Thoughts on Education Policy

Let me illustrate my point by first telling three anecdotes. 1.) Believe it or not, back in elementary school I was just about the model s...

I've written about the push to include more outsiders in education ( here  and here , for example), and often focused more on the negati...

Not that I ever officially left, but between dissertation, teaching, revising manuscripts, job hunting, etc. blogging kept falling to the bo...

As teachers around the country start to head back to work, I'm starting to hear the same thing I hear every year from teachers I know: ...

A new report being released today apparently finds that 60% of students in Texas were suspended or expelled at least once between 7th and 12...

Here's an interesting story  to follow from the suburbs of Pittsburgh.  It seems that the majority of the residents of the tiny borough ...

This NYT article seems incomplete, but I like it for one simple reason: people talk all the time about charters cherry picking or cream ski...

. . . 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...