Thoughts on Education Policy

Part 4: What Can We Learn? Previous posts: Part 1: Background Info Part 2: What to Look For Part 3: Why it Matters Despite what Ri...

Part 3: Why it Matters Previous posts: Part 1: Background Info Part 2: What to Look For You may have noticed that I'm devoting a ...

Part 2: What to Look For The results from the Nashville incentive pay experiment are due to be released tomorrow (see last week's pos...

-The results from the Nashville incentive pay experiment are being released on Tuesday , so keep your eyes open . . . and check back here fo...

I'm somewhat skeptical of national polling on most educational issues, since the public doesn't truly understand much of what they...

Part 1: Background Information According to Eduwonk , results from the Nashville incentive pay experiment are due to be released soon.  I...

- Jay Mathews echoes a point I've often made in private: most news stories about the cost of college attendance grossly overstate what ...

Last week, Peter Meyer wrote a piece that I called " baffling ".  Well, at least he's consistent, because today he did the sa...

Researchers and practitioners all seem to agree that teachers are the most important factor within a school.  And many have taken that anoth...

-Tennessee has figured out a solution (hat tip: Stephen Lentz) to the fact that only about 1/3 of teachers teach tested subjects but that a...