Is increasing civic involvement among participants a core mission of Teach For America? Should it be? (The New York Times)
Daniel Willingham asks: Why doesn’t reading more make us better readers? (The Answer Sheet)
Is your toddler struggling with speech? New research suggests that turning off the TV just might help. (EducationNews.org)
AFT vs. NEA: Which unions are [...]
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Willful Misunderstanding
Over at the National Journal’s group edu-bigwig blog, they’re debating the question “Are the Race To the Top Requirements Fair?” A lot of the discussion centers on the RTT requirement that states eliminate prohibitions against linking student test score data with individual teachers. Most of the bloggers are in favor of this, on the grounds [...]
Salary Schedule Slopes
At the 2008 annual meeting of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teacher’s union, then-Senator Barack Obama endorsed changing teacher compensation structures from traditional single salary schedules—where teachers are paid based only on their educational credentials and years of experience—to one reflecting the performance of individual teachers in the classroom. His mention of pay [...]
Full-Service Schools
I had the good fortune to moderate a symposium on education policy in Denver last week hosted by Mayor John Hickenlooper. It was one of ten non-partisan events the host city organized in conjunction with the Democratic National Convention on wonky topics ranging from global warming to transportation infrastructure.
There were several highlights to the conversation [...]
Pay for Performance: Chicken or Egg?
AFTie Ed responds to this post below on teacher pay:
My baseline position wasn’t “we’re not in this for the money, give us more money.” Instead it’s “we don’t have the option of being in it for the money, and trying to introduce that option without making the pie bigger isn’t a smart idea.” What I [...]
Democracts and NCLB
Sam Dillon’s Times front-pager on NCLB-bashing among Democratic presidential candidates came out a few days before I hit the road to spend Christmas with the fam, but apparently I’m not the only one who didn’t get to it until after the New Year. As Eduwonk notes, the buried lede in that piece was the major [...]
Richard Simmons, No Child Left Behind, and Me
Via the NEA’s anti-NCLB blog, we learn that Richard Simmons wants phys-ed to be included as a “multiple measure” in the reauthorized version of NCLB. Really! He even went on Letterman (Remember Letterman? Those were the days. The ’80s, to be specific) to promote the plan. This is good news–not in an education policy sense, [...]
No Secrets in Cyberspace
There’s this cool new Web site called Wikipedia scanner that reveals how different organizations are editing Wikipedia. While Wikipedia edits are technically anonymous, the site keeps track of the IP address from which the edits were made. IP addresses, in turn, can be matched up with specific organizations. So while you can’t tell exactly what [...]
More on Special Education and NCLB
As promised, ES has a new Chart You Can Trust on NCLB accountability and special education students.
As this great article in EdWeek discusses, some lawmakers and education groups (such as the National Education Association and National School Boards Association) are calling for more flexibility when assessing special education students. Specifically, they’d like to give students [...]
Push Me, Pull Me
In reporting on new data about the number of schools identified by NCLB as not making adequate yearly progress, Bloomberg News writes:
“The percentage of failing schools rose by one point from the previous school year. Under the 2002 law, schools that do not make sufficient academic progress face penalties including the eventual replacement of their [...]
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
03/11/10 | 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.