Miami Herald "legacy" piece on Jeb Bush
Marc Caputo has a smart article, Exam has changed how teachers teach, on the FCAT. He points out the double standard on accountability (how voucher schools are not accountable in the same way) and how Jeb Bush can be considered an education policy hero if only kids graduated high school at the end of fourth […]
Why did some New York charter-school proponents decline a grand compromise?
I’m generally not a fan of conspiracy theories, for a variety of reasons: they tend to be untestable (conspiracy theorists can generally rework their claims within half a second of being shown counterevidence), they tend to ignore alternative hypotheses, they tend to lack crucial evidence of contiguity (i.e., that the pieces of the supposed conspiracy […]
The "New" Commission and Jurgen Herbst
Achieve, Inc.–National Center on Education and the Economy smackdown program notes: Has anyone else noticed that the redesign recommendations of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce are just a wee bit inconsistent with Achieve Inc.’s American Diploma Project? End high school as we know it at the end of grade 10 […]
Indiana Governor Daniels lays down a marker on higher ed
Mitch Daniels’ new proposal to lease the lottery to benefit higher ed may well be doomed in the legislature, but it’s one of the few recent examples of efforts to increase higher-education funding in some structural way. The last time I saw something like this was Georgia’s creation of the HOPE scholarship from a lottery, something […]
"New" Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, Old Hat
All the buzz this weekend about the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce will probably damp down fairly quickly, for a few reasons: It’s so mind-bogglingly “new” and “fresh” that it has the same title as what produced America’s Choice with “New” in front of it. It’s so mind-bogglingly “new” […]