Thoughts on Education Policy

Notes on a few smaller stories this week: -A new CPRE report  find that most "teachers focused on what students do (procedural) rathe...

I haven't written much the past couple years, so I'd like to write a bit about the biggest change I've seen in the education deb...

A new survey by the UFT finds pretty big discrepancies between the perception of training by NYC Teaching Fellows versus traditionally trai...

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...