Indoctrinate U – No screenings
So I went to the Indoctrinate U website on screening locations and dates this morning and … there’s nothing there yet.
News item: Oregon Department of Education falls off continental shelf
According to a quick Google News search, no paper outside Oregon has picked up the story about the testing disaster in the state. Not Ed Week, nor any of the metro dailies. Wow. For the reporters who read this blog (all 1.5 of you), um, er, … isn’t the contracting controversy and the massive disruption enough […]
Emory talk April 4 on accountability and expertise
I’ll be in Atlanta in a few weeks to talk about School Accountability and the Problem of Professional Expertise. The specifics: 11:30am -1:00 pmRoom 206, Tarbutton HallEmory University (map) Sociology, History, and Educational Studies are sponsoring my visit, and I’m delighted to have the chance to talk about my work.
Reporters do hard work: School consolidation isn’t the golden goose
Kudos to Scott Elliott and William Hershey for doing their homework for yesterday’s article on school Consolidation: Savings may be fleeting in the Dayton Daily News. The article was about budgets, but there is also some nice research on The Influence of Scale on School Performance by Bob Bickel and Craig Howley from 1998 in Education Policy Analysis Archives.