Eight days to read 400+ pages
Time to call BS on George Miller and Buck McKeown: the release of an initial draft of NCLB’s reauthorization was accompanied by a letter saying the public would have eight days to comment. I guess that they gave us a day beyond a week to accomodate the Labor Day holiday. So much for wanting public input. […]
Parents change their minds on teaching to the test
Since 2002, the annual fall release of results from the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of public attitudes towards public education has become increasingly focused on NCLB. Today’s release (hat tip) is no exception, and my guess is that most reporters will run with the results of the first section on NCLB and accountability. My nomination […]
Bloggy bon mots
First, from Kevin Carey: [W]e’ve reached the point where people are actually arguing, with a straight face, that the real crisis in American education is the shameful neglect–the injustice–of how we educate smart white men. Next, from Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor): Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday’s department picnic consumed this afternoon: […]
Don’t get mad; get historiographical
The New York Times preview of Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms has prompted a flurry of responses by people who haven’t yet read the book. Hrrmrmrmrm… Obviously, it’s touched a nerve among historians, perhaps moreso than the flurry responding to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. Both books are orthogonal looks at the “rise […]
Today’s priorities
By Sherman Dorn on August 28, 2007
On the agenda today: working on my promotion packet and on Education Policy Analysis Archives.
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