Post-Bush education reform politics emerging
So what’s with Morton Kondracke’s column, which appeared in today’s Detroit News (and presumably elsewhere)? Andrew Rotherham thinks the combination of financial reforms with performance-pay for teachers is the germ of a Grand Coalition on reforms. Maybe. Me, I notice there’s nothing in there about school-level accountability, the heart of NCLB. Change in topics? Maneuvering […]
Boiling down the stratification literature
With a new doctoral student this fall, I advised that we arrange an independent reading course on stratification and institutions, because there is no doctoral-level course right now that fits the bill, and the breadth of topics pushed me to figure out the essential introduction to stratification (as one of four topics for the semester). […]
In which I mention John Lombardi, Philip Kotler, and Ernest Boyer in the same paragraph
Today’s John Lombardi column at Inside Higher Ed continues a discussion of the tensions of higher education that I had described a week before. Lombardi uses a marketing metaphor to explain how tuition cost-shifting over the past generation has pushed colleges and universities to cater more to students. He does so far more effectively than […]