Given the importance of parent involvement, should outreach skills be part of a new teacher’s preservice training? Or should teachers teach and leave the outreach to social workers? (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Could the downward dog replace dodgeball as a PE activity of choice? (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
What happens when today’s couch potato kids [...]
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Hot Boys (With Audio)
If you missed Education Sector’s talk last week with author Peg Tyre you can listen to it below. The discussion features Tyre, best-selling author of The Trouble with Boys, New America Foundation Senior Analyst Sara Mead, and USA Today columnist Richard Whitmire. Topics ranged from gender differences in NAEP scores and ADHD diagnoses to boy-girl [...]
The Trouble with Boys: Author Talk with Peg Tyre
This podcast was recorded at an Education Sector–hosted reception, book signing, and discussion with Peg Tyre, author of The Trouble With Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do. (Crown Publishers).
Tyre was joined by Sara Mead, a senior research fellow in the Education Policy Program at [...]
Fear for Your Daughter’s Virtue
“Boys crisis” promoter Richard Whitmire has a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed offering a new reason to be upset about the higher education gender imbalance: it’s turning college girls into, um, women of easy virtue, allegedly because of “what biologists refer to as the operational sex ratio, which in the animal kingdom refers [...]
How Colleges Short-Change Women
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, USA Today editorial writer Richard Whitmire, author of a forthcoming book about how K-12 schools supposedly short-change boys, looks at the issue of gender discrimination in college admissions. Says($) Whitmire:
In desperate attempts to keep their campuses from swinging hugely female, as far more women than men apply to college [...]
Rubbing Elbows with the Stars!
This morning I sat in on Business Roundtable’s “Fourth Annual NCLB Forum: Assessing Progress, Addressing Problems, Advancing Performance.” The panel discussion featured Acting Education Department Under Secretary and Chief of Staff David Dunn, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair and Ranking member, respectively, Howard “Buck” McKeon and George Miller, and NEA President Reg Weaver, [...]
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.