Increasing graduation, part III
I've discussed in-school issues in two earlier entries on increasing graduation (part I, part II). This morning, I'll write a bit on the historical push-pull relationship between schools and labor markets. To focus entirely on what happens inside a school does not fully explain the trends in high school attendance over the past century. Teen […]
The subtler points of charter schools and teachers unions
So I’m coming late to the “party” on the firing of Nichole Byrne Lau from a New York charter school. (More discussion by Leo Casey, AFT’s NCLBlog, Andrew Rotherham, Joe Williams, and Sara Mead.) There are a few aspects here that haven’t been covered yet, I think:
The trouble with Kevin Barrett
So after considerable pressure by politicians and talk radio, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will not be summarily dismissing religious studies adjunct Kevin Barrett, who believes that 9/11 was a conspiracy of non-religious, Machievellian-Straussian cynics who believe that hatred and hostility are what move the world. After the provost’s statement, Barrett appeared on Fox News’s Hannity […]
Increasing graduation, Part II
Last week, I did not include one important idea in discussing ways to increase graduation with in-school steps: credit-recovery programs, to allow students to earn high-school credits in a more intensive environment. Unfortunately, while the idea sounds good in abstract, I haven't seen any substantive evaluative research, just anecdotal stories or research in a credit-recovery […]
Spam translated into Valley Speak
By Sherman Dorn on July 10, 2006
While I’m recovering from a weekend camping trip, I’ll provide a translation of info-service spam e-mail into Valley Speak (my high school cohort’s putative SoCal lingo) via the inevitably flawed but fun internet filter: After readin’ your blog, fer shure, it is clear that education is like wow! an issue you care about. As your […]
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