Thoughts on Education Policy

. . . then why are so many so petrified of losing their jobs? In conversation after conversation with teachers from a wide variety of school...

Yesterday's Economic Scene Column by David Leonhardt captures my biggest objection to the "not everybody should go to college...

The rhetoric about "bad teachers" may never go away -- in part some teachers will always perform poorly, act irresponsibly, and so...

The Quick and the Ed had a good piece today on the emerging research on the college "promise" policies enacted by various distric...

One thing that continues to intrigue me is the flip in the attitudes of some conservatives toward the power of schools. When the Coleman Rep...

This NY Times piece on chronic absenteeism in schools was interesting, particularly this paragraph: The problem has hardly disappeared. L...

Reading today's Dilbert cartoon strip, I couldn't help but think of education reform. While there is, indeed, some value to bei...

For the next two months I will be working on my dissertation full-time.  I considered taking another two month hiatus from blogging, but dec...

Corey : Last time , we discussed the effects of under-performing principals versus under-performing teachers in schools, including some ways...

Corey:  I have a shorter and simpler (sort of) topic this week.  One can’t read more than a couple of blog posts or newspaper/magazine artic...