BlogNetNews.com » Education » Dashboard « Today's Most Clicked Blogs http://www.blognetnews.com/education/ BlogNetNews.com » Education BlogNetNews.com en Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog: WELCOME TO MY BLOG http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/welcome-to-my-blog_2071.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:21:00 -0500 http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/welcome-to-my-blog_2071.html Thanks for visiting my blog.  I sometimes don’t have time to post on my blog everything that I send to my school reform email list, so if you want to receive my regular (approximately every other day) email updates, please email me at WTilson at tilsonfunds.com.

 

For more about [...] ]]> Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog: Finding frustration instead of a home http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/finding-frustration-instead-of-home.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:18:00 -0500 http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/finding-frustration-instead-of-home.html This article highlights perhaps the single biggest challenge for charters: space.

"They're D.C. taxpayers, and they're sending their children to a public school, so they want them to have access to the same resources as other kids," she said.

Although the Franklin School was closed long before Chancellor [...] ]]> Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog: Scholarly Investments http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/scholarly-investments_05.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:21:00 -0500 http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/scholarly-investments_05.html STOP THE PRESSES!!!  This is a GREAT NY Times story (the cover story in the Sunday Styles section) about hedge fund managers starting and supporting numerous charter schools in NYC.  I'm quoted briefly:

The schools present the kind of opportunity that "electrifies" hedge fund managers, said Mr. Tilson, 43, who' [...] ]]> Whitney Tilson's School Reform Blog: In Search of Education Leaders http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-search-of-education-leaders.html Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:18:00 -0500 http://edreform.blogspot.com/2009/12/in-search-of-education-leaders.html Kudos to Bob Herbert for his fantastic NYT op ed:

For me, the greatest national security crisis in the United States is the crisis in education. We are turning out new generations of Americans who are whizzes at video games and may be capable of tweeting 24 hours a day [...] ]]> Moving at the Speed of Creativity: Lessons learned using Ustream Recorder for iPhone http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/05/lessons-learned-using-ustream-recorder-for-iphone/ Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:41:55 -0500 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/05/lessons-learned-using-ustream-recorder-for-iphone/ This morning I participated in a wonderful outreach activity with members of our church at the City Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City, and I recorded the children’s program portion of the event using the free Ustream for iPhone Recorder application. These are a few of my [...] ]]> Teachers At Risk: What’s the point of high school anyway? http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachersAtRisk/~3/QfB4PF6SpXE/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:01:19 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TeachersAtRisk/~3/QfB4PF6SpXE/ [...] ]]> JBB's Desktop: JBB’s Twitter Updates for 2009-12-05 http://www.blognetnews.com/education/go.php?http://joebustillos.com/2009/12/05/jbbs-twitter-updates-for-2009-12-05/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:01:29 -0500 http://joebustillos.com/2009/12/05/jbbs-twitter-updates-for-2009-12-05/ [...] ]]>