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Sixth anniversary present for NCLB
So the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has revived the 2005 “unfunded mandate” NCLB lawsuit, and here is where things get interesting, because the original complaint is an interesting argument about statutory limits to the power of the purse, tied specifically to NCLB language that lifted mandates that were not paid for. Given the language […]
Ted Kennedy and frames: 51 to go
Last Thursday, I recklessly created a set of predictions for major 2008 education stories and in the top item (on NCLB) wrote, If I were a senior member of an education committee, I’d work throughout the year to establish some consensus that would hold at least reasonably well no matter what the results of the […]
Guesting on Edwize!
I’ve gone and committed guest blogging over at the UFT blog Edwize. The gist of the argument is that Joel Klein’s pulling a Microsoft-like maneuver with accountability. And he’s the guy who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust violations.
Waiting for the criticism of Winerip
Michael Winerip reports tomorrow on a new ETS report by Paul Barton and Richard Coley, The Family: America’s Smallest School. Shades of Moynihan’s response to Coleman, anyone? (And does anyone else know the reference for that?) I expect the blogs next week will be full of criticisms, at least of Winerip’s reporting if not the […]
Whose values would be valued in a neoliberal education world: Michelle Rhee’s or Marc Dean Millot’s?
Marc Dean Millot explains why he’s a critic of DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee (hat tip), and here’s the key paragraph: What I see in Chancellor Rhee’s approach, abetted, permitted or endorsed by Mayor Fenty, is 1) insensitivity and arrogance towards others, combined with 2) a reliance on fear to control staff, and 3) a considerable […]