From USA Today: “Time spent in physical education does not detract from elementary school students’ ability to excel in the classroom and may even help improve girls’ academic performance, a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.”
Wait, I thought that boys were the ones that had to move around to learn, not [...]
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Pondering Richard Simmons
Editing Q&E’s worldwide exclusive interview with Richard Simmons (below) yesterday led me to ponder what seems like the essential Richard Simmons question: is this guy serious, or what?
I think he is. The mistake with Richard is to equate ridiculousness with lack of seriousness, which is usually a safe assumption, but not in this case. Think [...]
"We’re Leaving Our Children’s Behinds Behind" — An Interview with Richard Simmons
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Richard Simmons, the fitness guru who first rose to multi-media fame in the 1980s as a TV personality and purveyor of excercise videos like “Sweatin’ to the Oldies,” parts 1, 2, and 3. Ostensibly, the post was about his plan–which I called “silly”–to include physical [...]
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, [...]
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.