Thoughts on Education Policy

The NY Times today profiles some fairly reasonable, and minor, changes to the way tenure is granted to teachers in NYC (principals a.) have...

The commentariat seems to agree on two things regarding American schools: that they're not good enough and that students need to be lear...

After NYC hired an outsider (Joel Klein) to run their schools, Pittsburgh decided to hire an outsider as well (Mark Roosevelt).  Both leader...

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...