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The right kind of infection
The Powell et al. article on cultural complexity 90,00 years ago, published in the June 5 issue of Science, has some interesting consequences for education policy, though it’s an archaeology article. The argument the authors make is that one needs a certain population density before one can find surviving signs of cultural complexity (archaeological evidence […]
Shamless book plug in response to Kevin Carey
Kevin Carey has a very interesting personal history of school funding reform in Indiana, and then later writes that maybe he should have written differently, without “lie” as a verb. In retrospect, titling that post “Lie To Me” and talking about hiding information from parents was a bad idea–as is blogging at 4 AM after […]
Worst-governed state?
A few thoughts on the budget catastrophe that California is facing: Before voters imposed a supermajority requirement for crafting a budget several years ago, California’s political system was broken. Voters approved Prop. 98 to guarantee a slice of general revenues going to K-12 and community colleges for a reason, even if the rigidity was not […]
“Governance reform” is not reform
While New York rages over mayoral control, which is all the rage, schools in Pinellas County are headed towards The New Site Based Management, which was the rage in the late 1980s and early 1990s and which Bill Ouchi hopes will be the rage again. While there are plenty of ways that governance can affect […]
When historians comment on draft regulations…
Kelly Woestman, H-Net‘s current president, just wrote a wonderful comment on NARA’s proposal to reorganize the management of (and possibly centralize) presidential libraries.