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Would Florida SB 6 criminalize Gates grant to Hillsborough schools?
Note (March 25, 2010): This entry was written on March 20, about an earlier version of Senate Bill 6. Early this week, the bill was modified to allow Hillsborough to seek an exemption; the amendment was crafted so that no other district could apply, even if they replicated Hillsborough’s efforts using local funding. For my […]
ESEA reauthorization blueprint, the CliffNotes version
I have several meetings today, but I want to write down my thoughts on Duncan’s ESEA reauthorization “blueprint” before I forget them. As I wrote over the weekend, Mike Petrilli is reading the substance of the blueprint correctly; the Obama administration is proposing that federal policy walk back a few steps from NCLB’s absolutist mechanisms […]
Petrilli nails ESEA reauthorization proposal
After finishing the last entry, I realized I should write something about Friday’s USDOE proposal on ESEA reauthorization. But procrastination is sometimes a serendipitous thing, thanks to the Fordham blog: Mike Petrilli’s analysis is correct, at least on first approximation. A narrative framework is not statutory language, Duncan’s proposal isn’t George Miller’s, and other Beelzebubs squatting in […]
Sour-grapes agreement
Michael Olneck and Peter Sacks turn petty in letters to the editor about Diane Ravitch that the New York Times printed today. Wow. I agree with Ravitch on a number of things and disagree with her on a number of things, some of which is in our area of expertise (history of education) and some […]
Additional thoughts on performance pay politics
An addendum to my entry earlier this morning: I think that there is a politically-robust rationale for performance-pay policies, but it’s not at the level of incentives usually used as the justification. The more plausible rationale for performance-pay policies is at the level of public-sector accountability: most people with jobs do not expect identical salaries or […]