Nick Kristoff’s recent column about Michelle Rhee brings up a common trope in school reform controversies: “leadership style,” with Kristoff averring that “Ms. Rhee’s weakness is her bedside manner.” Per Eduwonk–really? Is that all? Read Dana Goldstein’s informative new TAP article about UFT President Randi Weingarten, Rhee’s chief antagonist, who “speaks in the commanding, practiced [...]
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That’s Funny, But Not Ha-Ha Funny
The Fordham Institute’s Liam Julian has vowed to spend his entire summer pounding out overlong responses to this blog, so that we won’t “let fly with a barrage of blog blather like none yet seen, safe in [our] assumption that [our] ill-founded fulminations would go unopposed.”
Okay…..first of all, it’s really a disservice to William F. [...]
Incomparable
Since there’s obviously not much else going on in the world, the Post published its third front-page story today on the DC school reform plan plagiarism “scandal,” wherein Mayor Fenty produced a school reform plan partially copied from the school district in Charlotte, NC. Read about days one and two here and here. After the [...]
Meaning from Marshmallows
In yesterday’s NYT, columnist David Brooks argued* that “structural” education reforms–such as accountability, school choice and teacher pay reforms–have a lousy track record of success because they fail to address “core questions, such as how do we get people to master the sort of self-control that leads to success.” According to Brooks,
If you’re a policy [...]
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.