Thoughts on Education Policy

I've written this week ( here and here ) about the decision of Pittsburgh's superintendent to step down.  One of the reforms he...

I wrote yesterday that I didn't understand why Mark Roosevelt was stepping down as Superintendent of the Pittsburgh Public Schools (and...

Forget the conflicting rumors over whether Ron Huberman is or is not stepping down as head of the Chicago school system, this is actually b...

-my latest pet peeve: people who complain about schools hiring people during a recession.  Why are we so bitter that people are finding gai...

Mike Petrilli had an interesting post over at Flypaper yesterday, in which he writes that Arne Duncan's argument that "the only way...

While everyone else was off watching "Waiting for 'Superman'" this weekend, I stumbled upon Tony Danza's new show whe...

Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million dollar gift to Newark schools has recieived a lot of attention.  This despite the fact that it amounts to...

Many people noted the article on the turnaround of Brockton HS in yesterday's NY Times.  But I didn't notice anybody critiquing the ...

The most popular opinion of the last few days seems to be that the primary purpose of merit pay is to re-shape the teacher labor force by at...

The National Center on Performance Incentives released the final report on the Nashville performance pay experiment (known as POINT ) yeste...