In Denver, they’re bringing in a marriage counselor…
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It’s another take a kid fishing edition.
This is the son and daughter of Susan Oliver. She’s a public relations professional in the education reform space. You can follow her on Twitter here. But, since one of her primary clients is the [...]
New CEP report looks at what’s happening with stimulus dollars around the country.  Couple of items worth paying attention to inside.
[...]You can check out the new Brookings paper on education news coverage (or more precisely the lack thereof) and see a video of the release event.  Should they have called it “Cover Me” instead? Maybe David Brooks would have written on it then…In any event you have to [...]
Not a lot about education in the President’s speech last night…we always get short shrift!  Ha ha.
Anyway, there is a big education implication coming out of the new policy.  Namely, if the President has the left upset over his Afghanistan policy, left and center upset for different reasons about health care [...]
The papers for next Monday’s AEI conference on the demand side of educational entrepreneurship are now online.
[...]In the WaPo  Milloy writes on the Oblate Sisters of Providence and the eduangle. (h/t reader OL, thx)
[...]The much anticipated book with that title and edited by Jane Hannaway and Dan Goldhaber is now out. You can read an overview here.  It’s like Dan Brown, just without symbols, and uses some of the exact same words you’ll find in works by Malcom Gladwell, Michael Lewis, [...]
At the HuffPo he writes on why NCLB maters. Plus, at his blog, 10 industry predictions for 201o.Â
[...]It’s the holiday season again — and again this year please consider participating in Holiday Mail For Heroes via the Red Cross to support the men and women in our armed forces.
[...]Interesting ConnCan paper on ed finance in Connecticut, implications and ideas that resonate beyond that state.
[...]Title I Monitor has a roundtable with a lot of useful perspective (pdf) on what’s happening out there.
[...]Social entrepreneur Alan Khazei is gaining momentum in the MA Senate race.
Update:Â Boston Globe endorses Khazei.
[...]Today’s speech and announcement by New York Mayor Bloomberg is important on a couple of levels. You can watch live. Matters to the future of reform in the city, Race to the Top and New York, and also education politics more generally.
In D.C. the age discrimination suit relative [...]
Well, probably not in these edujobs at Tennessee Score, the EAO there:Â Â Director of Statewide Leadership, Director of Teacher Effectiveness, and Project Manager for Teacher Effectiveness.
[...]New CER data showing that the total number of charter schools now operating is north of 5,000.  So change those talking points! Meanwhile, New York’s data firewall gets the Race to the Top attention but turns out their charter school policy isn’t so hot either (pdf).
[...]NGA needs a senior policy analyst.  And, if you like peaches, SEC football, and charter schools then this job in Georgia might be for you.
[...]New Data Quality Campaign report on where the states are on data (pdf). Good news is some progress but still some glaring holes (for instance linking student and teacher data). And as the report points out, gathering data and using it are two different things.
[...]Ted Sizer passed away last month.   Bruce Smith, an LA teacher, sent this guest post about Sizer’s influence on what happened at Locke High School.
I’m not sure Ted Sizer ever even heard of Locke High School, or of what transpired there; and he probably never realized the influence he [...]
David Whitman writes speeches for Arne Duncan at the Department of Education. He’s written for numerous publications on a range of issues and he examined the ”new paternalism” idea and looked at the issue in his recent book.Â
But maybe he should be at the Department of the Interior? [...]
Sawchuk writes-up the Gates “deep dive” sites.  Stay tuned: This is important work with a lot of implications.
[...]In the WaPo Michael Alison Chandler takes a look a portfolio assessments in VA. The model is a good one for some students but as Chandler notes the dramatic rise in usage — particuarly among at-risk populations — should raise some eyebrows.
[...]This Wall Street Journal editorial is off-base. It understates what a missed opportunity this rethinking learning initiative represents.
[...]He’s smarter than Einstein, better looking than Brad Pitt, writes like a Bronte, and cares more about kids than Angelina Jolie. Plus, he can juggle knives and pilot small aircraft.  So go vote for Kevin Huffman in the next to final round of the WaPo’s next American pundit contest. Voting is today [...]
Is the most interesting thing about the Gates “deep dive” initiative who won or who didn’t? I kinda think the latter.
[...]The proposed allocation amounts in the Race to the Top regulations seem to have deflated some of the enthusiasm for the RTT in some of the smaller – and even mid-size - states.  The willingness to take on the brutal politics is proportional to the payout…The potential loser states are making themselves heard, why [...]
In The Richmond Times I take a look at some of the educational issues facing Governor-elect McDonnell.
[...]Someone lost Meeks. That’s pastor and state senator James T. Meeks in Illinois. His own (powerful) words here and the Chicago Trib ed board’s here.
[...]Progressive Fix, the relaunched PPI website, agrees that the readers are now the ballgame on Race to the Top.  Hanushek offers ideas for the next ESEA. And a New York teacher goes after Steven Brill for the now famous New Yorker piece – because it wasn’t rough enough!
Here’s [...]
Whoa, linking credentialing to performance? That’s crazy talk! And creating a market-based approach to teacher training?  That could put our great and results-producing credentialing systems at risk!
[...]A pundit is almost born. TFA’er Kevin Huffman is still in the running in the WaPo contest as we get to the final round.
He’s a renaissance man: A dedicated TFA’er, an education reformer, a great father, a world-class chef, a winter sports expert, his writing is better than the Bible, Declaration of Independence, and Harry Potter [...]
WaPo ed board hits exactly the right notes in this ed on Race To The Top. Meanwhile, NYT ed board not so happy on the teacher pieces of the stimulus. Background here.
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Meet Nicola Allen. She’s a second year student at the Darden School of Business at UVA with great private sector and education experience (including a stint at KIPP).   But first the important stuff: She’s a badass on the river as this picture shows – and fly fishes.  That’s [...]
With all the attention on the Race to the Top final regs today, good time as any to read this important TNTP report on opportunities the RTT provides (pdf).
[...]when in the wake of the ARRA data someone would ask this, wonder no longer.
[...]Just when you start thinking nothing in the education debate will surprise you…well, stuff like this happens.
[...]Race to the Top final regulations are on the way Thursday [You can read them here].  Ed Week writes them up.   To some extent they do reinforce the view that the tragedy of Race to the Top is that the Department of Ed has to spend this money at all – [...]
The RTD says it well every year.
Also, new Civic Enterprises report today on the asset that veterans are.
[...]I missed this WaPo op-ed by former Senator Alan Simpson when it first ran. If you did, too, don’t miss it this time.
[...]Punchline: It’s going to be awfully hard to get a bill.  Or at least so I argue in US News.  National Journal’s ed blog is debating the what’s next question, too.
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