NCLB reauthorization blog at Ed Week
There’s a new Ed Week blog: David Hoff’s NCLB: Act II, entirely about reauthorization. In many ways, this is a wise focus for an education beat blog. Several other blogs have died out when key reporters have moved on, as they typically do after some (relatively short)period of time. Having a blog with a relatively clear […]
Volunteers for Florida Education Wars
[Corrected July 14: HT.]The application period has closed, and the following have tossed their hat into the ring for Florida’s Commissioner of Ed Spot: Dannett Babb G Ellis Gary Henry Hastings Robert Jennings John Jones, Jr. James Kador Emanuel J Klimis Joseph Marinelli Joseph A Molloy William J Moloney John O’Sullivan, Jr. Simon Priest Joram […]
Read the law, Inky editorial board!
So the Philly Inquirer’s editorial board thinks No Child Left Behind should include graduation rates? (HT: NEA’s NCLB blog.) AYP already does: … [AYP] includes graduation rates for public secondary school students (defined as the percentage of students who graduate from secondary school with a regular diploma in the standard number of years) … (1111(B)(2)(c)(vi)) Wince. Wince. […]
Objectivists objected to?
FIRE‘s Tara Sweeney succinctly describes the problems with Ashland University’s denial of tenure to classicist John Lewis. Ashland University was perfectly happy to take a $100K gift from the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. When institutional leaders are willing to take the money and run, claims that special institutional missions trump lay notions of academic […]
At work on Saturday
By Sherman Dorn on July 14, 2007
I have a bunch of things to catch up on, mostly with EPAA and teaching, so I’m here at my office. But don’t worry: as a reward for reading my blog, you get a video!
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