Who owns what is taught in college and university classrooms? Steven Pinker and Greg Mankiw butt heads. (The Boston Globe)
What does Joel Klein think about Michelle Rhee and assigning letter grades to public schools? (The Washington Post)
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Demand Reasons
This week New York City announced that it was closing four public schools. It’s rather unusual to hear of a school system closing schools for any reason, let alone justifying it on academic, as opposed to population and enrollment-related, grounds. Yet, that’s exactly what they did. In a detailed email announcing the move, the Department [...]
Mayoral Control is, in Fact, about Style
Secretary Duncan’s public endorsement of mayoral control in New York City this month comes on the heels of months of controversy for the city’s chancellor Joel Klein, whose tenure seems to be endangering not only NYC’s mayoral control but the viability of Mayor Bloomberg’s entire reform agenda. The allegations driving the calls for Klein to [...]
Oxygen
A co-worker and I were discussing today the oft-repeated education reformer line that schools should be for students and not for adults. See Joel Klein use a version here and Michelle Rhee’s iterations here, here, here, or here. It’s a good line, if for nothing else than it puts traditional powers in education policy (read: [...]
Dueling Manifestos
The extremes in school-reform debates always seem to conspire against the middle, making change a lot tougher to achieve.
It happened again last week when two coalitions of pro-public-school educators and policymakers published reform manifestos. We’re not likely to see really significant, sustained improvement in the educational achievement of disadvantaged students unless we embrace the core [...]
The Gifted Island
New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is starting his revamp of the city’s gifted education program by limiting admission to only those students who score in the top 5 percent on two citywide exams. According to the NYT article, one of the tests used, the Bracken School Readiness Assessment, “gauges students’ understanding of colors, [...]
New Dealing
Andy and I propose a New Deal for Urban Public Schools, as part of a Harvard Law and Policy Review online symposium that also features work by Joel Klein, Stefanie Sanford and Steven Seleznow, and Charles Ogletree, Jr. and Susan Eaton.
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.