Bewildering misinterpretation of union position on merit pay/incentive pay
I’m confused: Kevin Carey identifies an off-the-wall statement of the Nashville teachers union leader in an article on an incentive-pay experiment in the district and interprets it as outright opposition to incentive pay: to get a sense of just how much some local teachers union officials hate the idea of merit pay… But the article […]
A Celtic love spoon for No Child Left Behind?
I know that the traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood, but do you really think a Celtic love spoon is right for NCLB, and what would be a better gift? (Update: One colleague’s suggestion: a baseball bat.) With the fifth anniversary of the law’s signing in 2002 (but it’s called the No Child Left Behind […]
Lack of perspective at the American Historical Association
Yesterday was eventful at the third day of the American Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta but not in a good way. Police arrested Tufts faculty member Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for jaywalking and put him in jail until the prosecutors dropped charges, embarrassed. The AHA business meeting failed to approve a strongly-worded measure opposing campus speech […]
EdWeek and marketing
Michael Kirst’s analysis of this year’s Quality Counts from Education Week seems absolutely on target: they wanted to do something more ambitious, partly because they now have Chris Swanson and partly because they didn’t want to do the same ol’ analysis of K-12 policies. The clincher on the marketing gig is the tagline at the top […]
Situational attention deficit
By Sherman Dorn on January 5, 2007
In the last day, I’ve had the worst problems concentrating on any task for more than about 10 minutes at a time. Part may be a bit of a cold: I have the standard slight bone-weariness I associate with a cold, plus a touch of congestion. Part may be induced by lack of sleep: I […]
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