Inspired by the Sol Stern debate at City Journal, Andrew Coulson has turned poetical in praise of overseas education markets in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan:
They are the very models of a modern market school system.
It doesn’t matter how often the punditocracy’s dissed ‘em.
In the shanty towns of India, Kenya and Nigeria
Are schools […]
Archive for May, 2008
In a fiery Salon column, Garrison Keillor tells Democrats to stop bashing No Child Left Behind and Reading First. Teaching kids to read well is a lot more important than Bush bashing.
“Nice, caring, sharing people” — not “Republican oligarchs in top hats and spats” — are running the schools, Keillor writes. The failure to […]
Education Intelligence Agency lists $12 million in donations by the National Education Association. Not surprisingly, the big money went to state initiatives to increase state education spending and boost the minimum wage or to defeat a measure to limit state spending. The union also gave small donations to liberal groups such as People for the […]
Mathew Needleman of Creating Lifelong Learners is hosting this week’s Carnival of Education. Check out Mr. Teacher’s post on his Lunch Bunch: Students who’ve done all their homework care more about eating lunch with their teacher than about getting ice cream.
Once a low-performing middle school, Denver’s Bruce Randolph School is improving, but its principal and teachers think they could do better with more freedom from district and union rules. The district agreed to grant autonomy, but the teachers’ union blocked the plan. From the Denver Post:
Teachers and administrators at Bruce Randolph School want control […]
For kids planning to enter a science fair, BooksforKids Blog recommends useful books with project ideas.
On the fiction front, I was once a fan of the Danny Dunn books. Invent anti-gravity paint for your next science project!
Teacher evaluation is a mess, write Thomas Toch and Robert Rothman in an Education Sector report.
A host of factors — a lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, union ambivalence, and public education’s practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for […]
At Life on the Road, the Carnival of Homeschooling is rolling along. Tiffany, the host blogger, is eight months pregnant with her third child; the family runs a business from their RV home. And you think you’re busy.
Good charter schools are keeping families in Cleveland, reports the Plain Dealer.
If not for Old Brooklyn Community School, Kerrin Shafer would be an ex-Clevelander.
“It was a savior for us,” said Shafer, who has two children in the State Road charter school. “We were ready to leave the city because of the schools. We stayed […]
The 2007 Charter School Law Deskbook includes charter-school “laws and regulations for each state.”
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