 241 teachers .  More significant is t...

I'll return to blogging the week after next

I'm all for calling people out when they say ridiculous things, but it seems like we're a little too hasty with the accusations and ...