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300 booing is somehow more important than 10,000 delegates
Former Hill staffer Charles Barone wrote early this morning that a video of Barack Obama’s speech to the NEA Representative Assembly last week was being watched closely by “Congressional staff and education policy folks.” Barone highlights a point in the speech where Obama says he is in favor of performance pay and where you can […]
I was manifest(o)ly wrong
Several days ago, I echoed Steve Diamond‘s argument that the dueling manifestoes this week are related to “the battle for the soul of Barack Obama.” Larry Mishel took me to task in comments, and I will now publicly apologize, since David Brooks has now made the same point Diamond and I did. In his Manichean […]
Shared responsibilities for children I
I had intended to blog about the responsibilities of schools for a few weeks, since Harry Brighouse responded last month to April’s Richard Rothstein-Rick Hess(-and-others) debate and Matthew Yglesias responded a week later to Ezra Klein’s comments on education and the economy. I’ve been swamped by other things and am writing this first entry (of […]
Missing out of the action, still
I’m swamped by work, so I’m afraid I’m going to be missing the party today on A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, the collaborative statement on education policy headed up by the Education Policy Institute. Eduwonkette praises the statement. Richard Lee Colvin cautiously praises the emphasis on early childhood education while noting that it is […]
The test-prep nightmare
Over at Ed Sector’s blog, former ES intern Danny Rosenthal describes how a test-prep nightmare unfolded in his Texas school. Towards the beginning of the entry, he writes, I’m OK with test prep. When standardized tests are well-crafted, as they are in my state, teachers should use tests to shape their classroom instruction. Done thoughtfully, […]