Thoughts on Education Policy

Stephen Sawchuck reports that a new report on value-added scores compares them to measures in other fields, including batting averages in ...

In case you missed it, The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article written by "Ed Dante" (a psuedonym) about h...

The NY Times has a piece on Bloomberg's secretive search for the next schools chancellor.  A Times blog follows up with a mildly amusin...

The shocking news of the evening is that Joel Klein has stepped down as chancellor of NYC's schools (and accepted a job with News Corp....

*One college professor writes that their teacher prep program is losing many of their brightest prospective history teachers because the st...

Apologies for the sudden dead air, but I've been swamped with dissertation and job-related activities. I'll try to update at least...

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...