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Helen Ladd’s common-sense approach
I’m biased because I’ve made the same recommendations: In a late January Ed Week commentary I should have pointed to earlier, the Duke University professor says we should be Rethinking the Way We Hold Schools Accountable.
On excuses for unintended consequences
Oh, my: I head out of town for a week, and when I get back there’s a trail of tears blogs on curriculum narrowing: Charles Barone, January 17 Robert Pondiscio, January 18 Eduwonkette, January 18 Eduwonk, January 17-18 Eduwonkette, February 4 Eduwonk, February 6 Ken DeRosa, February 6 Robert Pondiscio, February 7 Joanne Jacobs, February […]
Probably not what Tallahassee or Beltway policy wonks intended
So some Florida teachers were fired because they were abusing students, letting a classroom get out of hand, not being prepared … but the state has forced the reinstatement of the teachers because the districts did not rely on test scores to make the personnel decisions. Can someone explain to me how this makes sense?
One more follow-up on Kennedy/Miller endorsement and NCLB politics
Just one more datum on speculation about the Kennedy and Miller endorsements of Obama mean for NCLB (little, I’ve said before). Let’s suppose for a moment that all this is true, and that the stars are lining up behind Obama from the Democratic Forces for NCLB. If you believe that and the bundling hypothesis about […]
Matt Miller’s fallacy
I must have had a busy month to wait several weeks before correcting the record on Matt Miller’s Atlantic article, First, Kill All the School Boards. The real problem, he says, is all of those selfish, parochial school board members and the unions who manipulate them. He paints a romantic picture of Horace Mann, repeats […]