Politician’s logic on school reform
According to the St. Pete Times Gradebook, the Florida House education committee chair is interested in mandating single-sex classrooms and uniforms for low-rated schools: “Something has to be done to improve D and F schools. What we’re doing now is not enough.” As fans of Yes, Prime Minister‘s Antony Jay would recognize, this is politician’s […]
Shameless book plugs
If you visit my home page, you’ll now see links to a brief bio as well as to separate pages describing the four books I’ve written or co-edited: Creating the Dropout Schools as Imagined Communities* Education Reform in Florida* Accountability Frankenstein If my guess is right, the latest two books will be appearing in press […]
Arizona legislators want historians to stop talking about Brown v. Board of Education
John Wilson points out the obvious flaws in Arizona SB 1612, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz’s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to … Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support […]
Parsing growth and grossing the Parthenon
Kevin Carey criticizes Leo Casey‘s take on growth measures to evaluate teacher effectiveness. Casey cited a 2003 RAND Corp. study which cast doubt on the use of student-achievement growth measures to evaluate teachers (something pushed by the Aspen Commission).
Hot cocoa
By Sherman Dorn on February 16, 2007
We’re expecting an Arctic mass coming through the Gulf and to Florida overnight, so it might be freezing overnight, but right now it’s a Florida-freezing but everywhere-else-toasty 50 F. In sympathy with everyone who’s reading this from snow country, and because I have a head cold while trying to ignore my e-mail and finish a […]
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