On Monday Alexander Russo asked for more information on how Chicago Public Schools have fared under Superintendent Arne Duncan, a likely Secretary of Education candidate. Eduwonkette gave a harsh review of the data, but the truth is a little more mixed.
Since Duncan took over in 2001, Chicago has made statistically significant progress in fourth and [...]
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Duncan’s Data
Breaking Down School Choice Silos
Over at This Week in Education, Alexander Russo criticizes the charter school movement for being too insular and for being absent from conversations about improving traditional public schools—where the vast majority of students are, and likely will continue, to be educated for the foreseeable future. I agree that too often conversations about charter schools and [...]
Consultants Earning Their Keep
Alexandar Russo, June 25th:
Kevin Carey mystifyingly defends the management consultant crowd by blaming incompetent management for DC schools’ problems.
The Washington Examiner, today:
Communications breakdown caused boxes of sporting goods, computers and other essential equipment to be left padlocked in a shuttered District of Columbia junior high school for almost an entire year while a neighboring school [...]
Nauseating
Alexander Russo writes pretty much what I’ve been thinking for a long time about these anecdotal reports of kids throwing up from the pressures of high-stakes testing: It’s not the fault of NCLB, or testing; It’s the fault of adults in the schools who are creating an environment where kids feel so much stress and [...]
Testing Opportunity
This Week in Education’s Alexander Russo comments on the recent news of scoring errors on the SAT:
“You think anyone’s going to go for national testing with all this going on? It’d be like saying you wanted to give more money to FEMA while Mike Brown was still there. Opponents would have a field day.”
Isn’t this [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.