Thoughts on Education Policy

A few brief notes on some smaller stories this week: -A lot of people seem to be discussing the  new report  released yesterday finding th...

Nick Kristof's column the other day about the lack of interaction between Academia and the public sure ruffled some feathers.  That...

My one-time classmate, Morgan Polikoff -- now an Assistant Professor at USC -- weighs in today with his first blog post on why he's opti...

Hi Everybody, Long time, no see.  I've written just one post in the past 11 months, and not a whole lot the previous year, so I'll...

I'll make this brief, but I felt compelled to point out the flaw in the way people are applying Campbell's Law to education when I s...

Last week, I wrote about the dismissive attitude toward teaching Kindergarten on How I Met Your Mother , and I wanted to offer one short cla...

Tonight's episode of How I Met Your Mother features an argument between Marshall and Lily about her career that speaks volumes about th...

In last week's debate, Mitt Romney took credit for Massachusetts' position atop some education rankings. And, yes, it's  general...

The edusphere is abuzz about this NY Times piece on early vocabulary growth that ran over the weekend. Though the piece focuses on the cur...

Last Thursday, the  National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools  (a research center led by Vanderbilt's Peabody College with partner...